Annual Conference

Save the Date! The Second Annual Conference will be held Monday, June 21st, 2010 in Louisville, KY!

The Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative hosted its first Annual Conference on June 15, 2009. Participants rated it a great success.

The conference featured presentations by Ms. Jo Sanders, nationally recognized speaker on gender equity in the classroom; and Dr. Carrie Buxton, Ph.D., Program Manager for Antenna Systems Development Facility, Federal Bureau of Investigation.

A Teacher's Workshop and "Girls Day Out" followed on June 16, 2009. The workshop allowed a more personal and in-depth discussion, with Ms. Sanders addressing the latest research on gender-biased classroom interaction. While the teachers were learning, so were 43 young girls attending "Girls Day Out." They scratched the surface of STEM by touring engineering labs at the University of Kentucky, visiting a newly updated digital television productions studio (Kentucky Education Television), and experiencing the new technology in use at a local agriculture farm.

Read about the conference in Business Lexington.