Education Law

Engineer Your Life

BoardBuzz stumbled across Engineer Your Life this morning. This website acts as a guide to engineering careers for high school girls. In 2004, WGBH Educational Foundation and the National Academy of Engineering formed a coalition to encourage girls to enroll in engineering programs. The fact that women are underrepresented in fields of science and engineering has been attributed to a lack of encouragement and a lack of role models. The Engineer Your Life campaign seeks to change all that by:

• Introducing high school girls to young women engineers who embody these messages.
• Showcasing engineering careers and illustrate that an education in engineering is both desirable and within their reach.
• Helping school counselors and teachers better understand engineering and give them the resources and training they need to advise students.
• Mobilizing America?s more than one million engineers with compelling resources, training, and messages to use in their ongoing outreach efforts.

With the President?s recent STEM initiative, this website is exactly what we need to show female students why engineering is a cool, creative, and rewarding career.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on November 30, 2009 (boomark / email).