STEM Journeys: Supporting Youth in STEM Career Pathways presented by Karen A. Peterson, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of National Girls Collaborative
Exploration of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) careers and career pathways is a key strategy to encourage participation in STEM opportunities and identification with STEM, especially for youth who have been historically and systemically underrepresented in STEM.
This talk will focus on integrating STEM career information and resources into afterschool programming, including high-quality online resources that showcase diverse STEM professionals and STEM careers and guidance for connecting to STEM professionals locally.
About the Presenter
Karen A. Peterson has over 30 years of experience in education as a classroom teacher, university instructor, teacher educator, program administrator, and researcher and has served as Founder & CEO for the National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) since it’s beginning in 2012. Karen is also Co-Principal Investigator for Leap into Science: Cultivating a National Network for Informal Science and Literacy and several other projects all funded by the National Science Foundation which address gender, racial, and socioeconomic underrepresentation in STEM fields. Many of them access NGCP’s national network and dissemination tools to distribute, scale-up, and/or replicate project outcomes. These projects have leveraged Karen’s expertise in STEM equity project development, effective national scale-up strategies, dissemination, and capacity building.