Teach for America & TBP STEM week 2012

Tau Beta Pi is proud to announce a partnership with Teach For America to bring the first TBP/TFA STEM achievement gap awareness week to four university and TBP chapters across the country. There will be week-long projects taking place at Cornell University (NY Delta), Pennsylvania State University (PA Beta), the University of Maryland (MD Beta), and the University of Michigan (MI Gamma), aimed at increasing awareness of the STEM achievement gap among college students and to inspire campuses to take action towards achieving educational equity.

As part of this week, the Tau Beta Pi MindSET program will be promoted at these four chapters and several MindSET activity sessions will be hosted for local K-12 students.

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Here are some links of interest related to the first ever TBP/TFA STEM achievement gap awareness week:

1. Learn more about Teach For America and consider applying for the 2012 corps (final deadline is February 10th)

2. Tau Beta Pi website and MindSET home page

3. Pennsylvania Beta chapter website

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In a related story, Texas Tech University recently hosted a technology conference with the theme of “Molding Successful Women Engineers.” Dr. Al Sacco Jr., Dean of the Whitacre College of Engineering at Texas Tech, spoke about goals related to increasing the number of female engineering students at Texas Tech. Dr. Sacco, MA E ’73, also discussed the strengths of female engineers. Click here to read the article

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