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There are 6 item(s) tagged with the keyword "Equity in tech".
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1. Get To Know ETR: David Manuel Torres, Research Assistant
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By ETR | August 21, 2019
David Torres is one of ETR’s great data wranglers. This means he spends a lot of his time making sure the raw data collected on his projects is clean and consistent before running analyses on it. “That’s actually about 80% of my work on a project,” he explains. “The analysis is the fun part, but the cleaning is the most important. If you start with inaccurate data, you get inaccurate interpretations.”
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2. NSF Video Hall & Spanish Family Code Night: ETR Makes a Movie!
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By David Manuel Torres | June 13, 2019
Research Assistant, ETREvery year, the National Science Foundation (NSF) hosts a unique virtual event—a week-long STEM for All Video Showcase. In the videos, Principal Investigators, practitioners and researchers describe federally funded projects that seek to improve and innovate within STEM education. The brief videos are posted and viewed globally. This year, I joined up with ETR Senior Research Scientist Jill Denner and Senior Editor Marcia Quackenbush to create an ETR video for the NSF showcase.
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3. High School Youth Design Innovative Tech Solutions for Better Mental Health
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By Laiah Idelson, MSPH | June 4, 2019
Strategic Partnerships & Innovation Lead, YTH Initiative, ETRWhat happens when a motivated, creative group of high school juniors and seniors is asked, “How might we use technology to create an innovative solution to improve the mental health of young people?”
To answer this question, our team conducted nine workshops from January through April this year. Seventy-seven juniors and seniors at De Anza High School in Richmond, CA, joined in.
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4. Equity in STEM: It Takes More Than Individual Determination
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By Louise Ann Lyon, PhD | October 9, 2018
Senior Research Associate, ETRThe mainstream culture in the U.S. values independence. As a nation, we esteem individual actions and view them as paths to success. “Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is an admirable trait.
However, that focus is not the full picture.
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5. Reflections, Connections, Enthusiasm and One Really Great Luncheon!
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Emily Green, MA | July 24, 2018
Research Associate, ETRETR is a distributed workforce. This means we have four sites spread over three cities, along with a team of remote workers spread all over the country. This helps strengthen our ability to reach different populations and bring talented people on board who wouldn’t be able to commute to one of our physical offices.
If you work in the field of Equity and Inclusion in STEM, you’ll recognize this as a structural model that encourages greater diversity in a workforce.
- By Emily Green, MA
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6. Work Is Not the Enemy of Education: Let's Consider Stackable Credentials
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By Louise Ann Lyon, PhD | May 31, 2018
Senior Research Associate, ETRWhat comes first for young adults? Education? Or Work?
In this culture, we usually view education and work as sequential stages rather than part of a mutually enhancing cycle. Our ideal seems to be that secondary and post-secondary students need to focus on school and should not be working during the school year. At the same time, we expect education to give students skills they will need in the workplace.
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