LEXINGTON, Ky., April 29, 2023 – The Kentucky affiliate of the National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT) , in partnership with KY NSF EPSCoR and the University of Kentucky, recognized the 2023 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing (AiC) recipients at an Awards Bruncheon, honoring 11 high school students from 6 schools across Kentucky. Each year, U.S. high …
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KY NSF EPSCoR Education, Outreach, and Communication awards provide funding for individuals and organizations across the commonwealth seeking to engage students and citizens in Advanced Manufacturing STEM topics. Berea College, a private liberal arts college about an hour south of Lexington, is using these awards to support VR curriculum for as part of their Yahng …
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On March 8th, KY NSF EPSCoR’s own Rosemary Fama was part of an international webinar hosted by Million Women Mentors, of which Fama serves as a state leader in Kentucky. According to their website, “Million Women Mentors is the premier network dedicated to encouraging girls and women around the world to pursue, persist and succeed …
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Our education & outreach grant (EOD) is supporting the @KYScience Center’s Youth Science Summit this year on 3/15! Our EOD provides support funding for individuals and organizations across the state seeking to engage students and citizens in Advanced Manufacturing STEM topics through Education, outreach + communication. More info on the Science Summit: https://kysciencecenter.org/programs/youth-science-summit/
KY NSF EPSCoR would like to recognize the Trailblazer awards granted to both Dr. Czar Crofcheck and Rosemary Fama by the Million Women Mentors organization. Through the Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative Project and other programs, they have demonstrated significant & ongoing commitments to amplifying & advancing the MWM Network, and exceptional commitment to advancing opportunities …
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KY NSF EPSCoR is pleased announce a second year of working with the Kentucky Science Center, this time funding a new program, “STEM Career Explorations: MakerLEAP.” It is focused on Leading, Engineering, Advancing and Progressing students across the state to explore STEM careers through maker-based projects. Each kit, with support and guidance from KSC educators, …
Eric Wooldridge and his Somerset Community College (SCC) team are earning a reputation of firsts. Today was no different as they became the first host of nanoCollider, KY NSF EPSCoR’s new monthly collaboration meeting, with rotating host institutions. KY NSF EPSCoR nanoColliders allow for participants to more broadly identify opportunities to enhance existing cross-institutional collaborations …
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A Super Collider is a physics term of a collider in which superconducting magnets are used to accelerate particles to energies of millions of megavolts. Like its namesake, KY NSF EPSCoR’s SuperCollider promotes accelerating of ideas, the attraction of researchers from across the state, thus producing the megavolts necessary to advance manufacturing in Kentucky. On …
