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GE Healthcare and Milwaukee School of Engineering have teamed up to provide middle school girls with a week-long workshop focused on science, technology, engineering and math starting Monday, July 16. The week-long GE Girls at MSOE program will provide 25 middle school girls from the Waukesha School District an opportunity to discover career paths in [...]
(PRESS RELEASE) – Women account for only about 10 percent of all civil engineers, 8 percent of all electrical engineers and 10 percent of all aerospace engineers, according to the U.S. Department of Labor in 2009. To bring more girls into these fields, on Feb. 16, GE Healthcare employee volunteers will show 30 sixth-grade girls [...]
Wisconsin teacher Sarah Ludwig was one of 50 American educations – and one of two from the state – invited to participate in the Siemens STEM Institute this summer. I arrived in Washington, D.C. on Sunday July 31 to start an incredible week of science, technology, engineering and math professional development at the 2011 Siemens [...]
Wisconsin teacher Sarah Ludwig will post blogs during her time as one of 50 American educations – and one of two from the state – invited to participate in the Siemens STEM Institute this summer. I am Sarah Ludwig, science teacher at Woodworth Middle School in Fond du Lac, and I am one of
Many girls grow up being told they can pick any career and “be” anything that want. However, so many fields – particularly the STEM fields of science, technology engineering and math – continue to be male-dominated. To get young women inspired about these fields of study, St. Joan Antida High School partnered with the Milwaukee [...]
Just because you never hear good things about Bradley Tech High School in Walker’s Point doesn’t mean there isn’t any. Perhaps the key to hearing positive news about Tech is looking beyond Milwaukee. (That’s kind of a sad commentary, isn’t it?) You could look at pages 30-33 of the latest issue of NYSE magazine – [...]
Milwaukee Public Schools received the largest single corporate contribution in district history when the GE Foundation announced this morning at a large press conference at Samuel Morse/John Marshall School for the Gifted and Talented that it will give MPS $20.4 million over five years. The Developing Futures in Education grant money arrives at a time [...]
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