2024 SELF Camp
Connecting young rural girls to STEM careers through research, mentoring and community service in forest bio-products
News
- Acclaimed actor Timothy Simons ’01 to deliver University of Maine’s 2026 undergraduate commencement address
- National Geographic features new maps on Inuit homelands in Canada
- Concert at UMaine with more than 200 high schoolers highlighted by WABI
- Down East Magazine features UMaine Atlantic bluefin tuna research
- Media highlight maple syrup making at UMaine ahead of Maine Maple Sunday Weekend
- ‘The Maine Question’ explores the reality of ‘forever chemicals’
- ‘Leadership in the High North’ symposium to explore Maine’s role in the Arctic
- Semester by the Sea immerses UMaine students in coastal research, careers
- New vessel expands ocean exploration, marine research for UMaine students
- Former U.S. ambassador and State Department official to deliver 2026 Cohen Lecture at UMaine April 2
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