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OCTC's AMTEC Offers Access to Free STEM Success for Women Telesummit

April 17-April 26

by Bernie Hale

Owensboro, KY (04/06/2018) — AMTEC, now housed at Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC), is one of the partner sponsors of the STEM Success for Women Telesummit. This is a free professional development opportunity that begins on Tuesday, April 17 and runs through Thursday, April 26, 2018.

This virtual conference is funded by the National Science Foundation to improve colleges' success in the recruitment and retention of women and minorities in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs.

The sessions are scheduled on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday each week, with the first session beginning at 12 p.m. and the second session beginning at 2 p.m. CST. Each session should last less than the allotted hour time frame and there is an opportunity for questions at each session. A printed copy of the schedule of speakers can be found at: http://c.fastcdn.co/u/235b8c0f/29325972-0-2018TelesummitSchedu.pdf

Sessions:

Tuesday, April 17 12 p.m. CST

Mark Evans, Program Chair Emerging Technologies, Athens Technical College How to Boost Female Enrollment in Emerging Technology from 6%-82%

2 p.m. CST

Dan Garcia, Professor Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkley Infusing joy into Computer Science: How to get 65% Female Enrollment

Wednesday, April 18 12 p.m. CST

Michelle Levine, Interim Director of Faculty Development and Felicidad Archila, Program Manager of Computer Information Technology, both of Broward College Increasing Female Enrollments

2 p.m. CST

Sheryl Sorby, Professor of Engineering Education, the University of Cincinnati

Increasing Enrollment & Retention for Female Students

Thursday, April 19 12 p.m. CST

Virginia Booth Womack, Director of the Minority Engineering Program, Purdue University. She is also the President of the National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates (NAMEPA, Inc.). She increased first year retention rates for underrepresented minority engineering students from 63% to 95%. She used her engineering skills to institute a process for identifying retention road blocks faced by minority students and developed a strategy to remove them. Increasing Enrollment and Removing Retention Roadblocks

2 p.m. CST

Tony Bean, Program Chair of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Technology, and Tammara Walker, Counselor, at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, in North Carolina,How Our Team Increased Female Enrollment by 150% In One Semester

Tuesday, April 24 12 p.m. CST

Lily Gossage, Director Maximizing Engineering Potential Center for Gender, Diversity & Student Excellence and Dr. Angela Shih, Chair of Mechanical Engineering, both from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Increasing Gender & Diversity Enrollments

2 p.m. CST

Donna O. Johnson, Founder and President of Guaranteed 4.0 Learning System Taking the Mystery Out of Learning and Ensuring Academic Excellence

Wednesday, April 25 12 p.m. CST

John Henshaw, Dean of Workforce Development, Mount Wachusett Community College Increasing Female and Male Retention by 50% in Biotech Manufacturing

2 p.m. CST

Julie Mills, Head of the School of Natural and Built Environments and Professor of Engineering Education, University of South Australia

Thursday, April 26 12 p.m. CST

Lewis Nall, Automotive Instructor, Calhoun Community College; formerly Interim Program Coordinator of Automotive & Diesel Technology programs at Owensboro Community & Technical College and OCTC Alumnus Encouraging Enrollment & Persistence for Female Students

2 p.m. CST

Donna Milgram, Executive Director of the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS) Proven Strategies & Best Practices for Recruiting & Retaining Female Students

Secure your spot today by using this link http://www.iwitts.org/stem-telesummitto get your free pass to attend this event.

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Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.

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The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.

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