Future Fest
In-Person
9-12:30 PM Eastern
Approximate Attendees: 100-300
"STEM is a big part of the future. Our girls will have trades and other careers to choose from, but, increasingly, our labor market is focusing on highly technical careers. From actuaries to engineers, programmers to astronomers, biochemists to cyber security analysts, and so much more, our girls will need to be forming strong foundations in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics in order to succeed in today's rapidly growing world. Since Vermont and New Hampshire are, for the most part, such rural areas, our girls don't frequently have opportunities to hear from these types of women—whose careers have expanded to a national and/or global focus and who are doing incredibly important work to move society forward.
Our event will feature many people from many different occupations, but it is likely to have an outsized presence of STEM fields, as both VT and NH have higher percentages of the workforce in STEM jobs than the nation's average (26.4% in VT and 27.8% in NH, compared to 24% nationwide). We would find it incredibly beneficial to have an AstraFemina speaker who could provide girls with a solid overview of STEM fields (as well as the speaker's specific field of expertise) and who could answer any questions girls might have about entering such fields. Frequently, our girls just don't know where or how to get started when it comes to entering a fascinating STEM field, so being able to have these conversations with an AstraFemina speaker would be incredibly advantageous to the girls of GSGWM."
AstraFemina Speaker Role: "We are highly flexible in what the speaker could choose to engage with us on. I put 9-12:30 as the time slot, but that is the entire length of the event. She is welcome to stay for all or some. We would love for her to be the opening speaker from 9-9:30. Furthermore, if she wanted to stay for the entire event, she could serve on our expert panel and/or run hands-on activities during our 4 rotating sessions (9:45-12:15)."
