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Bring IWITTS to Your State! Contact Donna
Strategies that work! Our one-day WomenTech train-the-trainer programs help states and local communities prepare women and girls for technology careers. With a combination of interactive video, case studies, online web browsing and short PowerPoint lecture presentations, you get an exciting and extremely informative session, plus everything you need to know to educate others. And, since the bulk of the workshop is done in small groups, it's also a great opportunity to interact with and learn from others in your field.
Conducted by our experienced and dynamic statewide trainer, Ede Slovin,known for her wonderful sense of humor, this fast-paced interactive one-day workshop helps technology instructors, school administrators, school-to-career coordinators, math and science teachers,  equity coordinators and counselors to:
- Develop a plan for recruiting women and girls to traditionally male-dominated classes that you can put to use right away. Covers both high school and community college recruitment strategies.
- Work through case studies with colleagues on retention problems that arise in classes where the number of female students is small. Help female students withstand negative peer pressure and connect with female role models.
Sponsors for these stand-alone, train-the-trainer sessions include:
- Advanced Technology Education Projects/Centers
- State and County Education Departments
- Community Colleges
- School-to-Career Programs
- Tech-Prep Consortiums
- Vocational Equity Coordinators
- Nonprofits
- Collaborative partnerships
Because we want to reach as many people as possible with our educational materials, we offer deep discounts on our WomenTech Educator publications for training attendees.
Two-day training, technology focus: We can bring our in-depth two-day training, presented by Karen Wosczyna-Birch, to your state. This longer training includes an additional full module specifically geared to recruiting women and girls to 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.
Contact Donna Milgram, our Executive Director, to schedule a local training with Ede Slovin or with Dr. Karen Wosczyna-Birch click here.
Meet our statewide trainers, who have delivered over 100 national, state and local WomenTech workshops:
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 Ede Slovin is an experienced and dynamic trainer with a wonderful sense of humor who has trained for IWITTS since 1999.
Ms. Slovin served for ten years as Director of the New Directions program at Seminole (FL) Community College, where she had hands-on experience in the technical education and equity fields assisting single parents, displaced homemakers and single pregnant women in earning degrees and certificates in technology and trades. She is currently the Executive Director of the Options! Program, which is a community based organization for Empowerment, Education and Employment.
For more, see Ede's bio.
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 Karen Wosczyna-Birch has delivered this fast-paced interactive workshop to states and local communities since 2006. Dr. Wosczyna-Birch brings stellar qualifications from her own career in the sciences, where she has received numerous awards for her accomplishments in preparing students for emerging technologies and in gender equity.
She currently serves as the State Director of Connecticut's College of Technology, as a Professor of Applied Science and Technology, and as the Executive Director of the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing. Karen offers a unique hands-on perspective to participants in her training sessions.
For more, see Karen's bio.
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