It’s time to think about ways to engage more women in male dominated fields, like STEaM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math).
There’s a massive gender gap in the high paying STEaM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) fields that widens the pay gap between men and women.
Register your daughter, granddaughter, niece, friend or mentee for the STEaM for Girls Summit. At this exciting event they will meet girls and women who are succeeding in STEaM fields, try on a STEaM career during hands on breakout sessions and find all sorts of STEaM educational opportunities. You will learn ways to help encourage and support them on their STEaM journey.
Join us for a morning event consisting of panels and breakout sessions featuring girls and women who are succeeding in the STEaM fields.
This Event is suitable for girls ages 10 to 18 years of age.
Event Timeline:
8:30am – 9:30am Registration
9:30am – 10:00am Rally
10:00am – 11:30am Breakout Session
11:45am – 1:15pm Lunch, Panel and Scholarships
1:30pm – 3:00pm Breakout Session
HANDS ON INTERACTIVE BREAKOUT SESSIONS:
10:00am – 11:30am
Collectors of the Lost Gems – Adventures in Paired Programming – Presented by Maydm in Partnership with Rockwell Automation
Learn to code by playing! Help Byte collect gems as she explores the fantastical worlds of Swift Playgrounds. Interact with Byte in real-time to learn about commands, conditionals, functions, loops, and debugging. Experience immediate results as you level up in the game and in real life! Best suited for students in 6th through 8th grade.
Lending a Hand with Biomedical Engineering – Brought to you by MSOE
See what happens at the intersection of engineering and medicine and how biomedical engineers can impact the world. Participants will create and keep their own mechanical prototype of the human hand.
Be a scientist for the day and extract your own DNA! – Brought to you by Medical College of Wisconsin
Roll up your sleeves, put on your rubber gloves and get ready to learn about your DNA in a brand new way. In this session, Dr. Jess Olson, a researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin, will teach participants how genes influence our individual health and protect us when we are sick.
Parent/Adult Session – Brought to you by Katie Weiss
Information about supporting girls interested in a STEaM career.
1:30pm – 3:00
Food Science – Brought to you by Mt. Mary University
More information to follow.
Think Like an Engineer Design Challenge – Brought to you by Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast and GE Healthcare
Elderly people often have a harder time moving around than when they were younger. For example, they may have trouble getting up and down from couches or stairs, trouble reaching things from the floor or high shelves. You’ve been hired as a rehabilitative engineer to invent a new assistive device to help the elderly. Goal: Engineer a prototype for a new device to help the elderly grab objects.
TBA – Brought to you by Center for Healthcare Careers
Parent/Adult Session – Brought to you by Secure Futures
Paying for a future in STEaM, this session will prepare you for the dollars and cents of a STEaM education.