[Imc-radio] Gender in Technology Symposium invitation for the IMC

Wed Mar 10 13:40:43 CST 2004

Hi, IMC folks!

The Women in Engineering office at the University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign invites you and your members to participate in a free 
day-long practitioners' symposium on gender in the pre-college science, 
mathematics, and technology classroom Friday, April 23 2004 on the UIUC 
campus, featuring nationally-acclaimed AAUW educational researcher Dr. 
David Sadker (http://www.american.edu/sadker/bio.htm).

Extensive research has shown that formal and informal teacher preparatory 
programs rarely present future educators with information that will assist 
them in proactively addressing gender obstacles in their learning 
environments.

This statewide collaboration will bring together teachers, administrators, 
pre-certification students, tutors, volunteers, policy advocates, 
nontraditional media tech educators (hint!), and other interested 
individuals from throughout the state to develop practical skills that will 
enable them to more effectively encourage the potential of all students.

This is the first event of its type in the nation, and UIUC is proud to 
play host to such an important initiative. As members of our own community, 
we extend a special invitation to your members who work on educational 
outreach to take advantage of the day's events, and also welcome all other 
interested individuals to participate.

People from throughout Illinois will converge upon UIUC for this 
symposium.  We would like to be sure that members of our community who 
reach out to youth are aware of this rare opportunity in their own 
backyard.  Please help us with this. We hope to have many different local 
educators, administrators, and advocates take part in the day.

More information to follow, and a pdf of our symposium poster has been 
attached.  Please share it and this invitation with others you think might 
be interested in attending, and do feel free to contact me with any questions.

Symposium registration started on our web site this week.  Due to, among 
other things, Great White, space is very limited in all of the day's 
events.  Please visit soon to reserve your spot.

Thanks. Keep up the great work!

Aimee Rickman
WIE

* Please note: For those unable to attend the day's events, we have 
arranged to have Dr. Sadker appear as a guest on WILL am580 at 1pm that 
afternoon.  Dr. Sadker's work on classroom equity is wonderfully inspiring 
and practical. We are excited to have him reach many members of our 
community. *

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The Women in Engineering program at the University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign invites you to attend the first annual UIUC Symposium on 
Gender in the Science, Mathematics, and Technology Pre-College Classroom 
for current and pre-service educators, administrators, policy advocates, 
and stakeholders on Friday, April 23, 2004 on the UIUC campus.

Featuring AAUW researcher Dr. David Sadker 
(http://www.american.edu/sadker/bio.htm), and research from UIUC faculty 
members Dr. Dorothy Espelage, Dr. Karen Ferneding, and Dr. Fouad 
Abd-El-Khalick, this free practitioner-focused day-long event is aimed at 
providing future and current educators and stakeholders with important 
tools to encourage the potential of their female students within key 
academic areas.

As you are well aware, despite the promise shown by young women in science 
and mathematics during middle and high school, females continue to be 
dismally underrepresented in some STEM-focused colleges and professions.  A 
troubling nationwide trend exists in young women's dwindling presence in 
science and math classes throughout their high school years, with very few 
schools' high achieving females choosing to enroll in certain hard sciences 
in college.

Despite this, numerous research studies have shown that pre-service 
educators encounter little, if any, information during their college years 
that prepare them to effectively address gender-based obstacles in their 
future classrooms.   Thus, this symposium is aimed at providing current and 
future educators and stakeholders with important tools that will allow them 
to better understand and effectively encourage the potential all of their 
students within early science, mathematics, and technology classrooms.

The Women in Engineering program views Illinois primary and secondary 
classrooms' early support of females' potential in science and math as 
directly linked to our ability to attract more women into engineering at 
UIUC, as well as into many of UIUC's other SMET-related departments.  This 
symposium takes on a wide train-the trainer focus to positively impact the 
science, mathematics and technology pipelines, as well as the future of 
Illinois education.

Registration is required, and enrollment space is limited. However, 
generous campus sponsorship allows this important development opportunity 
to be free, and open to all in-state future and local educators, 
administrators, policy advocates, and stakeholders.

More information and registration is available 
at  http://www.wie.uiuc.edu/april2004genderconference.htm, or by contacting 
symposium director Aimee Rickman at arickman at uiuc.edu

We hope to see you in April!

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Aimee Rickman
Program Coordinator, Women in Engineering
G.A.M.E.S. Camp & Gender Symposium Director
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
206 Engineering Hall, MC-272
1308 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-3517
arickman at uiuc.edu
www.wie.uiuc.edu
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<http://www.wie.uiuc.edu/april2004genderconference.htm>UIUC Symposium on 
Gender in the Pre-College Science, Mathematics, and Technology Classroom
Friday, April 23, 2004
9am - 4:30pm
UIUC South Campus -- ACES Library and Temple Hoyne Buehl Hall
http://www.wie.uiuc.edu/april2004genderconference.htm

Co-sponsored by UIUC's <www.wie.uiuc.htm>Women in Engineering Program, 
<http://www.engr.uiuc.edu>College of Engineering , 
<http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/chem/>Department of Chemistry , 
<http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/chem_eng/>Department of Chemical and Biomolecular 
Engineering , <http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/>Department of Computer 
Science,  <http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EDPSY/>Department of Educational 
Psychology , <http://www.life.uiuc.edu/entomology/>Department of Entomology 
, <http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/%7Ehcd/>Department of Human and Community 
Development , <http://www.math.uiuc.edu/>Department of Mathematics , 
<http://www.womstd.uiuc.edu>Office of Gender and Women's Studies , 
<http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/>Office of Math, Science and Technology Education 
, <http://cdms.ds.uiuc.edu/>Center on Democracy in a Multiracial 
Society,  <http://www.library.uiuc.edu/wst/>Women and Gender Resources 
Library , <http://www.library.uiuc.edu>University Library , 
<http://www2.uiuc.edu/ro/ywca/>YWCA of the University of Illinois, as well 
as by the <http://www.aauw.org>American Association of University Women.

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Aimee Rickman
Program Coordinator, Women in Engineering
G.A.M.E.S. Camp & Gender Symposium Director
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
206 Engineering Hall, MC-272
1308 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-3517
arickman at uiuc.edu
www.wie.uiuc.edu
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