Bi-Weekly Newsletter                                                                                 November 13, 2014
In This Issue:
  • MWM TownHall
  • Save the Date:
  • MWM Global News
  • MWM Events & Calendar
  • Call to Action
  • Women in STEM News
  • Resources / Awards
  • Engage with MWM! 
Million Women Mentor Events & Calendar:
 
December 4
Million Women Mentors Town Hall:
State Partners Update to the Nation
Click here to RSVP

January 2015
National Mentoring Month

January 8
MWM One Year Anniversary

January 13
Leadership Council Meeting

March 8 & 9
International MWM Announcements
 
March 23 - 27 
MWM States Week
 
March 23 
Leadership Council Meeting
 
March 24 
MWM Conference and Recognition Day
Women in STEM  
Resources/Awards: 

Campaign for Science and Engineering 
Improving Diversity in STEM
Access HERE  
 
Pledge To Mentor 
Pledge Card 
Access HERE 

 

Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Rolls Out Leadership Awards
Series of leadership awards to recognize the leaders advancing opportunities for women in the building industry 
Access HERE  

Women in STEM:
Realizing the Potential
This white paper will give you credible insight and facts for your use. This key document was developed with our lead technology partner TCS.
 Download HERE

Action Guide and Toolkit
Million Women Mentors
20 Hours of Mentoring
 Download HERE

  

100 Women Leaders in STEM 
In celebration of women role models in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), STEMconnector™ published in hard copy and online its inaugura
Access HERE

100 Diverse Leaders in STEM
Access HERE
 
Teach Thought
40 Important STEM Resources For Women
Access HERE

  Office of Science and
Technology Policy 
 Women in STEM: Fact sheets & Reports
Download HERE
 
STEM Mentoring
How to find a Mentee? 
Access HERE 

STEM Mentoring 
How to find a Mentor? 
Access HERE 
Call to Action
I/We Pledge to mentor a girl or young woman in STEM with 20 hours of skills based mentoring. I will email my pledge to
MWM@STEMconnector.org
or post it live at
Once you sign up and pledge to mentor girls and young women in STEM at 
www.MillionWomenMentors.org you've made your pldedge officially count as one in a Million. The next step is to find your mentee!

We are at the 170,000 mark in pledges to mentor, thank you! Already over 100 corporate and non-profit partners have signed on to actively engage in mentoring young woman and girls in STEM skills. Look for resources and mentor opportunities on our interactive website.
       
MWM In the News

When Talmesha Richards graduated with her Ph.D. in cellular and molecular medicine from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine two years ago, she felt a personal obligation to encourage other girls to pursue a career in science, technology, engineering or math. "I know the power of a mentor. I'm a testimony to it," says the 33-year-old who now works as a director of project partnerships for STEMconnector, an organization that connects corporations with community organizations to invest in STEM training. Richards can recall mentors as early as 3rd and 8th grades who helped encourage her in math and science.  

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Million Women Mentors Town Hall:
State Partners Update to the Nation 
Million Women Mentors State Partners TownHall to the Nation
December 4th 
2:00-3:00 pm EST
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Join the Million Women Mentors team and several key leaders in the State Initiatives while we do a "deep dive" into our state initiatives including sharing best practices, reporting on success, and hearing from several key partners of the movement!

Featured Speaker: Jana Rieker, Vice President, Director of Sales and Marketing, Bankers Trust  

Jana Rieker is Vice President, Director of Sales and Marketing at Bankers Trust, based in Des Moines, Iowa. She joined the Bank in May 2010. Prior to joining Bankers Trust, she served as Marketing Sales Manager at Meredith Corporation for ten years.  
 

Rieker earned a Bachelor's of Liberal Arts degree in Business and Communications from Central College in Pella, Iowa, in 1994; and earned her Masters of Business Administration from the University of Iowa in 1998.

 

Rieker is the Co-Chair of Million Women Mentors - Iowa initiative for STEM. In addition, she is active in a number of professional, educational, and charitable organizations, including: Executive Committee - Kingdom Cares International; Board Member - Employee and Family Resources; Board of Directors - West Des Moines Girls Softball; Member - Central College Accounting, Economics and Management Board; and has held a number of roles supporting United Way as Corporate Campaign Chair (Des Moines Register, 1995-96), Corporate Committee Member and Emerging Leadership Initiative (Meredith Corporation 1999-2008), and the United Way Women's Leadership Connection (Bankers Trust). She is a member of the Des Moines Network of Executive Women and a Program Chair for the IWLC - Iowa Women Lead Change. Since 1996, Rieker has served as a part-time fitness and kick-boxing instructor for the YMCA of Greater Des Moines and the Healthy Living Center. Rieker was named Business Record 40 Under Forty (2011).

 

Born and raised in Iowa, Rieker has a strong affinity to her home state. Currently, she resides in Clive, Iowa, with her husband, Mike, and their son, Grant (13), and a Daughter, Meredith (10).

 

Featured Speaker: Krista Ferguson, Senior Ethics and Compliance Advisor, Private Attorney, Principal Financial Group

 

Krista serves on the executive council for MWM-IA state effort. She previously served as in-house counsel at Principal for over seven years supporting business areas including procurement, life insurance and information security/IT as well as a variety of subject matters including electronic signatures, privacy, and cyber security.
 






Featured Speaker: Lisa Reaney, Aviation Safecty Inspector and Transportation Planner, Tennessee Department of Transportation

Lisa is a native of Wilson County, Tennessee and shares that her love of aviation started before she could even walk!  She grew up in the tiny town of Lebanon, Wilson County TN at the Lebanon Municipal Airport (KM54) always following her father around and trying to help "work" on airplanes. She attributes her love for all things aviation and STEM to her father, her great uncle, and great aunt, who operated the airport locally for many years.

By vocation she works as an Aviation Safety Inspector and Transportation Planner for Tennessee Department of Transportation.  However, her true passion lies in Aerospace and Aviation education. She is excited to help push forward the Million Women Mentors movement and serves as member of Women in Aviation (WIA), Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, and the Castle Heights Military Academy Alumni Association.
Save the Date!
 

Leveraging Mentoring to Build the STEM Pipeline

As more and more companies leverage mentoring to generate youth interest in STEM careers, the 2015 National Mentoring Summit will once again serve as an invaluable resource for sharing, learning and networking for corporate attendees engaged in youth mentoring. The Corporate & Philanthropic Track at the National Mentoring Summit is open to private sector professionals and individuals representing philanthropic investors. It is especially valuable for those focused on workforce development, corporate social responsibility, social impact, employee volunteerism and human resources. Corporate and philanthropic support and engagement in quality youth mentoring is a critical asset in expanding the mentoring effect to strengthen our communities and build the future workforce to support a STEM economy. This is your opportunity to enhance the great work you are doing! The 2015 National Mentoring Summit will take place January 28-30, 2015 at the Renaissance Washington, DC, Downtown. Check out the details and register today.
MWM Global News   
The Women, Engineering, Science, and Technology (WEST) Symposium Promotes Women In Science (Asian Scientist)
On Friday last week, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) held a public symposium showcasing some of the best female scientific talent from Singapore and abroad.

The Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology symposium, or WEST symposium, was held in conjunction with Marie Curie's 147th birthday. Curie was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize and the first person to win the prestigious award in two different categories-physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911.

 

While women make up about half of the world's population, only 24 percent of the scientists and engineers in the United States and the European Union are women; in Singapore, that figure stands at 30 percent.

 

Professor Ada E. Yonath, who was the first woman in 45 years to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2009, was the keynote speaker at the WEST symposium. A crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome (cells which help make proteins), she is also a role model for female scientists having received the L'Or�al-UNESCO For Women in Science Award in 2008.



Women in STEM News
Women in STEM
Across the entire country women and young girls are participating in programs that expose them to STEM careers. Through mentoring, our partners and top corporations are working to increase their interest and passion in STEM fields.  
Hands-On Learning and Mentorship Are Encouraging More Women In The STEM Pipeline (The Atlantic) 
The movement to engage girls with the sciences is gaining traction across the nation-and laying the foundation for a stronger economy.
 
Hands-On Learning and Mentorship Are Putting More Women in the STEM Pipeline
Hands-On Learning and Mentorship Are Putting More Women in the STEM Pipeline
     
The NASCAR driver is promoting women in STEM with a special addition to her vehicle.
Nascar Driver Danica Patrick's Car Promotes STEM Edcuation
Danica Patrick thrives as a woman in a man's world.

The 32-year-old - the first female driver to lead at the Indy 500 - is one of the most successful and well-known women in the history of racing.

 

She didn't get there by stooping to gender stereotypes.

 

"If it's something you're really interested in, then you're going to have the confidence and commitment and drive to make yourself successful," she tells U.S. News. "If it's something you really love, nothing should stand in your way."
- Danica Patrick

 

These days, the NASCAR driver pays that attitude forward by empowering a younger generation of women to forge their own paths in the male-dominated arenas of science, technology, engineering, and math.  

 

Women in STEM can learn to become scientific leaders by taking a leaf out of the corporate skills handbook, says a panel at the World Economic Forum

From left to right: Lawrence Krauss, Justine Cassell,
Ivana Gadjanski, Mande Holford, Tony Pan and Diva Tommei

Scientists may not readily identify themselves as entrepreneurs, but a comparison can indeed be made between the corporate business sector and the scientific enterprise. Are their skills that women in business have that women in science can acquire and benefit from? The intersection of STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering and Math), Innovation, Business and Women were recently addressed on a panel  at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Summer Davos meeting in Tianjin China.

The reasons women are lacking in STEM industries and academia are multiple and complex, however one major hurdle we discussed is the lack of business knowledge among the women STEM scientists.

Companies Promote STEM Through Collaboration, Connecting STEM to Real Life (U.S. News)
Verizon, Cisco and others help young women engage in hands-on STEM activities and mentorships outside the classroom.
 
Amanda Chen, left, and Sheree Lewis participate in the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program at Goldman Sachs in New York. 
The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics Spring 2014 report, "STEM 101: Intro to Tomorrow's Jobs," states that jobs in occupations related to STEM are projected to increase to more than 9 million between 2012 and 2022, resulting in growth of approximately 1 million more jobs over 2012 employment levels.

To address this skills gap, the New York Academy of Sciences launched the Global STEM Alliance, a global private-public partnership with industry, academic and educational institutions, government, and the nonprofit sector. Through a virtual platform, the initiative will pair students and mentoring STEM experts from around the world.
 
Ingersoll-Rand hosts 43 Project Scientist girls at Trane facility in Charlotte (Charlotte Business Journal)

 
Project Scientist girls build a toy car using a "method sheet."
Ingersoll-Rand gave 43 girls a glimpse of what it would be like to work in a science, engineering, technology or mathematics with recent activities at it Trane facility in Charlotte. The girls are taking part in Project Scientist, a Charlotte effort to identify young women who have aptitude for STEM subjects. During the day, students designed product-marketing materials, used their analytical thinking to estimate the weight of Trane products and used a "method sheet" to assemble a toy car.

Beaumont Team takes International Manufacturing Technology Summit (IMTS) by Storm (National Robotics League
 
Beaumont School's varsity robotics team traveled to Chicago, Illinois to display and demonstrate their robot at the International Manufacturing Technology Summit (IMTS) and the SmartForce Summit. We were invited by Maureen Carruthers of the National Robotics League to this biannual conference that showcases the latest technological advances in the field of manufacturing. Companies from around the world exhibited their newest products and processes. Operating in conjunction with professionals, SmartForce Student Summit exposed students of all ages to potential STEM careers in manufacturing.