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October 2024

Hello Kathy,

We're excited to announce that sessions have been selected for the 8th annual virtual Texas Women & Girls in STEM Summit on December 6th. See below for more details.

See below for other exciting upcoming conferences, including the February 12-14, 2025, Informal Science Education Association’s 2025 annual conference - Empowering Curiosity: Science for All, Y’all! and the March 1, 2025, 9th Annual Greater Houston Area STEM Conference: YOU Belong in STEM.

2024 Texas Women and Girls in STEM Summit 

Friday, December 6, 2024

8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. CT Summit Sessions (Virtual in Zoom)

Join the Texas Girls Collaborative Project (TxGCP) for our 8th Annual Texas Women and Girls in STEM Summit, designed to share effective 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.

Find the agenda and session descriptions on the Summit website.

This event is hosted around Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek), held in recognition of the birthday of computing pioneer and #WomeninSTEM role model Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906).

Registration fee: $50. Provides full access to all virtual sessions, recordings, resources, and references.

• High school and college students may register at a discounted $25 registration fee.
• Contact STEM@TxGCP.org to inquire about a registration full or partial scholarship.
• Contact STEM@TxGCP.org to inquire about group registration discounts.
• Register now!

2025 Annual Conference Empowering Curiosity: Science for All, Y’all

San Antonio, TX February 12 - 14, 2025

Join us for the Informal Science Education Association’s 2025 annual conference - Empowering Curiosity: Science for All, Y’all! where informal science educators unite to make science accessible, exciting, and relevant for every learner. Discover new strategies, share ideas, and inspire other informal educators.

Our 2025 conference will occur on February 12-14, 2025 and will be a three-day Conference: evening Wednesday (5-10 pm), a full day Thursday (8 am-6 pm), and a half day Friday (8 am-12 pm) with optional pre- and post-conference experiences on Wednesday and Friday.

Session proposals accepted through November 1. Early registration opens November 1.

9th Annual Greater Houston Area STEM Conference: YOU Belong in STEM

Saturday, March 1, 2025

8 a.m. - 3 p.m.

University of Houston-Clear Lake Bayou Building

You are invited to attend the Greater Houston STEM Conference at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, in the Bayou Building. Expected conference attendees from Gulf Coast and Greater Houston areas include K-16 teachers, teacher educators, pre-service teachers, administrators, informal educators, and STEM industry education liaisons.

Session choices include engaging hands-on workshops, round-table talks, lectures, and panel discussions. Expected presentations about K–16 STEM education topics will range from examining 21st century skills in STEM industries to classroom implementation strategies in preparation for NEW State of Texas Assessment for Academic Readiness (STAAR) exam question types. Participants may earn up to 7 CPEs for all-day attendance.

Science Near Me is a free resource to help you quickly find opportunities to engage in all types of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) events, projects, and programs near you, in person and online. 

Search for STEM programs and add your programs into the database at https://www.txgcp.org/science-near-me.

Science Near Me Featured Opportunity: Public Star Party at Ink's Lake State Park hosted by Austin Astronomy Society. The public is invited to observe the sky in our telescopes. We’ll show such objects as Saturn, Venus, galaxies, nebulae, star clusters, and more. Festivities will take place near the dump station across the street from Inks Lake’s Central Park just southwest of the park store. Learn more and join in at https://sciencenearme.org/public-star-party-at-ink-s-lake-state-park-1.

TxGCP Regional STEM Google Groups are open to anyone interested in STEM resources, opportunities, grants, sharing and more. The purpose of the regional Google Groups is to provide connections, resources and a sense of community across all engaged in K-12 STEM outreach in the region. Subscribe now!

Don't miss out on getting connected to all kinds of great STEM opportunities in your area of Texas and beyond! Check out some of the STEM Google Group posts from April below.

IF/THEN® Collection: Learn about women in STEM working to understand and protect the earth through curated Climate Science resources with activities, videos, and photos showcasing female scientists researching and protecting the natural world through geology, ecology, and geography, including Adriana Baile, Atmospheric Scientist, and Rae Wynn-Grant, Large Carnivore Ecologist. Visit the STEMINIST Updates page for resources featuring women in Earth Science. 

Interested in supporting TxGCP, collaborating on programs or disseminations, or advertising in the TxGCP newsletter or other programming? Visit our Sponsorship webpage. Contact stem@txgcp.org.

The Texas Girls Collaborative Project (TxGCP) is a statewide network of advocates and educators from non-profits, K-12 schools, universities and colleges, and companies across Texas and beyond who are committed to motivating and supporting women and girls to pursue and thrive in careers in STEM. TxGCP leads the annual Texas Women & Girls in STEM Summit, disseminates curriculum and effective practices, and supports a network of collaborators, resource sharing and STEM communications throughout the state. TxGCP is a state collaborative of the National Girls Collaborative Project powered by STEMwise Connections.

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).