It’s easier than you may think to get women and girls excited about automotive technology. With these ready-to-go banners and videos, you can hit the ground running and start increasing the number of women and girls in your auto tech programs right away. Plus, the video “Inside the Auto Technician’s Toolbox” will help your female (and male) students be successful in your automotive courses. Order the whole kit to receive the discount. You can also order any individual item at the regular price.

Women in Auto Starter Kit includes:

• Women in Automotive Technology Banner (6’ x 2’)
• Women in Trades Banner (6’ x 2’)
• Role Model Video: Automotive
• Tools of the Trade Video: Inside the Auto Technician's Toolbox

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Two Role Model Banners:
Women in Automotive AND Women in Trades

These banners will help make your career events more appealing to female students. Hang these two banners year-round in your school's classrooms and hallways to send the message that women can succeed in automotive technology and trades. Plus we have five other banners in different career areas, including Women in Manufacturing and Women in Technology.

Each banner is 6 feet wide by 2 feet high and includes 3 grommets on top and bottom for easy hanging.

Order six or more banners and save 20%. To receive the 20% discount on six or more banners, use the coupon code BANNER20 at checkout. Banner discount cannot be combined with any other offer.  

See all seven of the the Women in Technology banners

Role Model Video: Automotive

Three dynamic women who have staked out successful careers in the automotive industry will inspire your female students to explore new career pathways. Female role models help get this career on the radar of women and girls because female students are able to see someone who looks like them on the job. The video reveals the personal experiences and insights of women working as a truck driver, an auto technician, and an apprentice auto mechanic.

This 24 minute video features profiles of three women who have embarked on careers in the automotive industry:

• Linda Simon, a former hairdresser-turned-truck driver
• Brenda McWilliams, an autobody technician
• Danuta Wozniak, a third-year apprentice auto mechanic in a woman-owned shop

See automotive video clip and bios

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Tools of the Trade: Inside the Auto Technician's Toolbox

For many female (and male) students entering technical classes, their first challenge is tool identification. Women tend to have less informal tool-use experience outside of the classroom and may find it difficult to identify tools when they enter the trades. Many male students also don’t have these skills when they first enroll in trades programs. Demonstrating tool-use in the classroom is a great way to keep your students engaged! This 31-minute video, with accompanying instructor’s guide, opens the auto technician’s “toolbox” and introduces your students to the systems and tools that make both conventional and hybrid vehicles run.

See the Automotive Tools of the Trade Video

All the tools you need to welcome and introduce women and girls to construction

It’s easier than you think to get started recruiting women and girls to construction. With these ready-to-go outreach tools, you can hit the ground running and start increasing the number of women and girls in your construction technology programs right away. Order the whole kit, or any individual item or combination of items.

Women in Construction Recruitment Starter Kit includes:

• Women in Construction Technology Banner (6’ x 2’)
• Role Model Video: Construction
• Women in Technology Outreach Kit

Women in Construction Technology Banner

This banner sends a visible message that your school supports women and girls in construction technology and makes your career events more appealing to female students. Plus, hang the banner year-round in your school’s classrooms, hallways, communal spaces, and around campus to send the message that women can succeed in these career pathways.

Each banner is 6 feet wide by 2 feet high and includes 3 grommets on top and bottom for easy hanging. Banners are also available for six other career pathways including Women in Manufacturing, and Women in Trades.

Order six or more banners and save 20%. To receive the 20% discount on six or more banners, use the coupon code BANNER20 at checkout. Banner discount cannot be combined with any other offer. 

See all seven of the role model banners

Role Model Video: Construction

Videos of female role models help get construction careers on the radar screens of women and girls because they’re able to see someone who looks like them on the job, especially doing hands-on work in a field setting.

In this DVD, three dynamic women who have staked out successful careers in the construction industry will inspire female students to explore new career pathways.

The 24-minute video features three 8-minute video profiles of women with successful careers in construction:

• Menyui Leung, a welder with experience in manufacturing and shipbuilding
• Suzy Zaric, a restoration carpenter specializing in damage repair
• Luce Gregoire, an electrician who works on lighting and heating equipment

See construction video clip and bios

See all 35 videos on different STEM career pathways

Women in Technology Outreach Kit

It isn't easy to develop outreach materials to recruit women to fields like construction and trades! To help you we have developed these easy- to- use templates for a Women in STEM brochure for your program, a recruitment presentation, a flyer that describes your program and has a picture of a female role model, and a Women in STEM section of your school's website.

You just have to fill in the blanks in the templates with the information from your school's programs and then we've done the work for you!

See the Women in Technology Outreach Kit

Provide the Outreach Kit to your whole school, district, or state

For deans, department chairs, state-level administrators or other education leaders READY to make a bigger difference:  

Are you struggling to recruit and retain more women in your STEM programs?

Watch the “How to Enroll Up to 25-50% Female Students in Your STEM Classes” video to discover how to achieve diversity at your institution...

	Get clear on the mistakes that are keeping women out of your STEM programs and undermining diversity in your educational institution
	Understand the difference between career awareness and recruitment
	Examples of STEM programs that increased their female enrollment in about a year
	Learn how to broaden the appeal of your classes for diversity

With Donna Milgram, Executive Director, the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS)

"The training conducted by Donna Milgram was the best training I have ever received because I can implement the recruitment and retention plans I created specifically for my program Computer Information Management (CIM) to help increase females in technology at Irvine Valley College!" ~ Roopa Mathur, Professor, Computer Information Management, Irvine Valley College, Irvine, CA

"Completely made me re-evaluate the approach that we have been taking. I realized the many mistakes and plan to make changes that I learned from the training. Great information!" ~ Hector Yanez, Department Chair/CADD Manager of Computer Drafting and Design Technology, Texas State Technical College, Harlingen, TX

"A lot of people, including me before I met Donna, do a lot of things that aren’t necessarily recruitment, they’re career awareness tools. People think if you put up a flyer that will solve the problem. Donna really taught us proven techniques to grow the program." ~ Edie Schmidt, Professor, Technology Leadership and Innovation/Supply Chain Management Technology, College of Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

"Participating in the IWITTS training refined my skills as an instructor and administrator to be an agent of change in this realm. Because Computer Networking and Information Technology was not on the radar of many women, the tools that were given to us by IWITTS for reaching out to students for our entry level class were very effective. And those changes have been institutionalized in my department. Thanks to our work with IWITTS, female enrollment in my department has risen from 19% to 33%." ~ Pierre Thiry, Principal Investigator, Mid-Pacific ICT Regional Center, San Francisco, CA (ATE Center)

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Discover How to Enroll Up to 25-50% Female Students in Your STEM Classes — and achieve diversity at your educational institution!

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In this video, you'll discover:

	The most important mistake to avoid in recruiting women to your STEM programs
	Examples of STEM programs that increased their female enrollment in about a year
	Where administrators like you can learn the strategies that lead to actual increases in female students in your STEM programs