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Subject: MIT Summer Women's Technology Program Seeks 11th Grade
Female Applicants Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:12:59 -0500 From:
Cynthia Skier <mailto:cskier@xxxxxxx><cskier@xxxxxxx> To: 'Eric
Klopfer' <mailto:klopfer@xxxxxxx><klopfer@xxxxxxx>,
<mailto:jenniep@xxxxxxx><jenniep@xxxxxxx>
Hello Eric and Jennie,
I was wondering whether you could forward this email message to your high
school teacher contacts (in NEST and SEPT) about the Women's Technology
Program here at MIT, to invite some of their students to apply for summer
2009. Our application and program information are up on our website now,
and the submission deadline is January 15th.
Thank you very much for helping me spread the word!
--Cynthia Skier
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The MIT Women's Technology Program (WTP) is a four-week summer residential
academic experience that introduces high school girls to engineering and
computer science. Our goals are to interest girls in studying engineering
and computer science, and to help them recognize their potential for success
in these fields.
We would like to invite your female students now in grade 11 to apply who:
* love and excel at advanced math and science but have very little or no
prior experience in engineering or computer science
* would like to experience hands-on activities where they design and build
engineering projects
* enjoy problem solving and collaborative learning
* want to spend 4 summer weeks challenging their minds, working hard, and
making friends with girls from around the U.S. who share their math and
science interests
Sixty students are selected each year from a nationwide applicant pool; they
attend WTP in either Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) or
Mechanical Engineering (ME). Our classes are taught by female MIT graduate
students, and involve team-based projects and college-level material.
A poster describing WTP is available at our website
<http://wtp.mit.edu>http://wtp.mit.edu and
can be printed out for posting on your school bulletin boards or for
distribution to interested students.
To apply students should download the WTP Application from our web site; the
application deadline is January 15, 2009.
Please contact us if you have any questions. We hope to see some of your
female students apply for summer 2009!
Sincerely,
Cynthia Skier
WTP Director and EECS Track Coordinator
Dr. Barbara Hughey
WTP Associate Director and ME Track Coordinator
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jennie pakradooni
program manager, sept/nest
assistant to prof. eric klopfer
massachusetts institute of technology
77 massachusetts ave. bldg. 9-424
cambridge, ma 02139
ph/ 617.253.4197
web.mit.edu/scienceprogram/
education.mit.edu/drupal/
