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Mentors and Role Models

Research has shown that access and exposure to STEM role models and mentors is a best practice for encouraging girls to pursue STEM studies and careers.  Use these resources to identify a collegiate or professional mentor to help with you Girls RISEnet program activities. View Now

Engineering and Science Activities

Use these activities to better understand what engineering means and what engineers do.View Now

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Engineering Activities for girls to use. View Now

GSE/EXT Projects

Girls RISEnet is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Research on Gender in Science and Engineering Extension Service Track (GSE/EXT). View Now 

 

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Girls RISEnet Regional Workshop at the Miami Science Museum - Engaging Girls in STEM: Strategies You Can Use NOW!

The Miami Science Museum (MSM) hosted participants from Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida for a one-day regional workshop to share research-based strategies that informal science educators can u...Read More

Privacy Policy | The Girls RISE (Raising Interest in Science and Engineering) National Museum Network is funded by Grant No. HRD-0937245 from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Human Resource Development, Research on Gender in Science and Engineering Extension Services (GSE/EXT) Program. Project collaborators include the Miami Science Museum, the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) and SECME, Inc. The project seeks to increase the capacity of science centers and museums to interest girls from underrepresented populations in the engineering sciences