- STEM Self Efficacy – Precollege Engineering Education
- Short-term successes and failures are the stepping-stones to achieving long term goals. “five tips to build self-efficacy: Break down the task: Smaller tasks are easier to tackle
- CodeGirl
- “Join high school-aged girls from around the world as they try to better their community through technology and collaboration in this thrilling, heartfelt documentary.
- Black Girls Code imagine. build. create. – Black Girls Code, BlackGirlsCode, Women of Color in Technology
- “o increase the number of women of color in the digital space by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders
- DIY Girls
- “DIY Girls empowers girls to be confident makers and creators of technology”
- Engineer better medicines – Engineering Challenges
- “Engineer better medicines Engineers are developing new systems to use genetic information, sense small changes in the body, assess new drugs, and deliver vaccines.”
- Grand Challenges – Engineer the Tools of Scientific Discovery
- “scientists and engineers have distinct job descriptions. Scientists explore, experiment, and discover; engineers create, design, and build. engineers participate in the scientific process
- LinkEngineering – 10 promising practices to interest girls in engineering
- “Ten strategies for recruiting more girls and underrepresented youth into your engineering programs. Make a commitment and set goals. Begin by looking at the enrollment in engineering
- EngineerGirl – Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel
- “The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel was considered to be “One of Seven Engineering Wonders of the Modern World.” It is made of two high bridges, two, one-mile tunnels, four man-made
- Creativity Tools: 24 Free Online Creative Thinking Tools – Daring to Live Fully
- “24 creativity tools to help kick your creativity into high gear. This list of creative thinking tools includes creativity cards, tools to scribble, idea markets, and more.
- Combatting weeds with lasers — ScienceDaily
- “A robot automatically identifies weeds in a field and combats them with a short laser pulse. Sustainable agriculture, which avoids the use of herbicides as far as possible, could benefit
- Scientists discover a 2-D magnet — ScienceDaily
- For the first time, scientists have discovered magnetism in the 2-D world of monolayers, or materials that are formed by a single atomic layer. The findings demonstrate magnetic properties
- Oyster shells inspire new method to make superstrong, flexible polymers: Columbia Engineering technique could lead to stronger composite materials used in commercial products, opening the way for t…
- Engineers have developed a method inspired by the nacre of oyster shells, a composite material with extraordinary mechanical properties, including great strength and resilience.
- Scissors – New World Encyclopedia
- “The earliest known scissors appeared in the Middle East about 3000 or 4000 years ago. They were of the type known as “spring scissors,” consisting of two bronze blades connected
- Future City Competition
- “Future City is a project-based learning program where students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future.”
- Who Invented Scissors? | Wonderopolis
- “Who invented scissors? What were early scissors made of? Is there more than one type of scissors?”
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