All girls who have attended camp are also invited back to the Mines campus each year for Alumni Day, where the girls get to participate in a full day of camp, tailored to their age.įor more information about Full STEM Ahead, visit the camp website. Past camp participants are also invited to attend additional sessions held in local schools, where they will get to work with Nexus Controls volunteers, learn more about STEM and try more hands-on activities. Throughout the school year, Nexus Controls leads a program called Full STEM, Full Year. Once camp is over, participants will be encouraged to continue to stay connected with the Full STEM Ahead initiative. If they have an interest, they should pursue it, and gender should not be a barrier.” “Exposing them to STEM now allows that creativity to blossom later in life. “Participants will have the chance to interact with women STEM scientists and engineers, which is not always accessible at that age,” Jackson said. We want to invest in the future development of young women to build this talent pipeline and strengthen the local STEM community.”īoth the camp’s hands-on activities and the opportunities to get to know and interact with the camp staff and presenters from Mines and Nexus Controls are valuable in piquing students’ interest in STEM, said Jessica Jackson, research assistant professor in chemistry at Mines. “Accessing a greater number of female applicants for our technical positions is critical to fueling this growth. “We are facing new technical challenges at Nexus Controls every day, and a diverse pool of ideas helps drive the innovation that supports business growth,” said Carly Blaes, Nexus Controls Lead Controls Engineer and a Mines alumna. The camp aims to encourage girls to consider careers in STEM fields where women have been historically underrepresented. Those activities range from programming a robot named Sparki to pouring metal in the Mines foundry to practicing suture techniques on a banana. features the award-winning Green Girls STEM curriculum. Over the three-day STEM camp, around 20 students entering eighth grade from D’Evelyn Junior/Senior High School and Alameda International Junior/Senior High School will participate in a large array of STEM activities. We take middle school students on outdoor adventures in parks and along waterways after school. Nexus Controls, a Baker Hughes business and Colorado-based company, is co-sponsoring the camp with Mines. And so, if we don't start exposing them at a young age, and especially our girls who are underrepresented in tech, we may not have our girls and young women coming into careers in the future,” said Zaja.Full STEM Ahead, a three-day summer camp giving Denver area middle school girls opportunities to try hands-on activities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, will be held at Colorado School of Mines this week from July 13-15. “Especially our young girls, many times we see that at a young age, they might not see enough other women that look like them in technology or STEM careers, and so they might not think that it's a path for them. It’s that hope that gives organizers, including STEM Outreach Assistant Director Stacy Zaja, the push to expose children to the field as early as possible. The focus is representation and accessibility, with students spending the day learning about artificial intelligence, by trying their skills through hands-on projects and interactive lectures. In a new partnership with the Milwaukee School of Engineering, Northwestern Mutual is hosting Girls + AI, where nearly 50 girls from Notre Dame Middle School get the chance to explore careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. MILWAUKEE - As part of Computer Science Education Week, a new initiative hopes to get the next generation of technology stars ready to take on the world, with workshops dedicated to all things STEM.
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