STEM Lab Podcast

An Upward Bound Summer Creation

An Upward Bound Summer Creation

In celebration of Women's History Month, a panel of women who 30 years ago embarked on their STEM journey at the Alabama School of Math and Science, share their successes and challenges as women on their STEM journey. Join us for an amazing evening of memories, good conversation surrounding STEM, and sharing of wisdom with future STEM-inist.

An Upward Bound Summer Creation

Another Upward Bound Summer Creation,

Ansley Booker is a native of Eatonton, Georgia. She attended Georgia Southern University and earned a bachelor’s in biology with a minor in chemistry. In 2007, she was selected for the Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Program. She earned a master’s degree from the University of Georgia in pharmacy with certificates in Clinical Trials and Regulatory Affairs. 

 In 2016, she was named to Georgia Southern University’s 40 under 40 as well as awarded the STAR Award by Mercer University.

Dr. Booker earned her doctorate degree from Mercer University in the Ph.D. in Higher Education Leadership program. Her dissertation focused on African American women who have obtained STEM graduate degrees. Her goal is to unearth barriers and catalysts to their graduate and career success to develop retention models that may improve the college persistence of women and minority students in STEM programs.

Watch Dr. Booker’s TEDx Talk, "Unhidden Figures: Uncovering Our Cultural Biases in STEM.” 

We begin the new year with our quarterly report from Nurse LuLu's corner. LuSharn Colvin, a Registered Nurse specializing in Mental Health talks candidly with the STEM Lab Podcast about the 2021 Mental Health in America  Report.  She believes the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our mental health and we should refocus and center ourselves in 2021. Takeaway: If you have a workout plan for 2021 you also need a mental health plan. Let's go!

Real I.M.P.A.C.T Center, Inc.'s mission is to provide the youth with support in academics and prevention services in order to develop Intelligent and Motivated People to Actively Change the Times through a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and literacy focus. We are doing our part to help inspire youth girls to excel in life through exposure to STEM. We thrive to encourage girls to explore STEM careers. Our goal is to increase the number of girls/women pursuing a STEM lifestyle and create a network that help women in STEM thrive with confidence. 

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Play Like a Girl started as a means to fight poor nutrition and lack of physical activity for girls. But in 2014, ESPN recognized Dr. Clay for the work her organization did through a tennis program. That was when she acknowledged her work as a sports organization. In summer 2019, she announced the program’s expansion to include girls-only STEM clubs and lunch-hour mentoring circles in local schools, industry-led STEM tours or Corporate Field Trips and STEM Saturday makerspace workshops where girls get to ideate, create and test the engineering design process. The demand for programming continues to grow every year, with hundreds of groups across the country partnering with us to bring Play Like a Girl to girls in their communities. Since inception, we have proudly served over 25,000 girls and women across the United States and Canada, as well as in Africa and the Caribbean.

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Lab Rascals is the  #1 diverse e-learning community, inviting all children to explore the wonder of learning in a live virtual classroom. Each e-lab is bustling with little learners from more than seven different nationalities! Right now, less than 8% of America’s highest-paid scientists, techies, engineers, and mathematicians are people of color. So we need you to join us in building the next exceedingly diverse generation go STEM professionals! Becoming a Lab Rascal makes your child a major part of this exciting solution.

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