2024 SELF Camp
Connecting young rural girls to STEM careers through research, mentoring and community service in forest bio-products
News
- Science interviews Sandweiss on fertilizer in Pre-Incan societies
- Goode discusses lobster baby boom with Press Herald
- Fox Bangor features UMaine Career Fair
- ‘Maine Calling’ segment on Declaration of Independence features Riordan
- The Conversation publishes Socolow’s piece on Olympic star Clarence ‘Taffy’ Abel
- Popular Science features UMaine alumna’s right whale research
- UMaine fraternity members featured on Fox Bangor for community service
- News Center Maine features UMaine’s Wild Blueberry Conference
- AP features Kopec on PFAS in sludge used as fertilizer
- WAGM-TV features new edition of Passamaquoddy-Maliseet dictionary published by UMaine Press
GEM is a statewide educational outreach program designed to increase the number of women studying engineering in Maine.
GEM aims to help high school and middle school girls to understand better what engineers do as well encourage girls to explore how to prepare for an engineering career
Gem outreach activities include
- Engineering Awareness Days when girls from middle school and high school girls in small group spend a day at the University of Maine exploring engineering and doing hands on projects in different engineering labs with the faculty and their graduate and undergraduate students.
- Visits to their alma mater schools by the current female engineering students
- School visits by the university faculty to talk to the students in middle schools and high schools
- Workshops for teachers and guidance counselors