Our TxGCP eNewsletter arrives monthly in your inbox to learn about science, technology, engineering and math resources, educational opportunities and more around Texas and beyond!
June 2018
Request STEM Professionals for Classrooms/Programs!
We’re pushing STEM volunteer and mentor needs out to a wide network of STEM professionals on September 6th. If your classroom or organization has a need for a STEM volunteer or mentor (or a team of them!), enter your request into Texas STEM Connections by the morning of September 5th to be included. Find instructions for how to enter a request for a volunteer here.

Texas STEM Connections is a web-based tool that makes it easy for STEM professionals to connect with K-20 educators, classrooms, out of school time programs, and other volunteer opportunities. Professionals can share their skills and expertise to bring real-world, authentic learning opportunities to all our students helping to create the next generation of innovators. Through in-person matches and virtual sessions, professionals can help educators and program providers connect their students to the world of STEM. Together we can make a difference.
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SAVE THE DATE!
Friday, December 7, 2018
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Join the Texas Girls Collaborative Project for our second annual Texas Women and Girls in STEM Summit designed to share best practices, connect organizations and individuals, and showcase outstanding efforts to increase the number of girls in STEM and support the retention of women in STEM careers. STEM professionals and all who are engaged in education, outreach, recruitment, and/or retention of women and girls in STEM are invited to join in.

Information and registration coming soon!
June 11 - 14 in Austin, TX
June 18 - 21 in Sugar Land, TX
These workshops are intensive immersions in creative computing for K12 teachers, parents, and technology integrators. Our project-based approach supports computational thinking and STEAM learning and teaching. Learn to code as you explore and create projects using Scratch, Makey Makey, Hummingbird, micro:bit, Arduino, and a variety of other hardware and software platforms.

June 18 - 22, 2018
Austin, TX
The MathQuest Fellowship is a free program that will help teachers learn how to apply game
design principles to foster inquiry-based learning. Fellows will learn to tie games to their curriculum, integrate them into the classroom, create their own games and learner-centered design challenges, and assess learning outcomes.

June 22 & 23, 2018
Houston, TX
TECH IT OUT ROBOTICS is a high tech interactive learning experience where participants learn how to construct, code, collaborate and compete with a robot of their own design in small teams. While having fun, youth are engaged in teamwork, as well as computer science, problem solving using math, robot engineering design concepts and critical thinking. LEGO based robots are used in competitive events such as FIRST LEGO League and FIRST LEGO League Jr. USE CODE: Educators_Rock to save $50 off each workshop if you register before June 20.

July 27 & 28, 2018
Houston, TX
If you’re not familiar with the Maker Movement, it represents the growing community of inventors, designers, and tinkerers who come together to discuss and display what they’ve created. We are bring the Maker Movement to the classroom through our R.A.G.E Projects which include fun in Robotics, Aerospace, Green Energy and Engineering that excite students curiosity about STEM!
USE CODE: Educators_Rock to save $50 off each workshop if you register before June 20.

August 8 - 10, 2018
Palacios, TX
Calling all Informal Science Educators with an interest in connecting your audiences to water quality and aquaculture! There are some spaces still available in the Aquaculture Adventure workshop Aug 8-10th in Palacios, TX. Participants are responsible for their own travel to Palacios, but meals, lodging and a $200 stipend are provided as well as 20 hours of CPE credit.

Virtual
With the support of Google, this free resource includes a series of modules, webinars and hands-on training that will help you plan and prepare to integrate technology into your program. The toolkit will give you a strong foundation so you can provide students with powerful access to technology outside of classroom hours. Start learning now!
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June 18 - 21, 2018
UT Austin, Austin, TX
This workshop serves to remind us of the interconnectedness of the Geometry and Algebra curricula. Led by Dr. Mark Daniels, lead faculty for OnRamps Precalculus and College Algebra and UTeach Associate Director, this workshop provides inquiry based curriculum to enhance activities conducted in either the Algebra classroom or the Geometry classroom or both. The workshop also models and explains the use of inquiry methods to teach mathematics curriculum in general.

June 18 - 21, 2018
UT Austin, Austin, TX
This professional learning and development experience offers teachers of TEKS-based and Pre-AP Chemistry courses an opportunity to deeply explore the key concepts of Chemistry that echo through advanced high school and college courses. Teachers will engage in understanding the critical question of “Why?” to layer their content knowledge with Peer Instruction and student-centered pedagogy to promote student success in the Chemistry classroom. Lead faculty Dr. David Laude will emphasize the principles that scientists use so that their ability to do science is much easier.
Get Connected: K12 STEM Email Groups, Events & More
Join our K-12 STEM Outreach Google Groups! These email groups (open and moderated listservs) are all about sharing resources, information, events, volunteers, needs, and more with others reaching out to K-12 students aiming to excite them about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
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For those not in one of these areas who still want to receive information going out to all groups, join the  Texas K-12 STEM Outreach group. 
 
Contact  Tricia Berry for any specific regional requests or questions.
Let other know about the great programs you run! To find STEM programs across the country or to list your own, please visit    The Connectory
Find fabulous STEM role models in your area to show virtually or connect with in-person on the FabFems site!
About TxGCP & NGCP
The Texas Girls Collaborative Project (TxGCP) connects organizations and individuals across Texas committed to informing and motivating girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math. The TxGCP is excited to provide opportunities across Texas for collaboration, networking, sharing of best practices, and leveraging of resources through in-person forums, listservs and mini-grants.   
Led by the Women in Engineering Program (WEP) at The University of Texas at Austin along with a Leadership Team and Champions Board, the TxGCP brings together advocates and leaders from non-profits, K-12 schools, higher education institutions, companies and organizations across Texas.
The vision of the National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) is to bring together organizations throughout the US and Puerto Rico that are committed to informing and encouraging girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). 
The TxGCP eNewsletter is distributed approximately once a month. Visit the TxGCP web site for additional updates on upcoming events, resources and mini-grant information.
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