Check out AAUW California's Tech Trek Science Camp for Girls!
Assessing Women in Engineering
SWE-AWE offers exportable assessment instruments, literature resources and capacity building tools for Women in Engineering and similar programs including surveys, data collection templates, capacity building tools and national benchmarking.
Tech Bridge
Want to talk with girls about STEM fields? Techbridge, a program for girls in technology, science and engineering, originally funded in part by a grant from the Oakland-Piedmont CA branch of AAUW, has developed a guide to help role models, corporations and educators plan effective classroom visits and worksite field trips.
a video produced by The Center for Women & Information Technology (CWIT), uses the power of media to give young people, particularly girls and young women, a very positive impression of the career opportunities available in information technology (IT) and science-related fields where technology plays a major role.
The National Acadamies Press Publications
Educating the Engineer of 2020offers recommendations on how to enrich and broaden engineering education so graduates are better prepared to work in a constantly changing global economy.
Beyond Bias and Barriersexplains that eliminating gender bias in academia requires immediate overarching reform, including decisive action by university administrators, professional societies, federal funding agencies and foundations, government agencies, and Congress.
Changing the Conversationprovides actionable strategies and market-tested messages for presenting a richer, more positive image of engineering.
There are many projects devoted to increasing the number of girls interested in STEM across the country, and the premise of the National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) is that these programs could be more effective if they worked together.
Often, individuals working on one "girls in STEM" project are unaware of similar projects nearby. The goal of the NGCP is to facilitate collaboration among projects so that they can share resources, work together, and learn from one another. A big part of the National Girls Collaborative Project is the creation of a Program Directory of these girl-serving projects. You can find the Program Directory here.
The Program Directory allows organizations interested in creating more opportunities for girls in STEM to register and learn about similar organizations in their area. Another big part of the NGCP is the mini-grant program. NGCP will make $1000 mini-grants available to collaborations of 2 or more participating programs who apply through the Program Directory.
For example, if one organization has meeting space with computers available, and another organization has mentors and girls available, the two organizations both register in the program directory and then apply for a $1000 mini-grant to help pay for the costs of their joint event.
The NGCP is now accepting applications for mini-grants! Click here for more information on mini-grants.
Click here for a list of mini-grants awarded from September, 2007 - May, 2008.
The NGCP will also provide research-based promising practices in informal learning environments and evaluation and assessment to the participating programs to help further advance the work of these girl-serving projects.
AAUW members across the country are acting as Regional Liaisons for the National Girls Collaborative Project. These Regional Liaisons help the people involved in the NGCP to make connections — to one another, to resources on gender equity, and to AAUW.
2007 Regional Liaisons Michele DesAutels - New England Region (MA, NH, RI, VT) Carolyn Hayek - Mountain Pacific Region (AK, HI, ID, MT, OR, WA) Jennifer McDaniel - South Atlantic Region (FL, GA, PR, NC, SC, WV) Dot McLane - Middle Atlantic 2 Region (CT, NJ, NY, PA) Elizabeth Vandenburg - Middle Atlantic 1 Region (VA, MD, DC, DE) Marie Wolbach - California
2008 Regional Liaisons Letha Granberry - Southeast Central 2 Region (TN) Ellen Nolan - Southeast Central 1 Region (KY) Geraldine Oberman - Great Lakes Region (IL, IN, MI, OH, and WI) Kristian Trampus - Southwest Central 2 Region (TX) Anja Whittington - Maine
For contact information for any of the above Regional Liaisons, please contact AAUW's Helpline at helpline@aauw.org or 1-800-326-2289.
The National Girls Collaborative Project is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Research on Gender in Science and Engineering Award HRD-0631766.
Working on a project focused on girls in STEM? Please register your project with the National Girls Collaborative Project! You can register your project here.
Want to evaluate how well your STEM program is working? Assessing Women in Engineering has free surveys available for the girls (and boys) participating in your program. Register online and look at the Pre-College Recruiting Surveys to find pre-program surveys, surveys to give to participants immediately after the program, and surveys to send out further down the road. These tools can help you improve your branch's STEM program!
Learn more about the National Girls Collaborative Project The mission of the National Girls Collaborative Project is to advance the agenda in gender equity for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Resources that can be found on the Web site (program directory, archived webcasts, mini-grant information, relevant links, monthly e-newsletter, evaluation resources, and informal learning resources).
AAUW research reports on girls in science, technology, engineering, and math
Under the Microscope: A Decade of Gender Equity Projects in the Sciences examines and analyzes more than 400 gender equity projects specifically aimed at increasing the participation of girls and women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The report reveals trends in the development and support of these projects during the last decade and offers recommendations for strengthening the advancement of gender equity in the sciences for the future. The research for the report was funded by a National Science Foundation grant and conducted by Yasmin Kafai and a team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles.
As violent electronic games and dull programming classes turn off more and more girls to the computer culture, schools need to change the way information technology is used, applied, and taught in the nation's classrooms, according to the report, Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age, published by the AAUW Educational Foundation. Free copies of this report and a new video and guide are available. In conjunction with Tech-Savvy, AAUW's Tech Check is a guide to help schools assess the technology opportunities they offer female students.
Often, individuals working on one "girls in STEM" project are unaware of similar projects nearby. The goal of the NGCP is to facilitate collaboration among projects so that they can share resources, work together, and learn from one another. A big part of the National Girls Collaborative Project is the creation of a Program Directory of these girl-serving projects. You can 
For example, if one organization has meeting space with computers available, and another organization has mentors and girls available, the two organizations both register in the program directory and then apply for a $1000 mini-grant to help pay for the costs of their joint event. 
Under the Microscope: A Decade of Gender Equity Projects in the Sciences examines and analyzes more than 400 gender equity projects specifically aimed at increasing the participation of girls and women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The report reveals trends in the development and support of these projects during the last decade and offers recommendations for strengthening the advancement of gender equity in the sciences for the future. The research for the report was funded by a National Science Foundation grant and conducted by Yasmin Kafai and a team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles.
As violent electronic games and dull programming classes turn off more and more girls to the computer culture, schools need to change the way information technology is used, applied, and taught in the nation's classrooms, according to the report, Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age, published by the AAUW Educational Foundation. Free copies of this report and a new video and guide are available. In conjunction with Tech-Savvy, AAUW's