Tech Savvy

Join us on Saturday, March 7, 2020 at Trinity College
for the
7th Annual Tech Savvy Conference

TechSavvy_Logo_Final-01Sponsored by the American Association of University Women (AAUW/CT)

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WHEN:
Saturday, March 7, 2020, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

WHERE:
Trinity College, McCook Auditorium
300 Summit Street, Hartford CT 06106

WHO:
Tech Savvy is for 6th to 9th grade girls who want to learn about careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

A program for parents/guardians and teachers/advisors will provide information about how to support the girls’ interest in STEM.

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Questions? Contact Alison J. Draper, Ph.D., Director, Science Center, Trinity College, at alison.draper@trincoll.edu

The American Association of University Women’s Connecticut Chapter (AAUW/CT) will host the seventh annual Tech Savvy Conference at Trinity College. The conference is open to sixth to ninth grade girls who want to learn about careers in science, technology, math and engineering, and for parents and educators who want to encourage girls to realize their potential in these fields. Cost is $5 per girl or adult participant.

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Event Advisory:  SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2019

Contacts:

Shakira Ramos, Deputy Manager, Asia-Pacific, Pratt & Whitney, shakira.ramos@pw.utc.com, 860-557-2042 office; 860-970-8313 cell

Alison Draper, Ph.D., Director, Science Center, Trinity College, alison.draper@trincoll.edu, 860-297-5189

Girls grades 6-9, parents and teachers invited to
AAUW-CT’s sixth annual Tech Savvy Conference
Saturday, May 4, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.

[Hartford, Conn., March 18, 2019] — On Saturday, May 4 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., the American Association of University Women’s Connecticut Chapter (AAUW CT) will host its sixth annual Tech Savvy Conference at Trinity College, Mather Hall, 300 Summit St., Hartford, Conn. 06106.

The conference is open to sixth to ninth grade girls who want to learn about careers in science, technology, math and engineering, and for parents and educators who want to encourage girls to realize their potential in these fields.

Girls, their parents/guardians and advisors can register for the conference online at https://tinyurl.com/yyphdj6w or contact Alison Draper at alison.draper@trincoll.edu. Cost is $5.

Check-in and Continental breakfast opens at 8 a.m. with opening remarks at 8:45 a.m. by Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney. Throughout the day, girls will choose four of nine hands-on workshops and will take a brief tour of campus.

Led by female leaders in biology, engineering, math and science, workshops will include 3D Design & Printing, Amazing DNA Science!, ELISA Diagnostic Testing, Get Your Rube-On, How Many Black Bears are in CT?, Leg Savvy, Let’s Do the Jitterbug!, Make Your own Android App, and Using Natural Pigments for pH Analysis of Household Products. Lunch for the girls will be in the student cafeteria at Trinity’s Mather Hall.

Adult workshops and panel discussions, including panel discussions with women in STEM careers and current STEM women college students, will provide parents, guardians and teachers the tools to encourage girls’ exploration of STEM careers.

In 2018, The Brookings Institution reported that

  • While women earn more college degrees than men overall, they earn only 35% of undergraduate degrees issued in STEM fields.
  • STEM field faculty remains predominantly male
  • Women are underrepresented in the innovation pipeline
  • Women remain underrepresented in the most common digital and tech jobs

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) Connecticut Chapter is working to improve those numbers. Connecticut’s Tech Savvy program is funded in part by AAUW, AAUW CT, the Petit Family Foundation and the generosity of individual local donors.

Tech Savvy and similar programs are one way to increase the number of women in the STEM pipeline. Other recommendations, including suggestions for employers, appear in AAUW’s 2015 research report, Solving the Equation: The Variables for Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing.

 

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The American Association of University Women (AAUW) empowers women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research. Our nonpartisan, nonprofit organization has more than 170,000 members and supporters across the United States, as well as 1,000 local branches and more than 800 college and university partners. Since AAUW’s founding in 1881, our members have examined and taken positions on the fundamental issues of the day — educational, social, economic, and political. Learn more and join us at www.aauw.org.

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TechSavvy_Logo_Final-01More Than 60 Trinity College Students Volunteer
at Annual Tech Savvy Event

Written by Sophia Gourley ’19
Hartford, Connecticut, March 21, 2017

Trinity College recently hosted Tech Savvy, an annual daylong event for girls in sixth through ninth grade who are interested in careers in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM). The program on March 4 was put on by the Connecticut chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), with the help of 63 Trinity students in the STEM fields, Trinity faculty, and volunteers from the surrounding area. Alison Draper, director of Trinity’s Science Center, and Donna Haghighat ’89, co-president of AAUW, directed the event attended by more than 100 girls, adults, and teachers.

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Tech Savvy is a daylong science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) career conference designed to attract girls in sixth through ninth grade to these fields and to inform families about STEM education and careers.

Support for Tech Savvy provided by the Praxair Foundation

Support for Tech Savvy provided by the Praxair Foundation

Although the program focuses on exciting girls about STEM, Tech Savvy also includes an important program for parents. This component encourages families to reinforce the girls’ interest in STEM. Keep reading for more details on the program for girls and their families.

The event will be held at Trinity College in Hartford on Saturday, February 27, 2016 (snow date May 9th), from 8:30am-4:30pm.

Read our 2016 Tech Savvy Press Release for additional information.