Girls Excelling in Math and Science (and technology)

 Your daughters  Your sisters  Your nieces  Your friends  Yourself

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

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

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

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

 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?

 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

 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

 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

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

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

 Scratch  Alice  Google Earth  Google SketchUp  Lego Digital Designer  PhotoStory  Design Squad  GEMS Club

 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

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