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In 2022, Mattel sent two Barbie dolls to the ISS for Mission DreamStar, and their filmed trip became part of a STEM video seriesIn 2022, two Barbie dolls took a stellar trip to the International Space Station as part of the exciting Mission DreamStar. These dolls, be...
Melinda French Gates’ NASA connection: How her aerospace engineer father, Apollo missions and women in STEM shaped her journey in tech and philanthropyMelinda French Gates’ childhood was shaped by her father Raymond Joseph French Jr.’s aerospace career during the NASA Apollo era. Her fathe...
In 1990s, an Indian American inventor created a dental material that restored over 1 billion teethSumita Mitra's curiosity inspired a dental filling material from observing grape clusters. She developed nanoclusters, mimicking grapes for...
Failure didn't stop them! 750 Indian schoolgirls faced failure on their first space mission; their second satellite is now orbiting close to ISSAzaadiSAT-2, carrying experiments by 750 Indian schoolgirls, successfully entered Earth's orbit. This achievement followed an initial launc...
An award-winning American actress, she took a break from acting to earn PhD in neuroscience from UCLA. Then she added more achievements to her acting careerMayim Bialik is known for her role as Amy Farrah Fowler on The Big Bang Theory. She began her acting career decades before this popular sit...
Meet Prithvi Sanghani: Farmer's daughter who helped build the autopilot system for India's first privately developed orbital rocket, Vikram-1Prithvi Sanghani, from a farming family, played a key role in Vikram-1's autopilot system. This Indian space startup's rocket achieved its ...
Women make for 35 pc STEM graduates globally; maths, gender stereotypes major reasons: UNESCOUNESCO's GEM team reveals that women constitute only 35% of STEM graduates globally, a figure stagnant for a decade, attributing it to low ...
Promoting STEM education and women’s participation in tech fieldsSTEM education is critical for societal and personal development, requiring increased participation from women. Despite progress, stereotyp...
PM Modi to inaugurate Boeing India's tech centre campus near BengaluruPrime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate Boeing's new engineering and technology centre campus. The 43-acre campus is the company's lar...
Tech companies roll up sleeves to get more women into STEM jobsAs of 2023, women account for 27% of India’s STEM workforce, compared to 32% of the non-STEM workforce, according to the recent Global Gend...
P&G India to introduce career relaunch program for STEM professionalsThe initiative called ‘P&G ReLaunch program’ is part of the company’s commitment to strengthen diversity in STEM and will focus on people l...
IBM rolls out 'STEM for Girls' programme in Arunachal Pradesh"The programme will benefit over 13,500 students across 130 secondary and higher secondary schools," the company said.
IBM to impart digital skill to 12,000 girl students in NagalandThe IBM Stem for girls programme, currently running in 12 states that include Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Haryana, Punjab, Rajast...
Encouraging Participation of Women In STEM
Bridging the gap for women in science and technologyWe have learned that broadening access to education entails more than setting up the infrastructure, the school, classes, materials, and tr...
IBM rolls out STEM programme for girlsThe ‘STEM Education for Girls’ programme will be spread across Karnataka, Telangana, National Capital Region and Mumbai/Pune in the first b...
Women less likely to pursue STEM careers, says surveyMeasures taken during college education would help prepare young women better to go the distance in STEM careers, the survey suggested.
Majority of girls prefer a career in science and technology: ReportThe research reveals that a majority of STEM graduates were clear on their choice of career and decided to pursue the stream in college at ...
TCS and MWM reach 6,50,000 pledges for STEM MentorsMWM has more than 650,000 pledges, with participation from 55 corporate partners and 67 nonprofit, education and media partners.
IT, tech companies going to schools to improve gender diversityCatching them young, a strategy adopted by companies operating in the IT and tech space to improve upon their gender diversity, appears to ...