In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Mid-Valley STEM-CTE Hub has launched #STEMLikeAWoman for the month of March. We’re launching this social media campaign to bring awareness regarding the gender gap in STEM careers.

We’re kicking off #STEMLikeAWoman on March 8, International Women’s Day. We’ll kick it off with social media posts tagging 500 Women Scientists Corvallis. From there, we want you to tag a woman in your life who works in or is studying to work in a STEM career. Please use the #STEMLikeaWoman in your post to help bring awareness and to take part in the campaign.

To make it more exciting and to provide some extra motivation, the Mid-Valley STEM-CTE Hub will donate $5 (up to $500) for every #STEMLikeaWoman tag to 500 Women Scientists Corvallis!

Visit our website for more information and visit any of our social media sites below to take part in #STEMLikeaWoman:

Barbara Hanley is an Environmental & Occupational Epidemiologist. She works for Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) as a Resource Associate at the Institute of Occupational Health Sciences. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental & Occupational Health at Oregon State University (OSU).

As an epidemiologist, her work is focused on the evaluation of chemical policy effectiveness and translating exposure science to improve policies focused on protecting human health.

"I like the slogan of the Closing the Gap program “girls cannot be what they cannot see." That was true for me. I wanted to be an astronaut, but there were no women astronauts when I graduated high school and started college so I chose to go to medical school because that's what people told me I should do if I wanted to work in a scientific field. Today, there are women in almost every field I can think of … astronaut, doctor, mechanic, soldier, Vice President!"

To learn more, please check out our entire interview with Barbara!

If you're interested in participating in any or all of these opportunities, please fill out this brief interest form. Thank you for your consideration!

Our Closing the Gap podcast has launched! For our first episode, we interviewed Britney Cawrse (our featured role model for February).

You can listen right on our website, our Podbean page, and from there you can also subscribe via Spotify, Google Podcast, and very soon on iTunes.

Oregon ACTE is taking registrations for their Spring Conference (taking place on April 1 & 2). This year’s event, while virtual, will offer keynote speakers as well as informative and timely break-out sessions.

Registration is $150 and gives you access to all recorded sessions for up to one year after the event. You will need to have a membership that is active through January 2022, and if not, you will be asked to extend. That membership cost is $100 annually, which also gives you access to online professional development training which is on our web portal.

The Mid-Valley STEM-CTE Hub is offering a limited number of scholarships (for the conference and membership) to CTE teachers in our region (Linn & Benton counties). If you're interested in taking advantage of this opportunity, please contact us by Monday, March 22.

CTE Signing Day is quickly approaching! Participation in signing day will guarantee a spot for a graduating high school senior for Fall 2021 in one of many Career Technical Education Programs on offer at LBCC. Learn more and get signed up here.

Interested students need to register by April 1st, and the event will take place on April 15th.