Registration and complete details available April 5th.
Tuesday through Friday: Pop Tech Music, Animation, Technical Theatre, App and Web Design, Maker Space for Projects with robotics, electronics, and coding.
Saturday: Student Showcase for parents, families, guests
PRORAM HIGHLIGHTS
• Experience interactive sessions in UNCG’s state-of-the-art labs.
• Enjoy lunch at Fountain View Dining Hall.
• Learn from UNCG faculty and AAUW Teen Near Peer Volunteers.
• Visit the new Bryan School of Business Google Cyber Security Center.
Tentative Schedule for April 5, 2025
Description:
Find Your STEM is a unique event for high school students, and those preparing to enter high school. The model is to have attending students engage with near peer mentors who will be the voice of STEM at their level.
The pre-registered attending students, approximately 72, will be greeted by over 30 teen and adult volunteers upon check-in at 8:30. Parents are encouraged to come in and observe the conference. A networking continental breakfast is served while students get their nametags, t-shirts, and other swag/memorabilia of the event. There will be a photo-shoot area for groups who want to have a special memento. During the breakfast and check-in period, teen presenters will give their two-to-three-minute explanations of their STEM experiences in middle and high school. Posters will be engaging with photos and bullet points, especially for programs that are available free in our North Carolina Triad Region.
Following a brief welcome plenary session, attendees will break into groups, be issued their lab aprons, and proceed to one of the assigned chemistry labs to start their hands-on activities such as titrations and chromatography, techniques that are used across many fields of science. Each student will experience several high school and college level laboratory techniques and experiments, assisted by upper-level high school and undergraduate level college instructors.
Attendees will then take a campus tour of the science and technology buildings and enjoy lunch at the Fountain View Dining Hall. While in the dining hall building, students will have the opportunity to visit the E-Sports arena.
Following lunch, the group will walk to the Bryan School of Business and Economics.
UNC Greensboro’s Joseph M. Bryan School for Business and Economics is the first university in the state of North Carolina to receive $1 million in grant funding and wraparound support from Google’s Cybersecurity Clinics Fund.
The Find Your STEM conference is expected to conclude at 2:00 p.m. Volunteers will accompany students back to the free parking areas at Walker and McIver Decks. As they walk across campus, they will experience Science Everywhere, a family friendly event that is also part of the NC Science Festival.
Find Your STEM brings middle and high school students to an event that is designed especially for them.
Goals and Desired Outcomes
Find Your STEM on Saturday April 5, 2025 is designed to encourage high school students, and those preparing to enter high school, to take science and technology classes in preparation for careers in STEM fields. The model is to create an engaging environment with hands-on activities as well as one-on-one networking with near peer mentors.
Our desired outcome is to have 72 attending students, 12 to each chemistry lab, who will work in pairs with instruction from upper-level high school and undergraduate college lab assistants.
Total attendance, teen mentors, and adult volunteers will be between 100 and 150.
Six teen near peer mentors will be selected to present posters that describe and demonstrate how those students “found their STEM”. This poster session is a key component of our effort to create a conference type event in the atrium where attendees will network and ask questions of those who have more recently experienced the transition to high school STEM courses in preparation for college and beyond.
Our attendees will benefit from the collegiate atmosphere including:
– interactive activities in state-of-the-art college freshman labs with activities such as titrations and chromatography – skills that are used across the sciences. These labs are in the UNCG Nursing and Instruction Building. The activities are designed to have students use instrumentation and equipment that is typically introduced at the college level. Teams of 12 will rotate through 35 minutes in each of three labs over a 2-hour period.
– Attendees will use a passport to visit each of the six poster presentations in the atrium lobby. There will also be online tools including a MailChimp Find Your STEM Newsletter which will track each attendees e-visits to tools and narratives on “finding your STEM.
– After the college-experience luncheon, attendees will proceed to the Bryan School of Business and Economics to learn about the unique UNCG Spartan Cyber Security Center including the cyber academy which will be open to high school applicants. The purpose of highlighting this particular academic center is to show students that technology translates across all fields of study and offers opportunities outside of science and engineering.
– post event surveys and interviews will help us plan future Find Your STEM events which are currently in its eighth year.
Suzanne Goodell joined AAUW Greensboro Branch in January 2020. Although she was a member for less than five years, her impact was significant. Suzanne’s community engagement was widespread, and she immediately joined the Diversity Equity Inclusion committee. Decades before Suzanne became a member of AAUW, she wrote on her LinkedIn page the following:
“When I was in college, I learned a profession that would go the way of pay phones and floppy discs: Medical Record Administration. I mastered a wide range of (now useless) techniques to manage tons of paper records in a variety of healthcare settings. But I also learned the core principles of today’s hottest topics in healthcare: health information management and Health IT. Through it all, the EHR was the Holy Grail.”
We will miss Suzanne’s energy, enthusiasm and passion. Included in obituary provided by her family are the following:
Suzanne’s career was in Health Information Management and nonprofit administration in several locations, ending in Greensboro, NC, at Cone Health. She excelled in her field and in mentoring others. She was known for her smile, outgoing personality, positive approach and zest for life.
Suzanne’s passions were her children and grandchildren, social justice, giving women a better opportunity for success, and many creative endeavors.
Suzanne’s final wishes were to thank those who had been so kind to her and her family throughout her journey. She also wanted everyone to go out and do something kind for someone else.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/greensboro/name/suzanne-goodell-obituary?id=56695168
The Goodell family would like to thank everyone for their cards, calls, meals, prayers and overwhelming support during this time.
Margaret was a lifelong student and educator. She attended Howard University, where she earned bachelor and graduate degrees before earning her doctorate in genetics. During her distinguished academic career, she taught at schools in Germany and in the U.S. at Fitchburg State, Livingstone College, Albion College, where she served as provost, Lawrence University, where she was dean of students, and Bennett College. She also worked closely with the National Science Foundation (NSF) evaluating, initiating and managing programs promoting STEM education.On Thursday, November 17, 2022, AAUW Greensboro in collaboration with the Nehemiah Community Empowerment Center and ApprenticeshipNC hosted the 2nd Annual Phenomenal Women in STEM event. The event celebrated Women in Apprenticeship Day during National Apprenticeship Week. National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) is a nationwide celebration where industry, workforce, education and government industries come together to showcase the value of Registered Apprenticeship.
As part of the Women in Nontraditional Careers initiative, the event focused on the enrichment and empowerment of women and minorities in STEM related career fields.
The event featured the following speakers: Dr. Danielle Harrison, Interim Director –
GuilfordWorks, City of Greensboro Workforce Dev. Board
Dr. Holly Pore, CTE Director – Guilford County Schools
Keynote speaker: Dr. Sherine Obare, Dean of the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Tiffany N. Jacobs, AAUW Greensboro – Women in Nontraditional Careers Committee Chair served as moderator. Tiffany is the AAUW North Carolina Diversity Chair and an AAUW National Inclusion & Equity committee member.
The guest speakers shared information on topics such as: the benefits of apprenticeship programs, the need for more diversity and equitable access to career opportunities, and how apprenticeship can be a pathway to a thriving career for both students and adults; while helping to close the skills gap and meet industry needs of employers. Each of the speakers also shared their personal stories of how being an African-American female impacted them in their career pursuits and leadership roles.
The event was a huge success! Among the attendees was Congressional Aide, Giovanni Gerald, who attended on behalf of Representative Kathy Manning of North Carolina’s Congressional District 6. Congresswoman, Kathy Manning sent a letter of support for the event and Gov. Roy Cooper issued a State Proclamation in recognition of National Apprenticeship Week. Pat Ashe, AAUW NC President, issued a Proclamation in support of National Apprenticeship Week on behalf of AAUW of North Carolina.
Submitted by: Tiffany N. Jacobs (See proclamations attached)
The hall was filled to standing room only for the Greensboro Branch’s celebration of Women’s
Equality Day. The theatrical production of “Sisters of Mine” was resurrected for the August 24 th
performance, after being hijacked by Covid at the Governor’s Mansion in 2020. Each actor
portrayed a North Carolina woman’s struggle to gain the right to vote. But the theme of equality
for women went beyond 1920 to the present-day challenges for women. The performance ended in a standing ovation, with the line “Maybe someday we’ll have a woman president!”
getting the greatest reaction from the audience. Refreshments and a reception followed, with
continuing conversations among the guests about equity for women in today’s cultural climate.
Cast of Shared Radiance Performance
Jamila Curry, Sheryl Davis
Robin Gentile, Patsy Hawkins
Cynthia Reichelson, Sherri Raeford
Chappell Upper, Ruan Walker
Sarah Wilson
Director, Sherri Raeford
Stage Manager, Sarah Wilson
Morgan Joyce, a local Welding Instructor and Firefighter
On Tuesday, Nov. 14th the AAUW Greensboro Branch hosted a panel discussion on Women in Nontraditional Careers. The US Department of Labor defines a non-traditional career as one in which 25% or less of those employed across the field are women.
The panel discussion was moderated by Tiffany Jacobs, AAUW NC DEI Chair. The panel of women consisted of:
Katy Carnes (Toyota Battery Manufacturing NC) TBMNC (toyota.com)
Today, women make up just a third of the manufacturing workforce and only 8% of the construction workforce overall, a percentage that has remained stubbornly constant.
Each woman spoke about:
Again, the Temple Emanuel Social Action committee has planned Candidate Forums for local races in the upcoming November NC elections. This year the Social Action committee it has partnered with AAUW (American Association of University Women) Greensboro branch. These two Candidate Forums will be held in September at Temple Emanuel, 1129 Jefferson Road, Greensboro, N.C. from 7 pm to 8:30 pm in the sanctuary. Please plan to join us and hear from the candidates directly.
The dates and races covered in the two forums:
September 12th NC Senate and NC House
September 17th Guilford County Commissioner
Our moderator will be Bill O’Neil from WFMY Channel 12. With sponsorship and additional coverage from The Carolina Peacemaker. The Newspaper of Temple Emanuel members Afrique Kilimanjaro, Editor and Vickie Kilimanjaro, Founder & Associated Publisher. Since 1967, The Carolina Peacemaker has served as North Carolina’s leading news weekly with a national reputation.
The AAUW Greensboro mission is to advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research. One way it is providing community engagement is thru their public policy work and multichannel communications to foster a growing community of members, supporters, students and organizations who advance their missions. Most recently AAUW partnered with UNCG for their annual “Intersection” STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) summer camp for 4th thru 9th graders. This camp clearly ends the notion that girls can’t do math, understand and create tech (APPS & websites) or become scientist.
Catherine Magid, AAUW Public Policy Chair & TE Social Action committee member
