Fulbright Minds Panel on Building the Pipeline on Girls and Women in STEM

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IIE/San Francisco and the IIE Center for Women’s Leadership Initiatives hosted the third Fulbright Minds panel on Tuesday, November 17, 2015 to coincide with celebrating International Education Week. Fulbright Minds is a unique initiative sponsored by IIE’s Board of Trustees and comprised of a series of panels that showcases the knowledge, expertise, and ongoing research and activities of select Fulbright alumni. The discussion focused on building the pipeline of girls and women in STEM and was moderated by Natalie Villalobos, Head of Women TechMakers at Google.

Kelly Day, mathematics teacher at Westfield Washington Schools in Indiana, represented the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program on the panel. Afterwards, she expressed that she was "proud to be a voice for teachers in this very important discussion about how we can encourage more women in the STEM professions." In addition to Kelly, alumni from the Fulbright Student and Fulbright Scholar Programs and the Humphrey Fellowship Program participated as panelists.

For those of you looking for gifts during this holiday season, here are two recommendations from panel members that will introduce engineering to the young girls in your lives: Hello Ruby and I Can Be An Engineer.