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Albany, NY – "ENTRY POINT! OPENS DOORS AND LAUNCHES WOMEN INTO STEM EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND CAREERS"
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION RESEARCH IN DISABILITIES EDUCATION SERIES
"ACCESS TO ADVANCEMENT: AN AUDIO EXPLORATION OF THE NATIONAL EFFORT TO INCREASE THE ROLE OF WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS" -
In our feature story today something on the minds of many college students as we head into the summer months internships.
This year marks the 15th year of Entry Point! It's an internship program from AAAS - the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Entry Point! provides paid internships for students with disabilities. For many students, it opens doors and is the launching pad to graduate school and careers in STEM - science, technology, engineering, and math.
Entry Point! accomplishes this by partnering with such well known government agencies and private corporations as: NASA, IBM, Pfizer, Lockheed Martin, Google, and Procter & Gamble.
TBOOK visited with a few of Entry Point's! women interns at the places they called home for ten weeks.
Featured in this story are:
Entry Point! Director, Virginia Stern, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Dr. Ashok Srivastava, Data Mining Group, NASA Ames Research Center, CA.
Susannah Calhoun, Biology Major, Smith College, Massachusetts and
Intern, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
Katie Browne, Computer Science Major, University of Nevada and
Intern, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
Allison Dunne reports. (14:59)
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THE BERKSHIRE STEM PIPELINE SUMMER TRAINING PROGRAM -
STEM education is dominating a lot of education news around the country lately. Our next story comes to us from Massachusetts, where a new Summer STEM Training Program was recently announced.
The Berkshire STEM Pipeline has been around for awhile. It's a product of the Massachusetts Pipeline Fund started by that state's Department of Higher Education. The fund created seven regional network partners to build a pipeline between higher ed., PreK - 16, businesses, and non-profit agencies for the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and math education.
Goals are to: increase the number of students in STEM programs and careers; increase the number of qualified STEM teachers; and improve STEM education offerings available in public and private schools.
The Pipeline got a boost recently when Nuclea Biotechnologies made a donation to help launch a new program for this summer. TBOOK speaks with:
Dr. Mary Grant, President, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Paul Raverta, President, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, Massachusetts and Patrick Muraca, President and CEO at Nuclea Biotechnologies
Charlie Deitz reports. (3:06)