{"id":2718,"date":"2012-07-09T13:39:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T21:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2012-07-09T13:39:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T21:39:55","slug":"my-daughter-is-an-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/?p=2718","title":{"rendered":"Women in Engineering: My Daughter is an Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To increase diversity in the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), the California Space Grant Consortium supported this summer&#8217;s &#8220;My Daughter is an Engineer&#8221; program, July 6-8, 2012. This program is designed for high-performing middle school girls to explore the field of engineering. This year, the program had its highest participation yet with 19 parent-daughter pairs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During this three day camp, daughters and their mother or father resided at the CSU Long Beach campus and participated in engineering-based activities including academic success skills, engineering in everyday life, and STEM hands-on projects. As part of this experience, K-12 educators worked alongside parent-daughter pairs and received additional aerospace engineering content related to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/about\/directorates\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA Mission Directorates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the &#8220;My Daughter is an Engineer Program&#8221;, click the following two links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csulbwomenengr.org\/my-daughter-is-an-engineer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/urd.thirdparty.csulb.edu\/news-events\/story.cfm?hackid=1827\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To watch a video on the program, click <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/csulbwomenengr.org\/file\/d\/0B-5MZIUYr_Z9Sl9aQ1pVNDQ3RkE\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To view a slide show of images from the event, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daily49er.com\/news\/my-daughter-is-an-engineer-photo-slideshow-1.2747209#.UAmvDZHzM_f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2719\" href=\"http:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/?attachment_id=2719\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2719\" title=\"daughter\" src=\"http:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/daughter.jpg\" alt=\"Mother\/Daughter pair and Tehseen Lazzouni\" width=\"290\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2724\" href=\"http:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/?attachment_id=2724\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2724\" title=\"Doc1\" src=\"http:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Doc1.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To increase diversity in the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), the California Space Grant Consortium supported this summer&#8217;s &#8220;My Daughter is an Engineer&#8221; program, July 6-8, 2012. This program is designed for high-performing middle school girls to explore the field of engineering. This year, the program had its highest participation yet with 19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}