1. Girls Excelling in Math and Science (and technology)

2.  Your daughters  Your sisters  Your nieces  Your friends  Yourself

3.  Encourage girls to:  Explore  Engage  Experience  Emulate

4.  Now  Two years ago  Everyday  Forever  ASAP

5.  School—know what goes on in the classroom  Home—buy different gifts  Work—let them see women  Play—girls are different

6.  Economic  Loss of ideas  Push against stereotypes  Catalogs  TV  Heroes

7.  Listen to and change your message  How do you talk about math, science and technology?  What is valued in your life—who is valued?  Talk about this with your daughter/students—who is praised for good grades? Who gets the computer?  Who is expected to go to college and get a good job?

8.  Monitor classes in high school and middle school  Push for 5 years of math, 5 years of science, and at least 2 years of technology  Push for AP classes  The more math and science she takes in HS, the more options she will have in college

9.  Build a Growth Mindset—teach girls that skills can be acquired—that they are not born learning something  Boys—success is due to hard work Girls—success is due to luck

10.  Work on spatial skills—it is never too late  Lack of experience with spatial rotation keeps girls out of engineering, or stops their progress  Work on 2D to 3D to 2D  Play with rotation  Legos, puzzles, Tetris

11.  Plan for Career Days  Career days  Ask other women  Take Your Daughter to Work Day  Mentoring  Volunteering

12.  Let her take risks  Don’t speak for her  Give her safe freedom  Practice helping her speak up

13.  Scratch http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Video_Tutorials http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Video_Tutorials  Alice http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/alice09/videos.php http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/alice09/videos.php  Google Earth http://www.google.com/earth/learn/beginner.html# http://www.google.com/earth/learn/beginner.html#  Google SketchUp http://www.sketchup.com/learn/videos?playlist=58 http://www.sketchup.com/learn/videos?playlist=58  Lego Digital Designer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6koGKQ5xEwo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6koGKQ5xEwo  PhotoStory http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=75267 http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=75267  Design Squad http://pbskids.org/designsquad/ http://pbskids.org/designsquad/  GEMS Club http://www.gemsclub.orghttp://www.gemsclub.org

14.  Risk-free environment  Same gender support  Critical mass  Less competition  Opportunity to share later in mixed classes  Cool and non-cool kids together  More role models

15.  Cool Careers  Sally Ride Science  Games  Roller Coasters  Building Toys