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FULL STEAM AHEAD!
AAUW of Utah
Rocky Mountain Regional Conference
July 15, 2016
STEM + ART = STEAM
Overview
• AAUW of Utah convention: Full Steam Ahead!
• AAUW Fellow Portia Strahan
• STEM projects: AWE+SUM and E-Smart
• Branch Fundraisers – Promoting Women’s Achievements in Utah
• Utah Women Artists Exhibition update
AAUW OF UTAH
STATE CONVENTION
APRIL 29-30, 2016
STEAM Panel
How to Incorporate Art into STEM
Kassandra VerbrugghenMPA, Executive Director, Spyhop (youth digital media)
Stacy FirthPh.D., Associate Instructor, Chemical Engineering, University of Utah
Technology, Art
Engineering
Maggie CummingsPh.D., Associate Instructor, Mathematics, University of Utah
Angela DarvallEducation Program Specialist, Utah Museum of Natural History
Math
Science
PORTIA STRAHAN
AAUW FELLOW
COLLEGE OF
ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
Portia Strahan
• Involved in art from an early age
• Artistic background + imaginative thinking = design ideas
• Design ideas + Technology = architectural reality
• Foundation of art and design = explore design solution.
2016- CLASSROOM
GONZALO CALQUIN WEI CHEN SAM HUNT COLBY KALIAN TAYLOR REARDON CONNOR STEPHENS TANNER STOUT MAX WOOD
WHITNEY HATFIELD PORTIA STRAHAN DANI GIANNONE NANCY KOLE BAYLEE LAMBOURNE
Design Build Bluff
Design Build Bluff
AWE+SUMSUMMER CAMP
AttendWestminsterExploreScienceUnderstandMath
AWE+SUMKaleidoscope Project
ST. GEORGE BRANCH
ESMART & TECHSAVVY
eSMART Camp
• Exploring Science, Math, And Related Technologies• For girls entering the eighth grade in fall 2016• Four-day summer session• Subject matter workshops• Team building exercises• Art projects & Physical Activity
TechSavvy
• For sixth-ninth grade girls and their parents & guardians• One of only 22 sites nationally• Daylong STEM career conference• Workshops on Lego Robotics, Computer Programming,
Microbiology, Anatomy, Astronomy, Chemistry and more!
Hosted by Dixie State University
BRANCH FUNDRAISERS:
PROMOTING WOMEN’SACHIEVEMENTS IN UTAH
Wasatch Branch FundraiserUtah Women Authors
Valynne Maetani, author of INK AND ASHES, a contemporary novel featuring 4th generation Japanese-American teens
Susan Imhoff Bird, author of HOWL OF WOMAN AND WOLF, preservation of wildness in the heart as well as a shrinking wilderness
Sue Nissen, AAUW Fund chair and Event Organizer
Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey, author of memoir GASA GASA GIRL GOES TO CAMP: A Nisei Youth behind a World War II Fence
Salt Lake City Branch Fundraiser
Pat Jones, Executive Director, Womens Leadership Institute* Maxine Haggerty, AAUW Fund Chair & Event Organizer
* The Institute was formed to address Utah’s deficiencies in the presence of women at the top levels of corporate and political leadership.
St. George Branch Fundraisers Extraordinaire
UTAH WOMEN ARTISTS EXHIBITION
• Trustees - fundraising1
• Catalog preparation2
• Opening Reception3
Utah Women Artists’ Exhibition
Awards Presentationat Opening Reception
Marianne (Harrison) Lawrence presented the Lawrence Family Award of Merit: “We congratulate you on your amazing talent. If my Mother-in-Law were here tonight,
she would be so excited for you, as we are...We salute you all here tonight, and inmemory of Genevieve [Lawrence], we as her family salute her dedication!”
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