2018 SELF flyer The SELF Institute is a cost-free residential program for rural high school students. The three- and-a-half day program will focus on the responsible use of forest ecosystems as a building block for sustainable and renewable energy. Students will explore cutting-edge forest bioproducts research by participating in demonstrations, hands-on projects and field trips […]
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Washington Post September 23, 2016 Portland Press Herald 916 Our View_ Though parity is far off, engineering gender gap narrows at University of Maine
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College of Engineering & FBRI offer programs for youth girls at the University of Maine
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University of Maine have begun planning for the 2016 Expanding Your Horizons conference. This year’s conference will be held on Thursday, March 17th at the University of Maine. The conference offers middle school girls from across Maine the chance to experience careers in the STEM fields. Experience is gained through interactive-workshops led by female role models employed […]
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Lynda will be the first guest speaker of GEM. For more about Lynda, please click on the following: Lynda Fredette, Civil Engineer
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Since 2009 UMaine’s College of Engineering and UMaine Cooperative Extension hosted as many as 100 young high school and middle school girls from Maine 4-H clubs in four Maine counties. This is the first time that GEM is involved in inviting the elementary school age girls. There will be about 10 4-H girls and […]
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Four girls scouts from Hermon and one from Veazie with two troop leaders are participating in the Regional Girl Scouts Engineering Series program. They are spending an hour each Thursday afternoons from 4pm-5pm in different engineering labs of the UMaine Engineering College.
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