87.9% of college-bound female students reported that The Engineer Your Life (EYL) website made them more interested in a career in engineering and 75.5% said the website inspired them to take an engineering class in college. The EYL website also helped 99% of counselors surveyed learn something about engineering and 96% learn what they can do to prepare female high school students to study engineering.
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Paulsen, C., Bransfield, C., & Sahr, T. (2010). Evaluation of the "Engineer Your Life" Initiative. International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 2(2), 263-273. Retrieved from http://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset/article/view/35 |
The WomenTech Educators Training got us thinking intentionally about who we were going to target for outreach, how we were going to target them, and how we would follow up to make sure we had actual results linked to the different programs and events that we were holding. Since then, it has grown organically and blossomed into something that our college just does naturally.
I think getting together as a team with intention—because we're all so busy—and developing a written plan that we could stick to was what made all the difference. I don’t think we would have ever done that if it wasn't for the WomenTech Educators Training.