Events

• Maine Girls Collaborative Project Leadership Team members were invited to speak at the 2009 Maine EPSCoR State Conference, Monday, September 21, 2009
  During an afternoon breakout session regarding broadening the participation of women and girls in STEM, Mary Madden, Associate Research Professor in Education at the University of Maine, facilitated a presentation titled, "Inspiring Girls in STEM Fields: From Research to Practice." Following that presentation, participants heard from Sharon Barker, MGCP Collaborative Lead and Director of the Women's Resource Center at the University of Maine, about the National Girls Collaborative Project with a special focus on the Maine Collaborative. For more information about this conference or Maine EPSCoR in general, please visit their Web site: www.umaine.edu/epscor/default.htm.
• The Maine Girls Collaborative Project held its second educational forum on Thursday September 25th
  At the forum, Stephanie Blaisdell, Director of Student Learning and Assessment, Division of Student Affairs at the University of Memphis, gave a presentation titled "E=SE2: Engineers (and Scientists and Mathematicians) = Skills X Efficacy X Expectations.” More information about Stephanie Blaisdell can be found at: www.memphis.edu/newsarchive/sept07/stephanie.php.
  
  Following this forum Vinitha Nair, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Platform Shoes Forum, led a discussion designed to gather information about possible ways to sustain NGCP beyond the grant. More information about Platform Shoes Forum can be found at: www.platformshoes.org/.
• Coastal Studies for Girls is still recruiting new students for the opening of their semester school
  Coastal Studies for Girls is looking for 10th grade girls to take part in the 16-week semester school. The school is due to open in January of 2010. More information about the school can be found at: www.coastalstudiesforgirls.org/
• The 2010 Maine STEM Summit will take place on January 29th, 2010
  The summit will be held at the Augusta, Maine Civic Center. More information about the STEM Summit can be found at: www.mainestem.org/STEMInitiative.asp.
• The Engineering Your Future Conference will take place on October 15th, 2009 at the University of Maine at Presque Isle
  “Engineering Your Future” is a one-day event for high school students. It will expose students to careers in engineering through interactive activities. For more information about this conference please contact Darylen Cote at 207.768.9456.