FW: Invite: Houston STEM Mentoring Cafe 4/2
Berry, Tricia S
Event: Houston STEM Mentoring Café
Location: Children’s Museum of Houston
Date: Saturday, April 2, 2016
Time: 10am – 12pm
Registration Link: https://ngcpsurvey.typeform.com/to/YPU2Ff
Background:
The STEM Mentoring Café series is an interagency effort between the Departments of Energy and Education to engage middle school students in STEM and their educators with federal STEM professionals through speed mentoring sessions. Additional partners include the National Girls Collaborative Project, the Association of Science- Technology Centers (ASTC), a global organization supporting science centers and learning, and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the agency that administers AmeriCorps.
At a STEM Mentoring Café students and their educators spend a few hours engaged in quick show-and-tell chats with federal employees in STEM careers and private sector STEM professionals, hosted at volunteer sites throughout the country. We are especially interested in reaching girls and female STEM professionals to combat their underrepresentation in STEM; however this program is available to all interested students and STEM professionals. The STEM professionals share how they got their start in STEM, what interests them the most about their job, what exciting projects they have currently, and why STEM matters to our society. Educators are given take-home material, prepared by the Department of Energy's Education and Workforce Development team, to continue STEM learning in the classroom, and federal employees are encouraged to serve an additional 20 hours annually as a mentor to students in their community.
Clarissa Childers
Education Project Manager
Contractor to the Department of Energy