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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