March 29, 2012 Good luck to our friends "The Shop Girls" the only all-girls teen team at the Shell Eco-Marathon in Houston this weekend, and congratulations on today's public radio interview, "Cars Built By Kids Show Future to Better Gas Mileage" (you GO, girls!) Shaping Youth is proud to be a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) sponsor again this year, and … [Read more...]
How to Drive STEM Careers By Making Math Relevant and Fun!
Project Raceway? “ShopGirls” Create Their Own Eco-Marathon Reality
Update Apr. 7, 2015 Now this is what I'm talking about! Our hometown entrepreneurial hub for startups, Draper University is 'going Hollywood' next week as ABC begins filming a new 'reality TV' series called "Startup U" to capture the challenging environs of Silicon Valley dreamers and doers out to achieve their concept to completion ideation. Now..."What If" this series were to … [Read more...]
WISE Women & Alice 3.0: Geek Chic for Girls (Part One)
Jan. 28, 2009 The She’s Geeky and Teens in Tech Conferences coming up this weekend have me thinking about all of the underrepresented DigiGirlz out there and the impact of media and marketing on both genders in terms of career paths and children’s choices. Just as Baryshnikov and the late great Nureyev evolved ‘boy ballerina’ perceptions and crashed through stereotypes of male … [Read more...]