The Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative is pleased to announce the 2016 Mini-Grant Awardees. For more details on each of the projects KGSC funded, please see the project summaries below.
To achieve this purpose, products which are closely related to girls (pink vase, bike, helmet, sofa, doll..) are to be designed and proto-typed to show students that CAD is for everyone’s daily life.
Female students will also be invited to the Department of Applied Engineering and Technology to have three meetings. During these meetings students will have opportunities to learn the basic skills of computer aided design and experience the prototyping using a 3D printer.
During these three meetings students also can communicate with female students who major in engineering and technology and female faculties who work in STEM area.
All these activities will help to stimulate the students’ interest in applied engineering topics.
We want to provide this opportunity for the families who we serve during the summer of 2017 with new and improved activities as well as consider implementing such activities into our services throughout the year.
By expanding the Girls Collaborative Conference, WKCTC and partners are investing in our region by increasing engagement of girls in STEM subjects, encouraging mentoring to support women throughout their academic and professional experiences, and supporting efforts to keep women in the STEM workforce. The benefits provided to the community through the middle and high school girls via Project EDGES is a long lasting investment in business and industry, the school systems, and the economy.
Additionally, girls will collaborate with team members and female staff in afterschool sessions to prepare for and attend E-day 2017 at the University of Kentucky College of Engineering Paducah Campus.
The team is coached by GET’s primary mentor, Research Engineer, Mike Miller, with the help of 6 other mentors, five of them female, four of them Uof L engineering students, and two of them graduates.