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"examine how OER can attract and support girls in STEM education, including additional support services necessary to ensure high levels of success. OER are high-quality educational materials that are openly licensed and shared at no cost, allowing learners and educators to use, adapt, change and add information to suit their education goals"

The topic is Weight and Balance, an important principal not only here on earth but in space too! We feature Ruth, an Air Force Loadmaster who performs the calculations and plans cargo and passenger placement to keep the aircraft within permissible center of gravity limits throughout the flight.

Our Girls With Wings Summer Scholarship Application Window is now open. Yes, we just have to find more people who deserve funds for flight training! We just announced three winners for our Spring Program and we're looking for applicants for the Summer Program. Please tell everyone you know about the scholarship so we have another great pool of potentials from which to choose. Please send this Press Release to any and all of your area schools (flight and otherwise), organizations, friends, family, etc. You can post this flyer, too, on bulletin boards. Flying is expensive, as well all know, and these funds could make the difference in someone's life!

"Girls With Wings is pleased to announce that we have developed an additional scholarship for 2012. Girls With Wings has traditionally offered a Private Pilot Scholarship to help defray the cost of flight training lessons in pursuit of a private pilot certificate. This scholarship is targeting those individuals who have soloed but have not completed the Private Pilot Course. The Private Pilot Scholarship is an award in the amount of $1000.00."

"Dare 2B Digital, a conference designed to encourage girls to pursue careers in science and technology that attracted more than 400 participants to such workshops as Sylvia's "Hands-on Robotics -- Kits and Demos." Sylvia's MakerBot was heating plastic, which then squirted onto a heated platform, to be transformed into something new and wonderful."

"We use aviation to entertain and educate girls about their limitless opportunities for personal growth."

Partnership of Phoenix Ninety-Nines, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and Arizona Cactus Pine Girl Scout Council to create Aviation Discovery Camp. A good example of collaborative efforts to encourage and mentor young girls in aviation.

The mission of Girls Explore is to make and sell dolls and other educational products to inspire young girls to achieve greatness. Doll sets, posters, prints and book biographies of Amelia Earhart and Bessie Coleman are just a few of the many unique products available to encourage young girls to explore aviation.

Program for Research and Outreach on Gender Equity and Society, whose mission is to teach women and girls to negotiate.

Collaborative network seeking to further female participation in STEM through maximization of public and private resources, also through the work of regional chapters

This year's Awardees were announced in October via the Girls With Wings eZine (signup). The winning submissions were judged on their willingness to be a superlative GWW role model. Janice and Rose showed potential to continue their interaction with the GWW organization, via the website and events, so they assist GWW in encouraging more young girls to have an interest in aviation. Click HERE for the details of the 2011 Scholarship application process."

Research has proven that we can expose our girls to the opportunities available to them, but unless we can give them real life examples of women who have achieved their dreams, girls have difficulty picturing themselves doing the same.

Audience: Educators Grades: 9-11 WISH wants female high school juniors to participate in a pilot project. Beginning with an online collaboration in fall 2010, selected applicants will compete to participate in a summer 2011 workshop at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. There they will work alongside female NASA engineers and interns and collaborate in hands-on activities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The WISH Flier explains how to apply.

Pilots at Renton Municipal Airport in Washington state took 170 women and girls on introductory flights Dec. 5, and the airport is now recognized by the Centennial of Licensed Women Pilots for introducing the most girls and women to flying in one day.

there is an effort to show the human aspects of engineering such as creativity and finding solutions to issues related to energy and the environment. The university has several programs aimed at reaching younger girls, including after-school aerospace and robotics clubs at about eight area elementary and middle schools. A couple of the clubs are all-female.

get your passport to the exciting world of mat h and science at the Embry-Riddle campus . "Visit Japan" to computer-design your own animé cartoon characters. "Visit Egypt" to study the pyramids and how to "mummify" apples. "Visit China" to explore the Great Wall and the process of making paper. "Visit space" and learn about the International Space Station. Have fun learning about physics, robotics, computer-aided drawing, chemistry, basic engineering, and space science.

GEMS (Girls Exploring Math & Science) summer camp and we're rolling out the red carpet with this year's theme, "The Science & Adventure of the Movies." Our camp is for any girl, ages 8-13, to explore math, science, and technology through fun, interactive activities.