Let's Keep Our Girls in Mind!

Gender Equity in GeoTech and STEM
If you would like some information and some useful tips on how to promote equity in STEM classrooms and activities, browse these two articles.

Research shows that our girls are self-selecting out of STEM, especially starting at the middle school ages. There are ways we can help!

Gender%20Equity_ClassroomTips.pdf
GenderEquity_Stereotypes.pdf

GIS Software Distribution Center is OPEN!

All K12 schools, public and private, now can request the ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 software!
FREE!

The software license was purchased this Spring via a partnership between MEDB Women in Technology and the Hawaii Department of Education.

The GIS Distribution Center is all online and managed by MEDB WIT.

To Request the Software for Your School, go here:

Hawaii K12 GIS Distribution Center

http://www.womenintech.com/GISDistributionCenter/

Citizen Science Project on Butterflies and Moths

Do you have a GPS and a camera and an interest in Butterflies or Moths?

Check out this collaborative geographic inquiry project:

Butterflies and Moths Project
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/
You or your students can submit your own data or just research existing spatial data at this site!!

Community Atlases by Students

Students are mapping their own communities with GIS!

Visit the ESRI Community Atlas program webpage to learn more:
http://edcommunity.esri.com/commatlas/

GIS for History of Slavery

Are you a social studies teacher wondering how GIS might be useful in teaching US History and Slavery? Are you curious to see some powerful visual representations of slavery data?

Visit this website to learn more:
http://tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/divide/teachers/lausd_jordan.html

GIS Software for Hawaii K-12!!

Hot off the press!!

Hawaii K12 schools, public and private, now have access to the real, current, most powerful version of GIS software available by ESRI: ArcGIS 9.3!

Please read the press release at this LINK for more information about this great news.

MEDB Women in Technology (WIT) purchased the software in partnership with the DOE and is the point of distribution. In addition, WIT will continue to provide statewide professional development activities to support teachers in implementing GIS use in the classroom. Stay tuned for more information on distribution.

Molokai Earth Day GPS Treasure Hunts

Over 120 students from 4th - 6th grade from various schools on Molokai participated in the Earth Day festivities last Friday April 17th.

Women in Technology and Molokai Nature Conservancy partnered to facilitate GPS treasure hunts for all of the students!

The Earth Day events, both morning and evening, were planned and put on by Molokai Nature Conservancy. An excellent series of events!