Million Girls Moonshot Monday: Taking Flight into Summer!

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Subject: Million Girls Moonshot Monday: Taking Flight into Summer!

Million Girls Moonshot picture of Dr. Ciara Sivels

In the Month of May we are taking flight into summer! As out-of-school time programs plan for and implement summer learning, be that for hybrid or in-person programming, this is a great time to focus on some of the building blocks of getting more girls engaged in STEM: the engineering mindset, role models, and family outreach.

Webinars

Representation Matters! Highlighting the IF/THEN Collection

Tuesday May 25th 2:00 - 3:00pm

Join IF/THEN Ambassadors in a conversation about representation and why it is important for girls to see role models in STEM. In this webinar, learn why representation matters and how to use the IF/THEN Collection to increase representation of women in STEM. You’ll hear from inspiring women STEM professionals who serve as IF/THEN Ambassadors. Resources from the IF/THEN Collection that support equity in STEM will be shared.

What is an Engineering Mindset?

Christine Cunningham

LISTEN TO RECORDING, USE POWERPOINT SLIDES IN TRAINING

Deep Dive into each Engineering Mindset Practice

Christine Cunningham

LISTEN TO RECORDING 1, RECORDING 2, RECORDING 3

Tell Us How Virginia Does STEM!

We need to hear from you on how you do STEM. Please join this important effort! Your answers will help us to better understand how we can best support programs statewide.

Everyone who completes the survey will have exclusive access to a webinar on engaging kids in hands-on engineering activities from home. Everyone who responds will be entered into a drawing for a $100 gift certificate.

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Million Girls Moonshot in Virginia

Congrats to Kala Sommerville of Computers4Kids in Charlottesville, Kimberly Kardelis of the Fairfax Middle School, Afterschool Program in Vienna, and Tina Harte of NASA in Hampton for being accepted into a national Community of Practice on Equity and Inclusion in STEM, where they will represent Team Virginia. This program offered through the Million Girls Moonshot will not only strengthen their programs, but also help guide the work of the Virginia Coalition for Equity In OST STEM, in which they are members.

Resources

Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month Role Model Profile Videos: Looking to feature some amazing AAPI women in STEM for this month's AAPI Heritage month? Check out these free profile videos of IF/THEN Ambassadors:

Long Profile Video of Samantha Porter

Twitter:

On-the-Job Video of Samantha Porter
Long Profile Video of Shyla Raghav
STEM Journey Video of Shyla Ragav
Long Profile Video of Anamita Guha
Short Profile Video of Anamita Guha

About VPOST Million Girls Moonshot Monday

VPOST is proud to be a part of the Million Girls Moonshot initiative, working to inspire and prepare the next generation of innovators by engaging one million more girls in STEM learning opportunities through afterschool and summer programs over the next five years. The Million Girls Moonshot is an initiative of the STEM Next Opportunity Fund.

VPOST, Moonshot Monday is our twice a month newsletter, arriving in your inbox every other Monday and filled with resources and opportunities to better engage girls in STEM. We will also have this information available on our Resource Exchange website, to make it easily available to you.

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