Building Collaborative Networks to Support Women of Color in User-Experience and Technology Design
By Laura Gonzales This blog post contains excerpts from the keynote presentation our team shared at the 2020 Special Interest Group for...
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CGEST Staff
Apr 21, 20211 min read
Congratulations Shalini!
Shalini Vijayaraghavan, Barrett Honors Fellow has worked at CGEST for the 2020-21 academic year with Dr. Nkrumah as an intern. She has...
CGEST Staff
Apr 20, 20211 min read
Summer Tech Courses for Middle School Girls
The Digital Culture Summer Institute at ASU has received grant support to offer two free classes for 6th–9th graders in June. Both of...
CGEST Staff
Apr 20, 20211 min read
Congratulations, Rachel!!
We want to give a huge shout-out to one of our student workers Rachel Ware! On Saturday, April 10, Rachel, ASU graduating senior and...
Dr. Tara Nkrumah
Mar 29, 20212 min read
A Defining Moment
Kaylie’s Black History Month Project Black History month 2021, no different than any other month, I continue to prioritize educating...
CGEST Staff
Mar 27, 20212 min read
Kite Day is Easy Science Play
By: Alexus Robertson Have you been to Arizona lately to enjoy this windy weather? Those storms all around the western states have been...
CGEST Staff
Feb 20, 20212 min read
For the Kids: Flower Watercolor Paint
By: Alexus Robertson The beauty of science is it can be seen every day in the world all around us. Life is one big science experiment and...
CGEST Staff
Feb 9, 20212 min read
CompuGirls: Demonstrating STEM Education Can Be Better
Written by: Dr. Christine O'Donnell CGEST’s CompuGirls programs were a main draw for me to join CGEST as a Postdoctoral Researcher. My...
Guest Blogger
Jan 27, 20212 min read
'Auamo kuleana
By Dr. Toni Kaui This evening, I joined a webinar to listen to Manu Aluli Meyer share her scholarship of Hawaiian epistemology, and...
Dr. Kimberly Scott
Jan 25, 20213 min read
Forward Thinking for Our Girls
A few days after the highly publicized attack on the U.S. Capitol, education organizations thoughtfully and rapidly provided lists for...
CGEST Staff
Jan 23, 20212 min read
For the Kids - Rocket Balloon Experiment
By: Alexus Robertson As a working mother it is hard to be creative with activities for the kids. I know most of us have so much on our...
Dr. Tara Nkrumah
Jan 22, 20212 min read
Behind the Scenes of Writing Culturally Relevant Curriculum
By Tara Nkrumah, PhD In the early 2000s, I taught predominantly African American and Latinx high school students the subject of science....
CGEST Staff
Jan 21, 20212 min read
A Day of Reckoning for the White Academy
We want to congratulate our very own Dr. Tara Nkrumah on her latest publication in Cultural Studies of Science Education. This piece...
CGEST Staff
Jan 5, 20211 min read
CompuGirl Spring Camp Curriculum Calendar
We’re excited to announce our CompuGirls Hawai’i Spring Camp beginning February 20th, 2021! This nine-week course continues the...
CGEST Staff
Dec 23, 20202 min read
CompuGirl Camp Topic: Cybersecurity
With our latest announcement of the CompuGirl Hawai'i Spring Camp starting in February 2021, we wanted to introduce you to some of the...
CGEST Staff
Dec 12, 20202 min read
Kid's Corner
Happy holidays, family! This year has been one for the history books. Our children will tell stories about their 2020 experience until...
CGEST Staff
Dec 10, 20201 min read
COMPUPOWER with Elaine Arrieta and Dr. Tara Nkrumah
Elaine Arrieta, the education outreach specialist with CGEST, is surveying rural schools in Arizona to determine the resources impacting...
CGEST Staff
Dec 9, 20202 min read
Learning in Libraries Grant
We recently spoke with Cecilia Fernandez, a postdoctoral research fellow for the University of Michigan School of Information, about the...
CGEST Staff
Dec 8, 20201 min read
Pilot Launch of AISL
CGEST is excited to announce that our NSF-funded project Advanced Informal STEM Learning (AISL) completed its pilot phase in October...
CGEST Staff
Dec 4, 20202 min read
Surviving the Pandemic Through Digital Storytelling
When the world changed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, CGEST postponed our annual Women of Color in Entrepreneurship Conference. A...
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