30 Minute Consult with Donna Milgram, our Executive Director
Do you have a specific issue that you'd like to run by our Executive Director? For example, girls aren't signing up for your technical education classes despite your best efforts. Now is your chance to have a half-hour of Ms. Milgram's undivided attention as she works to steer you and your school in the right direction.  Ms. Milgram is the nation's leading expert on recruiting females to trades and technology education.  She has a wealth of resources at her fingertips ready to help you! Whether your school's issue is recruitment, retention, work-based learning activities or how to bring about institutional changes, Ms. Milgram is available to help you find the solution to your problems. Click here for more information.  

Subcontractor on National Science Foundation Grants or other types of grants.
The Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science (IWITTS) can serve as a subcontractor on your National Science Foundation (NSF) grant or other grants, contributing our expertise on how to recruit and retain females. IWITTS has received three successful NSF grants and Donna Milgram has served as Principal Investigator of these. IWITTS is ready to help throughout the process: as early as proposal or after approval. Currently, IWITTS subcontracts include one for the Community College of Southern Nevada, ATE Regional Center of Excellence in Telecommunications Planning Grant, for which we were included in the grant proposal.
To schedule a time to talk, contact Donna Milgram click here.

Gender Equity Consultant
Donna Milgram can help you develop a specific action plan to improve your school's recruitment and retention of women and girls next semester. Building on the successful best practices of our NSF WomenTech Project and the Cisco Gender Initiative, as well as examples from other schools, Ms. Milgram will help you jumpstart your own WomenTech initiative.  Ms. Milgram is experienced in working at all levels of the education system: federal, state, regional and local. Her specialty is infusing gender equity components into any system.  See our client list. And if you want, Ms. Milgram will provide supportive training and technical assistance throughout the process to implementation.  Our consultation is based on the tried and true strategies of our many successful projects, so we aren't starting from scratch.  Don't recreate the wheel, let Ms. Milgram help your school today.
To schedule a time to talk contact Donna Milgram click here

Fixing the Math Problem
Do you wish that your school's math and engineering departments would work together to ensure that students could get the math they needed? (Or your math and IT or trades departments?) Donna Milgram has had success in facilitating a collaborative action plan between these departments both as part of the NSF WomenTech Project and as a contractor for community colleges.  The following experience could be yours:

"The Math class idea finally got sorted out after an all-faculty retreat.
We got to explain that we wanted BOTH options, and that those who wish to transfer or may want to transfer would be encouraged to take College Algebra. For those who have no intention of transferring, this math class is based on computer fundamentals, with no prerequisites and is taught by our faculty. With that in mind, we partnered with the Math dept. (WOW) and came together to get the class approved. So what started out as a simple facilitation on your part, blossomed into a much needed partnership between the Academics and the Vocational faculty. GOOD JOB!"
               - Geri Hertel, CIS Instructor, Olympic College, Bremerton, WA

Contact Donna Milgram click here to set an appointment to discuss solving the math problem at your school.

Facilitation
Donna Milgram is a talented and skilled group facilitator who greatly enjoys assisting institutions in moving their agenda forward.  She is known for her special expertise in overcoming resistance to create a win-win scenario for everyone's needs and concerns and is proud of her reputation for keeping a group focused, on-track and on-time.  Ms. Milgram has facilitated dozens of meetings for leadership teams, community colleges, police departments and business associations.
So if you are in need of a seasoned facilitator -- whatever the topic -- contact Donna Milgram to get to YES click here.

Keynote Speeches
IWITTS's Executive Director, Donna Milgram is available to make keynote speeches on topics related to women in technology at national and state conferences. Possible topics for your conference could be "Women Firsts:  We Can All Be Pioneers," "Empowering our Daughters," "Five Easy Steps to Recruiting Women and Girls in Technology" and "Five Easy Steps to Retaining Women and Girls in Technology." Contact Donna Milgram for more information click here.

Let Us Write Your Role Model Biographies or the WomenTech Section of Your School's Web site
Would you like to post role model biographies of your star female graduates to your school's Web site but you still haven't gotten beyond the idea stage?  Or would you like a WomenTech section of your school's Web site? Our experienced team of writers can do this with a short turnaround time because we've done it before. We developed the WomenTech sections of three community college Web sites so we already have the templates, interview questions and even a role-model database. Don't wait, contact Donna Milgram and go live with women's content for your Web site soon! click here

For more information on this service, including the URLs for the WomenTech Web sites we've already done, click here. 

WomenTech Training in Your State
We can bring our in-depth two-day training, presented by Donna Milgram, to your state or school. This longer training includes an additional full module specifically geared to recruiting women and girls to Information Technology, as well as time to develop a detailed recruitment and retention plan. Make girl geeks cool in your school; help (some) female students overcome their fear of breaking the computer; excite and engage female students in technology by teaching to their learning style. For more information click here.