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Communities In Schools of Florida, Inc.
CIS is a private, nonprofit organization that connects resources from public and private sectors with at-risk students. They utilize the power of partnerships to serve students, schools and communities.

Council for Educational Change
The Council for Educational Change is a statewide, 501 (C)(3) non-profit organization. Their mission is to focus on LEADERSHIP to improve student achievement and address critical education issues.

College Reach Out Program (CROP)
CROP was established by the Florida Legislature in 1983 in order to identify, motivate and prepare disadvantaged middle and high school students to complete post-secondary education. The purpose of the program is to increase the number of low and middle income, first generation college graduates.

Employ Florida
Employ Florida links all of Florida's workforce services--state and local--to each other. The state partners are Workforce Florida , the state policy and oversight board, and the Agency for Workforce Innovation , the state agency which administers workforce funds.

Enterprise Florida
Enterprise Florida, Inc. is a not-for-profit partnership between Florida's businesses and government leaders and is the principal economic development organization for the state of Florida.

Florida Institute of Technology
The presence of NASA and other high-tech companies was the impetus behind the university's founding and continues to be a dynamic influence in supporting leading-edge research and providing hands-on experience in the engineering disciplines as well as physics and space sciences.

Florida Mentoring Partnership
The Florida Mentoring Partnership, in keeping with the state's pledge to America's Promise, helps students excel in school and life by recruiting Floridians to become mentors. This partnership promotes collaboration among state agencies, municipalities, businesses, nonprofit organizations, individuals and schools.

GEMS: Great Explorations in Math and Science
Lauded by the Department of Education's Expert Panel on Mathematics and Science Education, GEMS is a growing resource for the advancement of inquiry-based science and mathematics education. GEMS has published over 70 teacher's guides and handbooks, offers specialized workshops, and maintains a national network of teacher-training sites and centers. Read about the GEMS program and the educational effectiveness of GEMS materials.

Girls Inc. of Jacksonville
Girls Inc develops research-based informal education programs that encourage girls to take risks and master physical, intellectual and emotional challenges. Major programs address math and science education, pregnancy and drug abuse prevention, media literacy, economic literacy, adolescent health, violence prevention, and sports participation.

IT Florida
IT Florida's Mission is to Make Florida A Leader in High Tech Advancement by serving as an umbrella organization comprised of both public and private technology leaders for high tech in the state, providing guidance to the state on technology issues and initiatives; guiding the Governor, the Legislature, and Enterprise Florida on the strategic technology direction and initiatives of the state; and working to ensure the successful integration of technology infrastructure statewide.

Kennedy Space Center
At Camp Kennedy Space Center, young people experience, imagine and interact through Space Shuttle mission simulations, tours of Kennedy Space Center and the chance to witness first-hand the everyday challenges faced by Astronauts. It all adds up to an inspiring week of fun and enriching space activities. This program is designed for youth entering 2nd- 9th grades, ages 8 to 14 years.

Pace Center for Girls
Mission - PACE provides girls and young women an opportunity for a better future through education, counseling, training and advocacy.  Philosophy - PACE values all girls and young women, believing each one deserves an opportunity to find her voice, achieve her potential and celebrate a life defined by responsibility, dignity, serenity and grace.

Anita Borg Institute
California-based organization whose mission is to increase the impact of women on technology and to increase the positive impact of technology on women's lives. Formerly called the Institute for Women and Technology, it now bears the name of its distinguished founder, Anita Borg. Includes information about its initiatives and links to related sites.

Association for Women in Computing
Information about the AWC, links to local chapters and related sites, and a very interesting column entitled "Computer Confidence for Women."

Association for Women in Mathematics
In addition to information about AWM membership, the site offers announcements of current grants, lectures, workshops, projects, and prizes, as well as extensive links to related sites.

AWIS: Association for Women in Science
Among the resources on the AWIS web site are information about awards, scholarships, statistics, job openings, book reviews, profiles of outstanding women in science, a searchable registry of women in science, links to related sites, and more.

Best Online Resources for Women and Minorities in Science and Technology
Part of Educational CyberPlayground (ECP), this is an extensive, well-chosen listing of links to sites focusing on women in science and technology, as well as links to three other useful ECP pages: What you can do to help GRRLS get into technology, Computer Wonder Women, and International Gender Equity Resources Online.

Celebrating Diversity: Women Energize an Atomic World
This site from the International Atomic Energy Agency highlights women's contributions to the nuclear world. One can read or listen to accounts of the challenges women face in balancing work and home life. The site includes statistics on the number of women in the nuclear industry, efforts to educate and include women among the next generation of nuclear scientists, and ways in which nuclear science is being used to help impoverished women.

Celebration of Women in Engineering
Sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering, this website is designed to call attention to the opportunities and attractions that engineering offers women. The site includes information about accomplished female engineers, educational resources, scholarships and other financial aid, a calendar of events, extensive links to related sites, and more.

Center for Women and Information Technology
Established to encourage women's and girls' greater involvement with information technology, the Center offers many resources on its web site, including extensive news coverage of women and IT, announcements of relevant conferences and calls for papers, a bibliography of books about women and IT, a huge collection of web-based syllabi for women- and gender-related courses, Internet resources dealing with women and IT, and more.

Achieving Gender Equity in Science Classrooms: A Guide for Faculty
Concise handbook compiled by women science students and science faculty and staff at a consortium of New England colleges and published by the Dean's Office at Brown University. Topics include classroom dynamics, examination options, personalizing large classes, moving from a competitive to a cooperative educational model, and more.

Bibliography on Gender and Technology in Education
The Bibliography on Gender and Technology in Education has been created by gender equity specialist Jo Sanders . Focusing primarily on information technology, the bibliography is comprehensive as of 2005 and draws on international research as well as intervention literature. It contains nearly 700 entries and is extensively annotated, key-worded, and searchable. Sanders compiled the bibliography for her 2005 review article, " Gender and Technology: A Research Review ."

Bridging the Gender Digital Divide: A Report on Gender and ICT in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
This United Nations report by Lenka Simerska and Katarina Fialova includes an inventory of gender equality projects and resources for the information society in the CEE/CIS region. It also "highlights the need for increased action to address imbalances between women's and men's access to and participation in ICTs" in the region and "emphasizes the powerful potential of ICTs as a vehicle for advancing gender equality."

Diversity in Science Association
This site provides the results of and information about the diversity surveys conducted by Professor Donna J. Nelson of the University of Oklahoma. The surveys "determined demographics of tenured / tenure track faculty at pertinent departments of the 'top 50' universities, ranked by NSF (National Science Foundation) according to research expenditures in that discipline. These are the first published data, desegregated by gender, by race, and by rank, on faculty at the top 50 research universities in each of 14 science and engineering disciplines."

Gender Issues: Women's Participation in the Sciences Has Increased, but Agencies Need to Do More to Ensure Compliance with Title IX
A report released in July 2004 by the U. S. Government Accountability Office that looks at how four U.S. federal science agencies--The National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Departments of Education and of Energy--make sure that their grantees comply with Title IX (Title IX was enacted by Congress in 1972 to bar gender discrimination in "any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance"). The report also includes data on the progress of women in math, science, and engineering.

The Science of Gender and Science
A debate between two distinguished Harvard psychology professors, Stephen Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke about "the research on mind, brain, and behavior that may be relevant to gender disparities in the sciences, including the studies of bias, discrimination, and innate and acquired difference between the sexes." Spurred by Harvard president Lawrence Summers' remarks in January, 2005, this debate claims to differ from most other discussion of the controversy by focusing on the relevant science. The presentation includes video, audio, slides, and text.

Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates leave the Sciences
Computer Science Professor Danielle R. Bernstein offers a summary of this 1997 book by Elaine Seymour and Nancy Hewitt, including a section on gender, along with her own response to the book and the reactions of others.

Under the Microscope: A Decade of Gender Equity Projects in the Sciences
This 2004 report from the American Association of University Women [AAUW] looks at hundreds of gender equity projects in the sciences funded over the past decade by the AAUW and the National Science Foundation and addresses the following questions: 1) what can we learn from a decade of gender equity efforts in the sciences? 2) what types of gender equity projects in the sciences have been supported and promoted? 3) which STEM disciplines and project approaches have been favored and which have been overlooked?

WEPAN: Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network
This site offers a variety of valuable resources related to women and engineering, including a very extensive bibliography of articles and research on women in engineering and the sciences; data and statistics; funding sources; K-12 and college programs to encourage women to pursue careers in engineering, and more.

Why Women Choose Information Technology Careers: Educational, Social, and Familial Influences
This 2002 paper by Sandra V. Turner, Phyllis W. Bernt, and Norma Pecora of Ohio University "focuses on the influences that successful women in IT cite as being the dominant forces that led them to their career choice." The participants in the study, members of the SYSTERS email list for women in computer science, arrived at their careers via a wide variety of academic paths; fully two-thirds had not majored in computer science as undergraduates.

Women and Computer Science
Ellen Spertus' excellent collection of online papers [including Spertus' classic "Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?"], other resources, and related links. Unfortunately, this page is less useful than it used to be because a number of links no longer work.

Women and Girls in Technology
This very useful site, co-sponsored by the Women's Bureau and the University of Washington Women's Center, is a national clearinghouse for information about activities, events, organizations, etc. that support the participation of women and girls in science, math, engineering, and technology. You can search for information on the local, state, regional, or national level.