Engendering Success in STEM

Engendering Success in STEM is a research group that has an ultimate goal of understanding and fighting the different ways that cultural biases stand in the way of creating inclusive environments for women and men in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics).

They have many different projects for the age groups of childhood, adolescence, university and early career. For the purpose of teaching early learners, we will focus on the childhood project. Project CLIMB is for the elementary school grades and tests programs that counteract early learning of implicit gender bias. They ask the question: How can we best teach young children that girls as well as boys can be good at math and science?

The approach to Project CLIMB is to test the impact of having long-term contact with positive role models on girls’ STEM engagement and how the interaction with successful women in STEM can reduce implicit gender biases.

This is a great resource for educators teaching early learning because it targets ways of how to get girls involved in STEM activities and how to eliminate gender biases. The ways in which the research of Project CLIMB is applied, through positive role models and successful women in STEM are methods that educators could reach out to their community for and implement easily into their own classroom.

It is also a great resource because educators can constantly stay updated on latest findings through a newsletter that can be subscribed too!

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