Create action plans based on proven strategies to achieve up to 25-50% female enrollment in your STEM classes!
WomenTech Educators Online Summer Bootcamp
Empowering Educators to Recruit and Retain Women in STEM!
LIVE Online Immersion Training Event on August 5-6, 2015
Dear STEM Educator,
Are you frustrated because you have excellent STEM classes and programs but few, if any, female students?
If you're like me, you have a PASSION for ensuring that every woman and girl feels empowered to choose a career in science, technology, engineering and
math (STEM).
But, the reality is, the percentage of female students choosing STEM in the United States is going down. And even when they choose STEM majors, one-third to a half transfer out.
Many educators who really, sincerely want to have more female students are held back by popular but ineffective gender equity outreach and retention methods that, simply put, don't work.

If you're like most of the educators I work with, you have
extraordinary STEM programs...
But you're struggling to recruit and retain more women in STEM.
![]() |
You're confused about how to attract female students to your STEM programs |
![]() |
You have limited time and want to ensure your recruitment efforts are effective and efficient |
![]() |
You finally recruited one or two female students... Only to have them drop out |
![]() |
Your male retention rate also needs improvement |
If this sounds familiar, I want to help you break through to finally enroll more women in STEM—AND retain them (while improving male retention rates, as well).
I've dedicated my entire career to helping educational institutions have actual increases in female enrollment and retention.

As the Principal Investigator of 5 National Science Foundation grants, I've worked intensively with schools—boots on the ground—to develop the strategies and system that help educators enroll up to 25-50% female students in STEM classes.
My NSF-funded CalWomenTech Project was highlighted by the National Science Foundation for demonstrating significant achievement and program effectiveness and chosen as 1 of 3 model projects by the American Association of University Women (AAUW).
After 30 years of service in the field, I've "cracked the code" and developed an 8 point system for recruitment and a 12 point system for retention that provides numerical results in about one year—not just the hope of eventual change 5-10 years down the road that nobody can measure.
I've developed recruitment and retention plan templates based on my 20 point system that requires you to use the plan elements which have resulted in success for so many of our past WomenTech Educators Training participants. I've even created templated personal encouragement and welcoming conversation guides.
I know busy educators don't have time to figure this out all by themselves. That's why I developed rich supplementary online resources that range from examples of women in STEM recruitment videos, to a tested NSF-based spatial reasoning curricula that improves retention.
I love being able to make such a big impact on STEM classrooms around the country, and in turn on the lives of women and girls who have the opportunity to reach their full potential.
I am committed to finding as many ways as possible to get our proven system out to the world. This Summer Bootcamp version of our WomenTech Educators Training is an online version of our 2-day Live Event for those who want to immerse themselves in the knowledgebase and walk away with a recruitment and retention plan that they have customized to their school. Just like in the Live Event, you'll have the opportunity to ask me questions and to volunteer to receive feedback on a section of your plan in front of your fellow Online Summer Bootcamp "recruits!"
So in case you're not convinced that you really can improve recruitment and retention of your female students in your teaching lifetime, here are some of the results of past participants in our WomenTech Educators Training.

It's possible to nearly double the female students in your STEM classes.
Read about the transformation of the STEM classrooms by our past WomenTech Educators Training participants.

Pam Silvers, Chairperson of Computer Technologies at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, in Asheville, NC, credits the live WomenTech Educators Training she attended with changing her approach to female enrollment and helping her to nearly double the female students in her STEM program from 39 to 76.

"Participating in the IWITTS training refined my skills as an instructor and administrator to be an agent of change in this realm. Because Computer Networking and Information Technology was not on the radar of many women, the tools that were given to us by IWITTS for reaching out to students for our entry level class were very effective. And those changes have been institutionalized in my department. Thanks to our work with IWITTS, female enrollment in my department has risen from 19% to 33%."
~ Pierre Thiry, Principal Investigator, Mid-Pacific ICT Regional Center, City College of San Francisco,
San Francisco, CA

"Before [attending the WomenTech Educators training] I had a lot more success retaining women in my database class than in my introductory programming classes -- actually I wasn't retaining any women in my introductory programming classes. They were all dropping. That was a big win for me, that I had an increase in retention of females in my introductory programming courses."
~ Barbara DuFrain, Associate Professor, CS, Engineering and Advanced Technology, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX, increased female enrollment in her introductory programming courses by 62% and female and male completion by 45%.

"Completely made me re-evaluate the approach that we have been taking. I realized the many mistakes and plan to make changes that I learned from the training. Great information!"
~ Hector Yanez, Department Chair/CADD Manager of Computer Drafting and Design Technology, Texas State Technical College, Harlingen, TX increased female enrollment from 11% to 37% in his Computer Drafting & Design Technology Program.
Learn the best practices that can increase female enrollment to up to 25-50% and improve female and male completion by 45%.
The WomenTech Educators Online Summer Bootcamp: Empowering Educators to Recruit and Retain Women in STEM, is the first online version of my popular annual 2-day Live Event. I have taken the knowledgebase of my WomenTech Educators Training, which includes a successful system created from my five National Science Foundation (NSF) projects and 30 years of experience helping educators recruit and retain more women in STEM, and presented it in an easy to access format that packs in as much information as possible.
Over the course of 2 days, you'll be immersed in my powerful WomenTech Educators Training program and learn all 20 of the required elements of my system. You'll walk away with recruitment and retention action plans that you will customize to your school. No matter how busy you are, you have the time for this 2-day investment that can transform the way you recruit and retain women (and men) in your STEM programs and classes.
Here's an overview of what you're going to learn in my WomenTech Educators Online Summer Bootcamp!
"What You'll Learn in 2 Amazing Days"
Day 1: Recruit
- Learn how to choose the "right" target audience for your recruitment goals so that you can go after the low-hanging fruit and enroll more women in your classes
- Understand how to build a Women in STEM Leadership Team so that you don't have to recruit more female students all by yourself
- Discover what excites women about technology and learn how to find female role models so that your outreach is more effective
- Leverage online recruitment strategies so more female students know about your STEM programs and you can recruit 24/7
- Find out how to execute event-based recruiting that actually leads to increases in female enrollment
- MILESTONE: Create a recruitment action plan you will customize to your school that will provide you with a roadmap to increasing female students in your STEM classes
Day 2: Retain
- Find out how to close the experience gap and level the playing field for ALL students including those with less informal STEM experience, so they all are retained
- Uncover strategies to help your female students feel welcome in the classroom and prevent them from dropping out in the first few weeks
- Learn how to appeal to the large group of women and girls who just aren't excited by STEM in its present form so they are engaged and complete your classes
- Discover the teaching practices and learning methods that dramatically increase retention of male and
female students - MILESTONE: Create a retention action plan you will customize to your school that will provide you with a roadmap to retaining more female (and male!) students in your STEM classes
You will take away:
- An easy-to-implement recruitment plan to increase female enrollment to up to 25-50% in your STEM programs and classes
- A retention plan for your school to increase the completion rate of your female (and male) students, starting this semester
- The knowledge and confidence you need to put these plans into action right away
* Bonus: You'll also receive, as free bonus tools, my Women in Technology Outreach Kit and STEM Bibliography to
help you save time and money and be even more successful (see below!)
Plus—Don't Miss Your Opportunity to Ask Questions
from the "Hot Seat!"
My WomenTech Educators Online Summer Bootcamp is not just a special opportunity to pack all of our training into just 2 days—without even leaving your desk! You'll also have a unique chance to get on the "Hot Seat" in front of other "recruits" and have your work on any of the elements of your recruitment and retention plans reviewed by me, Donna Milgram. Don't worry—I promise not to make you do push-ups if you give the wrong answer!
Top 5 Reasons to Attend This Event Now...
1. Receive my WomenTech Educators training in an immersive and convenient format.
In the past, I have only offered this 2-day event in person. Educators love my live trainings, but scheduling and capacity limitations have meant that some educators have not been able to have access to my valuable system. With my new Online Summer Bootcamp, as many educators around the country can join in as would like to—and you can leave the luggage
at home!
2. Get your recruitment and retention strategies in shape before school starts.
If you are ready to see more female faces in your STEM classrooms, my WomenTech Educators Online Summer Bootcamp is timed perfectly for you. Lay the groundwork before the fall semester starts by learning actionable recruitment and retention strategies, many of which can be implemented right away.
3. Take away valuable templates and strategies you can share with other educators.
My WomenTech Educators Training is designed to be actionable, because I want to see educators be able to create lasting change for female STEM students in their classes and programs. You'll leave the training equipped with recruitment and retention action plans, personal encouragement and welcoming conversation scripts, and other strategies that can benefit your entire department, in the coming academic year and beyond.
4. Maximize your learning while saving on travel.
While I love to welcome STEM educators to the Bay Area for my live trainings, travel can be a major issue when it comes to planning and departmental budgets. No longer. This is a training that truly only takes 2 days—not a conference that has you spending as much time at the airport as you will in the lecture hall.
5. Learn the strategies that will help you recruit and retain more women in STEM!
The strategies I'll be sharing in the WomenTech Educators Online Summer Bootcamp have empowered educators across the country to measurably increase the number of women in their STEM classes. If you've ever wanted to take the opportunity to engage in one of our trainings, now is the time.
"Sounds great Donna! But what if I'm not ready?"
Don't worry—my WomenTech Educators Program is easy to follow and I will personally lead you through it over the course of the WomenTech Educators Online Summer Bootcamp's 2 days! If you are a STEM educator dissatisfied with the number of female students in your classes and programs, that is all it takes to be "ready" for my Bootcamp—I'll be there to teach you everything else.
Over the past 21 years, since I've founded the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science, I've helped educators who feel like they've tried everything and educators who don't know where to begin. No matter where you stand, every classroom can benefit from the proven strategies for recruiting and retaining more women in STEM that I will be sharing in the WomenTech Educators Online Summer Bootcamp.
"I'm a male educator. Is the Bootcamp right for me?"
Yes! My 2-day intensive online event is a great fit for anyone who is involved in teaching STEM, male or female, especially at the community college level! We've had many male educators come through our WomenTech Educators Training and achieve excellent results. In fact, the majority of STEM educators are male, and I have done this training in the past with 100% male attendees. My WomenTech Educators Online Summer Bootcamp is open to all—the only thing we're focused on is laying the foundation for truly impactful change across your STEM programs.
"What if I'm too busy to attend?"
I know educators like you have busy schedules, even in the summer! That's why I've packed as much value as possible into these 2 days. I've even cut out travel time (and costs!) by making the WomenTech Educators Online Summer Bootcamp entirely online.
I know it's easy to get stuck in a busy cycle. But if you don't do anything different, your results will stay the same. If you're dissatisfied with your enrollment numbers, this 2-day event is the perfect opportunity to learn my WomenTech Educators Training knowledgebase all at once and take the first step toward increasing recruitment and retention of female (and male!) students in your classes and programs.
"What will I 'get' out of the WomenTech Educators
Online Summer Bootcamp?"
The WomenTech Educators Online Summer Bootcamp contains 8 hours of content on recruitment and 8 hours of content on retention. You'll receive my WomenTech Educators accompanying handouts, recruitment and retention plan templates, and the opportunity to have questions answered and participate through volunteering for the "Hot Seat." At the conclusion of my Bootcamp, you'll have the tools to put in place proven strategies that can help your STEM programs succeed, and help more female (and male) students along to fulfilling STEM careers.
Are you ready to...
- Adopt a program-wide "female-friendly" recruitment approach
- Communicate the benefits of STEM at each stage of the recruitment process
- Identify your target audience for recruitment and low-hanging fruit
- Make female students feel welcome in the classroom (and learn what not to do)
- Bolster the confidence of your STEM students to ensure success
- Help your female students be successful in the lab
- Teach the building block skills that help to close the experience gap
- Share with other faculty how to teach to female learning style
- Connect with female role models & create community
- Partner with faculty, administrators, student services, and others to work together and boost STEM retention
- Develop a leadership team and employ them effectively
Ready to join us?
Secure your seat PLUS receive my 2 free gifts!
Women in Technology Outreach Kit ($150 value)
This Outreach Kit plus the included Online Website Strategy Guide will help you increase the number of women in your school's technology programs. Recruit more women to your STEM programs with these fill-in-the blank templates for proven outreach materials. You'll take the guesswork out of your outreach.
STEM Resources for Instructors to Help Women and Girls: Annotated Bibliography ($35 value)
We've made it easy for you to find online role model resources that will help women and girls see themselves in all career pathways. Also, find sample curriculums and websites that teach programming in a female-friendly way. Don't miss this; it will save you many hours of researching this yourself.
Enroll a team of 6 or more educators for our Online Summer Bootcamp by July 31 and get an Exclusive VIP Session with IWITTS Executive Director and Bootcamp trainer Donna Milgram - just for your group! Valued at $1000, this VIP Session provides your team the exclusive opportunity to ask questions about recruitment and retention plans you'll develop during the Bootcamp, and any other questions specific to your institution's needs. Just sign up your team of 6+ below and we'll automatically apply this Exclusive VIP Session to your order.
The tuition for my WomenTech Educators Online Summer Bootcamp is only $497—an investment that can transform the way you recruit women to STEM and increase the number of women in your STEM classes.
The program and our gifts provide value that can be applied to your STEM classes for semesters to come.
I want you to have the tools you need to tackle the problems facing female STEM students at your institution. Remember, each and every one of you is part of the Women and STEM solution.
Join me for my WomenTech Educators Online Summer Bootcamp and let's achieve more STEM Success for Women!
Enroll and you will receive...
2-day WomenTech Educators Online Summer Bootcamp | $497 |
The Women in Technology Outreach Kit |
$150 |
The STEM Resources for Instructors to Help Women and Girls: Annotated Bibliography |
$35 |
TOTAL VALUE $682
ACTUAL TUITION $497
Empower Yourself with My WomenTech Educators Online
Summer Bootcamp!
Your Bootcamp Pass includes:
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My 2-day Online Summer Bootcamp held from 7am—3pm PT (10am—6pm ET) on August 5th-6th, 2015! |
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The content from my WomenTech Educators Online Knowledge Base |
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Women in Technology Outreach Kit ($150 value) |
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The STEM Resources for Instructors to Help Women and Girls: Annotated Bibliography ($35 value) |
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The opportunity to volunteer for the "Hot Seat" and get valuable feedback on your recruitment and retention action plans! |
Join Me at My WomenTech Educators Online Summer Bootcamp for Only $497!
I look forward to providing you with proven strategies and celebrating STEM Success for Women with you!
Warmly,
Donna Milgram
Executive Director, The National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science
P.S. - Without evidence-based strategies, it's difficult to achieve gender diversity at your educational institution. Learn how to recruit and retain more women in STEM at my WomenTech Educators Online Summer Bootcamp!
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Dear STEM Educator,
Are you frustrated because you have excellent STEM classes and programs but few, if any, female students?
If you're like me, you have a PASSION for ensuring that every woman and girl feels empowered to choose a career in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
But, the reality is, the percentage of female students choosing STEM in the United States is going down. And even when they choose STEM majors, one-third to a half transfer out.
Many educators who really, sincerely want to have more female students are held back by popular but ineffective gender equity outreach and retention methods that, simply put, don't work.
If you're like most of the educators I work with, you have
extraordinary STEM programs but you're struggling to recruit and retain more women in STEM....
![]() |
You're confused about how to attract female students to your STEM programs |
![]() |
You have limited time and want to ensure your recruitment efforts are effective and efficient |
![]() |
You finally recruited one or two female students... Only to have them drop out |
![]() |
Your male retention rate also needs improvement |
If this sounds familiar, I want to help you break through to finally enroll more women in STEM—AND retain them (while improving male retention rates, as well).
I've dedicated my entire career to helping educational institutions have actual increases in female enrollment and retention.

As the Principal Investigator of 5 National Science Foundation grants, I've worked intensively with schools—boots on the ground—to develop the strategies and system that help educators enroll up to 25-50% female students in STEM classes.
My NSF-funded CalWomenTech Project was highlighted by the National Science Foundation for demonstrating significant achievement and program effectiveness and chosen as 1 of 3 model projects by the American Association of University Women (AAUW).
After 30 years of service in the field, I've "cracked the code" and developed an 8 point system for recruitment and a 12 point system for retention that provides numerical results in about one year—not just the hope of eventual change 5-10 years down the road that nobody can measure.
I've developed recruitment and retention plan templates based on my 20 point system that requires you to use the plan elements which have resulted in success for so many of our past WomenTech Educators Training participants. I've even created templated personal encouragement and welcoming conversation guides.
I know busy educators don't have time to figure this out all by themselves. That's why I developed rich supplementary online resources that range from examples of women in STEM recruitment videos, to a tested NSF-based spatial reasoning curricula that improves retention.
I love being able to make such a big impact on STEM classrooms around the country, and in turn on the lives of women and girls who have the opportunity to reach their full potential.
I am committed to finding as many ways as possible to get our proven system out to the world. This Bootcamp version of our WomenTech Educators Training is an online version of our 2-day Live Event for those who want to immerse themselves in the knowledgebase and walk away with a recruitment and retention plan that they have customized to their school. Just like in the Live Event, you'll have the opportunity to ask me questions and to volunteer to receive feedback on a section of your plan in front of your fellow Online Bootcamp "recruits!"
So in case you're not convinced that you really can improve recruitment and retention of your female students in your teaching lifetime, here are some of the results of past participants in our WomenTech Educators Training.

It's possible to nearly double the female students in your STEM classes.
Read about the transformation of the STEM classrooms by our past WomenTech Educators Training participants.

Pam Silvers, Chairperson of Computer Technologies at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, in Asheville, NC, credits the live WomenTech Educators Training she attended with changing her approach to female enrollment and helping her to nearly double the female students in her STEM program from 39 to 76.

"Participating in the IWITTS training refined my skills as an instructor and administrator to be an agent of change in this realm. Because Computer Networking and Information Technology was not on the radar of many women, the tools that were given to us by IWITTS for reaching out to students for our entry level class were very effective. And those changes have been institutionalized in my department. Thanks to our work with IWITTS, female enrollment in my department has risen from 19% to 33%."
~ Pierre Thiry, Principal Investigator, Mid-Pacific ICT Regional Center, City College of San Francisco,
San Francisco, CA

"Before [attending the WomenTech Educators training] I had a lot more success retaining women in my database class than in my introductory programming classes -- actually I wasn't retaining any women in my introductory programming classes. They were all dropping. That was a big win for me, that I had an increase in retention of females in my introductory programming courses."
~ Barbara DuFrain, Associate Professor, CS, Engineering and Advanced Technology, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX, increased female enrollment in her introductory programming courses by 62% and female and male completion by 45%.

"Completely made me re-evaluate the approach that we have been taking. I realized the many mistakes and plan to make changes that I learned from the training. Great information!"
~ Hector Yanez, Department Chair/CADD Manager of Computer Drafting and Design Technology, Texas State Technical College, Harlingen, TX increased female enrollment from 11% to 37% in his Computer Drafting & Design Technology Program.
Learn the best practices that can increase female enrollment to up to 25-50% and improve female and male completion by 45%.
The WomenTech Educators Online Bootcamp: Empowering Educators to Recruit and Retain Women in STEM, is the first online version of my popular annual 2-day Live Event. I have taken the knowledgebase of my WomenTech Educators Training, which includes a successful system created from my five National Science Foundation (NSF) projects and 30 years of experience helping educators recruit and retain more women in STEM, and presented it in an easy to access format that packs in as much information as possible.
Over the course of 2 days, your team will be immersed in my powerful WomenTech Educators Training program and learn all 20 of the required elements of my system. Your team will walk away with recruitment and retention action plans that you will customize to your school. No matter how busy you are, you have the time for this 2-day investment that can transform the way you recruit and retain women (and men) in your STEM programs and classes.
Here's an overview of what your team is going to learn in my WomenTech Educators Online Bootcamp!
"What Your Team Will Learn in 2 Amazing Days"
Day 1: Recruit
- Learn how to choose the "right" target audience for your recruitment goals so that you can go after the low-hanging fruit and enroll more women in your classes
- Understand how to build a Women in STEM Leadership Team so that you don't have to recruit more female students all by yourself
- Discover what excites women about technology and learn how to find female role models so that your outreach is more effective
- Leverage online recruitment strategies so more female students know about your STEM programs and you can recruit 24/7
- Find out how to execute event-based recruiting that actually leads to increases in female enrollment
- MILESTONE: Create a recruitment action plan you will customize to your school that will provide you with a roadmap to increasing female students in your STEM classes
Day 2: Retain
- Find out how to close the experience gap and level the playing field for ALL students including those with less informal STEM experience, so they all are retained
- Uncover strategies to help your female students feel welcome in the classroom and prevent them from dropping out in the first few weeks
- Learn how to appeal to the large group of women and girls who just aren't excited by STEM in its present form so they are engaged and complete your classes
- Discover the teaching practices and learning methods that dramatically increase retention of male and
female students - MILESTONE: Create a retention action plan you will customize to your school that will provide you with a roadmap to retaining more female (and male!) students in your STEM classes
Your team will take away:
- An easy-to-implement recruitment plan to increase female enrollment to up to 25-50% in your STEM programs and classes
- A retention plan for your school to increase the completion rate of your female (and male) students, starting this semester
- The knowledge and confidence you need to put these plans into action right away
* Bonus: You'll also receive, as free bonus tools, my Women in Technology Outreach Kit and STEM Bibliography to
help you save time and money and be even more successful (see below!)
Plus—Don't Miss Your Opportunity to Ask Questions
from the "Hot Seat!"
My WomenTech Educators Online Bootcamp is not just a special opportunity to pack all of our training into just 2 days—without even leaving your desk! You'll also have a unique chance to get on the "Hot Seat" in front of other "recruits" and have your work on any of the elements of your recruitment and retention plans reviewed by me, Donna Milgram. Don't worry—I promise not to make you do push-ups if you give the wrong answer!
Top 5 Reasons to Attend This Event Now...
1. Receive my WomenTech Educators training in an immersive and convenient format.
In the past, I have only offered this 2-day event in person. Educators love my live trainings, but scheduling and capacity limitations have meant that some educators have not been able to have access to my valuable system. With my new Online Bootcamp, as many educators around the country can join in as would like to—and you can leave the luggage
at home!
2. Get your recruitment and retention strategies in shape before school starts.
If you are ready to see more female faces in your STEM classrooms, my WomenTech Educators Online Bootcamp is timed perfectly for you. Lay the groundwork before the fall semester starts by learning actionable recruitment and retention strategies, many of which can be implemented right away.
3. Take away valuable templates and strategies you can share with other educators.
My WomenTech Educators Training is designed to be actionable, because I want to see educators be able to create lasting change for female STEM students in their classes and programs. You'll leave the training equipped with recruitment and retention action plans, personal encouragement and welcoming conversation scripts, and other strategies that can benefit your entire department, in the coming academic year and beyond.
4. Maximize your learning while saving on travel.
While I love to welcome STEM educators to the Bay Area for my live trainings, travel can be a major issue when it comes to planning and departmental budgets. No longer. This is a training that truly only takes 2 days—not a conference that has you spending as much time at the airport as you will in the lecture hall.
5. Learn the strategies that will help you recruit and retain more women in STEM!
The strategies I'll be sharing in the WomenTech Educators Online Bootcamp have empowered educators across the country to measurably increase the number of women in their STEM classes. If you've ever wanted to take the opportunity to engage in one of our trainings, now is the time.
"Sounds great Donna! But what if I'm not ready?"
Don't worry—my WomenTech Educators Program is easy to follow and I will personally lead you through it over the course of the WomenTech Educators Online Bootcamp's 2 days! If you are a STEM educator dissatisfied with the number of female students in your classes and programs, that is all it takes to be "ready" for my Bootcamp—I'll be there to teach you everything else.
Over the past 21 years, since I've founded the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science, I've helped educators who feel like they've tried everything and educators who don't know where to begin. No matter where you stand, every classroom can benefit from the proven strategies for recruiting and retaining more women in STEM that I will be sharing in the WomenTech Educators Online Bootcamp.
"I'm a male educator. Is the Bootcamp right for me?"
Yes! My 2-day intensive online event is a great fit for anyone who is involved in teaching STEM, male or female, especially at the community college level! We've had many male educators come through our WomenTech Educators Training and achieve excellent results. In fact, the majority of STEM educators are male, and I have done this training in the past with 100% male attendees. My WomenTech Educators Online Bootcamp is open to all—the only thing we're focused on is laying the foundation for truly impactful change across your STEM programs.
"What if I'm too busy to attend?"
I know educators like you have busy schedules! That's why I've packed as much value as possible into these 2 days. I've even cut out travel time (and costs!) by making the WomenTech Educators Online Bootcamp entirely online.
I know it's easy to get stuck in a busy cycle. But if you don't do anything different, your results will stay the same. If you're dissatisfied with your enrollment numbers, this 2-day event is the perfect opportunity to learn my WomenTech Educators Training knowledgebase all at once and take the first step toward increasing recruitment and retention of female (and male!) students in your classes and programs.
"What will my team 'get' out of the WomenTech Educators
Online Bootcamp?"
The WomenTech Educators Online Bootcamp contains 8 hours of content on recruitment and 8 hours of content on retention. You'll receive my WomenTech Educators accompanying handouts, recruitment and retention plan templates, and the opportunity to have questions answered and participate through volunteering for the "Hot Seat." At the conclusion of my Bootcamp, you'll have the tools to put in place proven strategies that can help your STEM programs succeed, and help more female (and male) students along to fulfilling STEM careers.
Are you ready to...
- Adopt a program-wide "female-friendly" recruitment approach
- Communicate the benefits of STEM at each stage of the recruitment process
- Identify your target audience for recruitment and low-hanging fruit
- Make female students feel welcome in the classroom (and learn what not to do)
- Bolster the confidence of your STEM students to ensure success
- Help your female students be successful in the lab
- Teach the building block skills that help to close the experience gap
- Share with other faculty how to teach to female learning style
- Connect with female role models & create community
- Partner with faculty, administrators, student services, and others to work together and boost STEM retention
- Develop a leadership team and employ them effectively
Two FREE Gifts When You Enroll Your Team Now:
Women in Technology Outreach Kit ($150 value)
This Outreach Kit plus the included Online Website Strategy Guide will help you increase the number of women in your school's technology programs. Recruit more women to your STEM programs with these fill-in-the blank templates for proven outreach materials. You'll take the guesswork out of your outreach.
STEM Resources for Instructors to Help Women and Girls: Annotated Bibliography ($35 value)
We've made it easy for you to find online role model resources that will help women and girls see themselves in all career pathways. Also, find sample curriculums and websites that teach programming in a female-friendly way. Don't miss this; it will save you many hours of researching this yourself.
PLUS New Fast Action Bonus: FREE VIP Session With Me! Enormous Value!
Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to get your specific questions answered directly by me two weeks after the Bootcamp. After you’ve started to implement your recruitment and retention action plans, you’ll be able to come back and ask any questions that have come up!
Simply apply now with a team of 6 or more educators using the online application and then make a payment by credit card or check within three days after your application is accepted to reserve your VIP session.
Hurry! Limited Enrollment! Choose Your Package Level: The More Team Members You Bring, The More You Benefit!
All levels include virtual office hours with Donna, several Q&A sessions and the opportunity to receive feedback on portions of your customized STEM recruitment and retention plan!
BEST VALUE! Gold Registration: 7-10 Team Members ($4690)
Silver Registration: 3-6 Team Members ($3800)
Bronze Registration: Self-Study w/Up To 3 Team Members ($997): Does not include personalized plan feedback.
Enrollment Open NOW For A Limited Time Only!
The tuition for my WomenTech Educators Online Bootcamp is only $497—an investment that can transform the way you recruit women to STEM and increase the number of women in your STEM classes.
The program and our gifts provide value that can be applied to your STEM classes for semesters to come.
I want you to have the tools you need to tackle the problems facing female STEM students at your institution. Remember, each and every one of you is part of the Women and STEM solution.
Join me for my WomenTech Educators Online Bootcamp and let's achieve more STEM Success for Women!
I look forward to providing you with proven strategies and celebrating STEM Success for Women with you!
Warmly,
Donna Milgram
Executive Director, The National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science
P.S. - Without evidence-based strategies, it's difficult to achieve gender diversity at your educational institution. Learn how to recruit and retain more women in STEM at my WomenTech Educators Online Bootcamp!
If You're Tired of Creating Excellent STEM Classes & Programs That Only Attract A Few Female Students...Learn How You Can Gain up to 25-50% Female STEM Enrollment in Just One Year!
WomenTech EducatorsOnline TrainingTake the first step to increasing recruitment and retention of female students in your STEM classes and programs!Online Training Starts January 25, 2016! |
FREE VIP Team Consultation With Payment Before 12/7 Enrollment Open NOW For A Limited Time Only! |
Dear STEM Educator,
Are you frustrated because you have excellent STEM classes and programs but few, if any, female students?
If you're like me, you have a PASSION for ensuring that every woman and girl feels empowered to choose a career in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
But, the reality is, the percentage of female students choosing STEM in the United States is going down. And even when they choose STEM majors, one-third to a half transfer out.
Many educators who really, sincerely want to have more female students are held back by popular but ineffective gender equity outreach and retention methods that, simply put, don't work.
If you're like most of the educators I work with, you have
extraordinary STEM programs but you're struggling to recruit and retain more women in STEM....
![]() |
You're confused about how to attract female students to your STEM programs |
![]() |
You have limited time and want to ensure your recruitment efforts are effective and efficient |
![]() |
You finally recruited one or two female students... Only to have them drop out |
![]() |
Your male retention rate also needs improvement |
If this sounds familiar, I want to help you break through to finally enroll more women in STEM—AND retain them (while improving male retention rates, as well).
I've dedicated my entire career to helping educational institutions have actual increases in female enrollment and retention.

As the Principal Investigator of 5 National Science Foundation grants, I've worked intensively with schools—boots on the ground—to develop the strategies and system that help educators enroll up to 25-50% female students in STEM classes.
My NSF-funded CalWomenTech Project was highlighted by the National Science Foundation for demonstrating significant achievement and program effectiveness and chosen as 1 of 3 model projects by the American Association of University Women (AAUW).
After 30 years of service in the field, I've "cracked the code" and developed an 8 point system for recruitment and a 12 point system for retention that provides numerical results in about one year—not just the hope of eventual change 5-10 years down the road that nobody can measure.
I've developed Recruitment and Retention Plan templates based on my 20 point system that requires you to use the plan elements which have resulted in success for so many of our past WomenTech Educators Training participants. I've even created templated personal encouragement and welcoming conversation guides.
I know busy educators don't have time to figure this out all by themselves. That's why I developed rich supplementary online resources that range from examples of women in STEM recruitment videos, to a tested NSF-based spatial reasoning curricula that improves retention.
I love being able to make such a big impact on STEM classrooms around the country, and in turn on the lives of women and girls who have the opportunity to reach their full potential.
So in case you're not convinced that you really can improve recruitment and retention of your female students in your teaching lifetime, here are some of the results of past participants in our WomenTech Educators Training.
It's possible to nearly double the female students in your STEM classes.
Read about the transformation of the STEM classrooms by our past WomenTech Educators Training participants.

Pam Silvers, Chairperson of Computer Technologies at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, in Asheville, NC, credits the live WomenTech Educators Training she attended with changing her approach to female enrollment and helping her to nearly double the female students in her STEM program from 39 to 72.

"Participating in the IWITTS training refined my skills as an instructor and administrator to be an agent of change in this realm. Because Computer Networking and Information Technology was not on the radar of many women, the tools that were given to us by IWITTS for reaching out to students for our entry level class were very effective. And those changes have been institutionalized in my department. Thanks to our work with IWITTS, female enrollment in my department has risen from 19% to 33%."
~ Pierre Thiry, Principal Investigator, Mid-Pacific ICT Regional Center, City College of San Francisco,
San Francisco, CA

"Before [attending the WomenTech Educators training] I had a lot more success retaining women in my database class than in my introductory programming classes -- actually I wasn't retaining any women in my introductory programming classes. They were all dropping. That was a big win for me, that I had an increase in retention of females in my introductory programming courses."
~ Barbara DuFrain, Associate Professor, CS, Engineering and Advanced Technology, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX, increased female enrollment in her introductory programming courses by 62% and female and male completion by 45%.

"Completely made me re-evaluate the approach that we have been taking. I realized the many mistakes and plan to make changes that I learned from the training. Great information!"
~ Hector Yanez, Department Chair/CADD Manager of Computer Drafting and Design Technology, Texas State Technical College, Harlingen, TX increased female enrollment from 11% to 37% in his Computer Drafting & Design Technology Program.
Learn the best practices that can increase female enrollment to up to 25-50% and improve female and male completion by 45%.
The WomenTech Educators Online Training includes a successful system created from my 5 National Science Foundation (NSF) projects and 30 years of experience helping educators recruit and retain more women in STEM, and presented it in an easy to access format that packs in as much information as possible.
Over the course of the online training, your team will be immersed in my powerful WomenTech Educators Training program and learn all 20 of the required elements of my system. Your team will walk away with Recruitment and Retention Action Plans that you will customize to your school. No matter how busy you are, you have the time for this investment that can transform the way you recruit and retain women (and men) in your STEM programs and classes.
Here's an overview of what your team is going to learn in my WomenTech Educators Online Training!
"What Your Team Will Learn"
Part 1: Recruit
- Learn how to choose the "right" target audience for your recruitment goals so that you can go after the low-hanging fruit and enroll more women in your classes
- Understand how to build a Women in STEM Leadership Team so that you don't have to recruit more female students all by yourself
- Discover what excites women about technology and learn how to find female role models so that your outreach is more effective
- Leverage online recruitment strategies so more female students know about your STEM programs and you can recruit 24/7
- Find out how to execute event-based recruiting that actually leads to increases in female enrollment
- TAKEAWAY: Create a Recruitment Action Plan you will customize to your school that will provide you with a roadmap to increasing female students in your STEM classes
Part 2: Retain
- Find out how to close the experience gap and level the playing field for ALL students including those with less informal STEM experience, so they all are retained
- Uncover strategies to help your female students feel welcome in the classroom and prevent them from dropping out in the first few weeks
- Learn how to appeal to the large group of women and girls who just aren't excited by STEM in its present form so they are engaged and complete your classes
- Discover the teaching practices and learning methods that dramatically increase retention of male and
female students - TAKEAWAY: Create a Retention Action Plan you will customize to your school that will provide you with a roadmap to retaining more female (and male!) students in your STEM classes
Your team will develop:
- An easy-to-implement Recruitment Plan to increase female enrollment to up to 25-50% in your STEM programs and classes
- A Retention Plan for your school to increase the completion rate of your female (and male) students, starting this semester
- The knowledge and confidence you need to put these plans into action right away
* Bonus: You'll also receive, as free bonus tools, my Women in Technology Outreach Kit and STEM Bibliography to
help you save time and money and be even more successful (see below!)
"The Power of Teams"
Most Popular (Silver) - Work on a team of 3-6 colleagues connected to your targeted career pathway (e.g. Computer Networking or Engineering Technology). Collaborate on the development of your Recruitment and Retention Action Plans, and receive customized feedback from Donna and the IWITTS team. School teams develop and implement the strongest Women in STEM Recruitment and Retention Plans. This has been demonstrated across 5 NSF-funded projects in the more than 20 years IWITTS has been offering professional development for educators in STEM.
Biggest Group (Gold) Everything in Silver + Gold - Teams of 7-10 include additional stakeholders, such as Counselors and Advisors, Learning Center Staff, Curriculum Developers and Grant Writers.
Sign up for an information session with a STEM Strategy Specialist to discuss the best team members to help your school meet its goals for broadening participation.
Top 4 Reasons to Attend This Event Now...
1. Receive my WomenTech Educators training in a convenient, online format.
Educators love my live trainings, but scheduling and capacity limitations have meant that some educators have not been able to have access to my valuable system. With my new Online Training, educators around the country can join in—and you can leave the luggage at home!
2. Take away valuable templates and strategies you can share with other educators.
My WomenTech Educators Training is designed to be actionable, because I want to see educators be able to create lasting change for female STEM students in their classes and programs. You'll leave the training equipped with Recruitment and Retention Action Plans, personal encouragement and welcoming conversation scripts, and other strategies that can benefit your entire department, in the coming academic year and beyond.
3. Maximize your learning while saving on travel.
While I love to welcome STEM educators to the Bay Area for my live trainings, travel can be a major issue when it comes to planning and departmental budgets. No longer. This is an online training you do on your schedule—not a conference that has you spending as much time at the airport as you will in the lecture hall.
4. Learn the strategies that will help you recruit and retain more women in STEM!
The strategies I'll be sharing in the WomenTech Educators Online Training have empowered educators across the country to measurably increase the number of women in their STEM classes. If you've ever wanted to take the opportunity to engage in one of our trainings, now is the time.
"Sounds great Donna! But what if I'm not ready?"
Don't worry—my WomenTech Educators Program is easy to follow and I will personally lead you through it over the course of the WomenTech Educators Online Training! If you are a STEM educator dissatisfied with the number of female students in your classes and programs, that is all it takes to be "ready" for my Online Training—I'll be there to teach you everything else.
Over the past 21 years, since I founded the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science, I've helped educators who feel like they've tried everything and educators who don't know where to begin. No matter where you stand, every classroom can benefit from the proven strategies for recruiting and retaining more women in STEM that I will be sharing in the WomenTech Educators Online Training.
"I'm a male educator. Is the Online Training right for me?"
Yes! My online training is a great fit for anyone who is involved in teaching STEM, male or female, especially at the community college level! We've had many male educators come through our WomenTech Educators Training and achieve excellent results. In fact, the majority of STEM educators are male, and I have done this training in the past with 100% male attendees. My WomenTech Educators Online Training is open to all—the only thing we're focused on is laying the foundation for truly impactful change across your STEM programs.
"What if I'm too busy to attend?"
I know educators like you have busy schedules! That’s why I’ve packed as much value as possible into these 12 weeks. I’ve even cut out travel time (and costs!) by making the WomenTech Educators Training entirely online.
I know it’s easy to get stuck in a busy cycle. But if you don’t do anything different, your results will stay the same. If you’re dissatisfied with your enrollment numbers, this online training is the perfect opportunity to have the kinds of results in your own program that you’ve been hearing about. Plus, the training is asynchronous so you and your team can work on your own schedule. Take the first step toward increasing recruitment and retention of female (and male!) students in your classes and programs.
"What will my team 'get' out of the
WomenTech Educators Online Training?"
The WomenTech Educators Online Training contains 8 hours of content on recruitment and 8 hours of content on retention. You'll receive my WomenTech Educators accompanying handouts, Recruitment and Retention Plan templates, personalized feedback, with the opportunity to get questions answered by me personally in live question and answer calls to help you develop a plan to meet your goals and have actual increases. At the conclusion of my Online Training, you'll have the tools to put in place proven strategies that can help your STEM programs succeed, and help more female (and male) students along to fulfilling STEM careers.
Are you ready to...
- Adopt a program-wide "female-friendly" recruitment approach
- Communicate the benefits of STEM at each stage of the recruitment process
- Identify your target audience for recruitment and low-hanging fruit
- Make female students feel welcome in the classroom (and learn what not to do)
- Bolster the confidence of your STEM students to ensure success
- Help your female students be successful in the lab
- Teach the building block skills that help to close the experience gap
- Share with other faculty how to teach to female learning style
- Connect with female role models & create community
- Partner with faculty, administrators, student services, and others to work together and boost STEM retention
- Develop a leadership team and employ them effectively
Schedule/Time Required:
Time period: 1-week orientation starts January 25, 2016 then 5 weeks on recruitment (Feb 1-Feb 28), a 1-week break in the middle, and 5 weeks on retention (Mar 14-Apr 10).
Time required: About 2-3 hours per week. This can include the time to start implementing your team’s plan and seeing results, even while the training is happening!
Training format: Presentations, handouts & exercises online, available to watch and complete at your convenience each week.
Live question and answer training call in Weeks 6 and 12.
Exclusive online community forum to connect with other training participants.
Archives: All calls and sessions recorded and emailed out the next day.
Continuing Education Credit:
Fresno Pacific University is now offering one unit of continuing education credit to online training participants! Note: You can sign up for the continuing education credit starting four weeks in advance of training.
Two FREE Gifts When You Enroll Your Team Now:
Women in Technology Outreach Kit ($150 value)
This Outreach Kit plus the included Online Website Strategy Guide will help you increase the number of women in your school's technology programs. Recruit more women to your STEM programs with these fill-in-the blank templates for proven outreach materials. You'll take the guesswork out of your outreach.
STEM Resources for Instructors to Help Women and Girls: Annotated Bibliography ($35 value)
We've made it easy for you to find online role model resources that will help women and girls see themselves in all career pathways. Also, find sample curriculums and websites that teach programming in a female-friendly way. Don't miss this; it will save you many hours of researching this yourself.
PLUS New Fast Action Bonus: FREE VIP Consultation With Me! Enormous Value!
Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to get your specific questions answered directly by me after the Online Training. After you’ve started to implement your Recruitment and Retention Action Plans, you’ll be able to come back and ask any questions that have come up and get additional customized feedback on the Recruitment and Retention Action Plans you develop during the training!
Simply apply now with a team of 3 or more educators using the online application and then make a payment by credit card or check by December 7, 2015 to reserve the VIP Consultation for you and your entire team.
Hurry! Limited Enrollment! Choose Your Package Level:
Silver Registration ($2995)
- Online training for a team of 3-6 people
- Customized feedback on your Recruitment and Retention Plans from Donna and her talented team
- Customized feedback on recruitment: personal encouragement conversation and retention: welcoming conversation
- Two live Question and Answer calls with Donna as part of your support system
- Bonuses: Women in Technology Outreach Kit and STEM Resources Bibliography for up to six people ($1110 value)
Gold Registration ($4690)
- Online training for a team of 7-10 people
- Customized feedback on your Recruitment and Retention Plans from Donna and her talented team
- Customized feedback on recruitment: personal encouragement conversation and retention: welcoming conversation
- Two live Question and Answer calls with Donna as part of your support system
- Bonuses: Women in Technology Outreach Kit and STEM Resources Bibliography for up to ten people ($1850 value)
Enrollment Open NOW For A Limited Time Only!
The WomenTech Educators Online Training is an investment that can transform the way you recruit women to STEM and increase the number of women in your STEM classes.
The program and our gifts provide value that can be applied to your STEM classes for semesters to come.
I want you to have the tools you need to tackle the problems facing female STEM students at your institution. Remember, each and every one of you is part of the Women and STEM solution.
Join me for my WomenTech Educators Online Training and let's achieve more STEM Success for Women!
I look forward to providing you with proven strategies and celebrating STEM Success for Women with you!
Warmly,
Donna Milgram
Executive Director, The National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science
P.S. - Without evidence-based strategies, it's difficult to achieve gender diversity at your educational institution. Learn how to recruit and retain more women in STEM during my WomenTech Educators Online Training!
If You're Tired of Creating Excellent STEM Classes & Programs That Only Attract A Few Female Students...Learn How You Can Gain up to 25-50% Female STEM Enrollment in Just One Year!
WomenTech EducatorsOnline TrainingTake the first step to increasing recruitment and retention of female students in your STEM classes and programs!Online Training Starts January 25, 2016! |
Enrollment Open NOW For A Limited Time Only! |
Dear STEM Educator,
Are you frustrated because you have excellent STEM classes and programs but few, if any, female students?
If you're like me, you have a PASSION for ensuring that every woman and girl feels empowered to choose a career in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
But, the reality is, the percentage of female students choosing STEM in the United States is going down. And even when they choose STEM majors, one-third to a half transfer out.
Many educators who really, sincerely want to have more female students are held back by popular but ineffective gender equity outreach and retention methods that, simply put, don't work.
If you're like most of the educators I work with, you have
extraordinary STEM programs but you're struggling to recruit and retain more women in STEM....
![]() |
You're confused about how to attract female students to your STEM programs |
![]() |
You have limited time and want to ensure your recruitment efforts are effective and efficient |
![]() |
You finally recruited one or two female students... Only to have them drop out |
![]() |
Your male retention rate also needs improvement |
If this sounds familiar, I want to help you break through to finally enroll more women in STEM—AND retain them (while improving male retention rates, as well).
I've dedicated my entire career to helping educational institutions have actual increases in female enrollment and retention.

As the Principal Investigator of 5 National Science Foundation grants, I've worked intensively with schools—boots on the ground—to develop the strategies and system that help educators enroll up to 25-50% female students in STEM classes.
My NSF-funded CalWomenTech Project was highlighted by the National Science Foundation for demonstrating significant achievement and program effectiveness and chosen as 1 of 3 model projects by the American Association of University Women (AAUW).
After 30 years of service in the field, I've "cracked the code" and developed an 8 point system for recruitment and a 12 point system for retention that provides numerical results in about one year—not just the hope of eventual change 5-10 years down the road that nobody can measure.
I've developed Recruitment and Retention Plan templates based on my 20 point system that requires you to use the plan elements which have resulted in success for so many of our past WomenTech Educators Training participants. I've even created templated personal encouragement and welcoming conversation guides.
I know busy educators don't have time to figure this out all by themselves. That's why I developed rich supplementary online resources that range from examples of women in STEM recruitment videos, to a tested NSF-based spatial reasoning curricula that improves retention.
I love being able to make such a big impact on STEM classrooms around the country, and in turn on the lives of women and girls who have the opportunity to reach their full potential.
So in case you're not convinced that you really can improve recruitment and retention of your female students in your teaching lifetime, here are some of the results of past participants in our WomenTech Educators Training.
It's possible to nearly double the female students in your STEM classes.
Read about the transformation of the STEM classrooms by our past WomenTech Educators Training participants.

Pam Silvers, Chairperson of Computer Technologies at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, in Asheville, NC, credits the live WomenTech Educators Training she attended with changing her approach to female enrollment and helping her to nearly double the female students in her STEM program from 39 to 72.

"Participating in the IWITTS training refined my skills as an instructor and administrator to be an agent of change in this realm. Because Computer Networking and Information Technology was not on the radar of many women, the tools that were given to us by IWITTS for reaching out to students for our entry level class were very effective. And those changes have been institutionalized in my department. Thanks to our work with IWITTS, female enrollment in my department has risen from 19% to 33%."
~ Pierre Thiry, Principal Investigator, Mid-Pacific ICT Regional Center, City College of San Francisco,
San Francisco, CA

"Before [attending the WomenTech Educators training] I had a lot more success retaining women in my database class than in my introductory programming classes -- actually I wasn't retaining any women in my introductory programming classes. They were all dropping. That was a big win for me, that I had an increase in retention of females in my introductory programming courses."
~ Barbara DuFrain, Associate Professor, CS, Engineering and Advanced Technology, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX, increased female enrollment in her introductory programming courses by 62% and female and male completion by 45%.

"Completely made me re-evaluate the approach that we have been taking. I realized the many mistakes and plan to make changes that I learned from the training. Great information!"
~ Hector Yanez, Department Chair/CADD Manager of Computer Drafting and Design Technology, Texas State Technical College, Harlingen, TX increased female enrollment from 11% to 37% in his Computer Drafting & Design Technology Program.
Learn the best practices that can increase female enrollment to up to 25-50% and improve female and male completion by 45%.
The WomenTech Educators Online Training includes a successful system created from my 5 National Science Foundation (NSF) projects and 30 years of experience helping educators recruit and retain more women in STEM, and presented it in an easy to access format that packs in as much information as possible.
Over the course of the online training, your team will be immersed in my powerful WomenTech Educators Training program and learn all 20 of the required elements of my system. Your team will walk away with Recruitment and Retention Action Plans that you will customize to your school. No matter how busy you are, you have the time for this investment that can transform the way you recruit and retain women (and men) in your STEM programs and classes.
Here's an overview of what your team is going to learn in my WomenTech Educators Online Training!
"What Your Team Will Learn"
Part 1: Recruit
- Learn how to choose the "right" target audience for your recruitment goals so that you can go after the low-hanging fruit and enroll more women in your classes
- Understand how to build a Women in STEM Leadership Team so that you don't have to recruit more female students all by yourself
- Discover what excites women about technology and learn how to find female role models so that your outreach is more effective
- Leverage online recruitment strategies so more female students know about your STEM programs and you can recruit 24/7
- Find out how to execute event-based recruiting that actually leads to increases in female enrollment
- TAKEAWAY: Create a Recruitment Action Plan you will customize to your school that will provide you with a roadmap to increasing female students in your STEM classes
Part 2: Retain
- Find out how to close the experience gap and level the playing field for ALL students including those with less informal STEM experience, so they all are retained
- Uncover strategies to help your female students feel welcome in the classroom and prevent them from dropping out in the first few weeks
- Learn how to appeal to the large group of women and girls who just aren't excited by STEM in its present form so they are engaged and complete your classes
- Discover the teaching practices and learning methods that dramatically increase retention of male and
female students - TAKEAWAY: Create a Retention Action Plan you will customize to your school that will provide you with a roadmap to retaining more female (and male!) students in your STEM classes
Your team will develop:
- An easy-to-implement Recruitment Plan to increase female enrollment to up to 25-50% in your STEM programs and classes
- A Retention Plan for your school to increase the completion rate of your female (and male) students, starting this semester
- The knowledge and confidence you need to put these plans into action right away
* Bonus: You'll also receive, as free bonus tools, my Women in Technology Outreach Kit and STEM Bibliography to
help you save time and money and be even more successful (see below!)
"The Power of Teams"
Most Popular (Silver) - Work on a team of 3-6 colleagues connected to your targeted career pathway (e.g. Computer Networking or Engineering Technology). Collaborate on the development of your Recruitment and Retention Action Plans, and receive customized feedback from Donna and the IWITTS team. School teams develop and implement the strongest Women in STEM Recruitment and Retention Plans. This has been demonstrated across 5 NSF-funded projects in the more than 20 years IWITTS has been offering professional development for educators in STEM.
Biggest Group (Gold) Everything in Silver + Gold - Teams of 7-10 include additional stakeholders, such as Counselors and Advisors, Learning Center Staff, Curriculum Developers and Grant Writers.
Sign up for an information session with a Women in STEM Strategy Specialist to discuss the best team members to help your school meet its goals for broadening participation.
Top 4 Reasons to Attend This Event Now...
1. Receive my WomenTech Educators training in a convenient, online format.
Educators love my live trainings, but scheduling and capacity limitations have meant that some educators have not been able to have access to my valuable system. With my new Online Training, educators around the country can join in—and you can leave the luggage at home!
2. Take away valuable templates and strategies you can share with other educators.
My WomenTech Educators Training is designed to be actionable, because I want to see educators be able to create lasting change for female STEM students in their classes and programs. You'll leave the training equipped with Recruitment and Retention Action Plans, personal encouragement and welcoming conversation scripts, and other strategies that can benefit your entire department, in the coming academic year and beyond.
3. Maximize your learning while saving on travel.
While I love to welcome STEM educators to the Bay Area for my live trainings, travel can be a major issue when it comes to planning and departmental budgets. No longer. This is an online training you do on your schedule—not a conference that has you spending as much time at the airport as you will in the lecture hall.
4. Learn the strategies that will help you recruit and retain more women in STEM!
The strategies I'll be sharing in the WomenTech Educators Online Training have empowered educators across the country to measurably increase the number of women in their STEM classes. If you've ever wanted to take the opportunity to engage in one of our trainings, now is the time.
"Sounds great Donna! But what if I'm not ready?"
Don't worry—my WomenTech Educators Program is easy to follow and I will personally lead you through it over the course of the WomenTech Educators Online Training! If you are a STEM educator dissatisfied with the number of female students in your classes and programs, that is all it takes to be "ready" for my Online Training—I'll be there to teach you everything else.
Over the past 21 years, since I founded the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science, I've helped educators who feel like they've tried everything and educators who don't know where to begin. No matter where you stand, every classroom can benefit from the proven strategies for recruiting and retaining more women in STEM that I will be sharing in the WomenTech Educators Online Training.
"I'm a male educator. Is the Online Training right for me?"
Yes! My online training is a great fit for anyone who is involved in teaching STEM, male or female, especially at the community college level! We've had many male educators come through our WomenTech Educators Training and achieve excellent results. In fact, the majority of STEM educators are male, and I have done this training in the past with 100% male attendees. My WomenTech Educators Online Training is open to all—the only thing we're focused on is laying the foundation for truly impactful change across your STEM programs.
"What if I'm too busy to attend?"
I know educators like you have busy schedules! That’s why I’ve packed as much value as possible into these 12 weeks. I’ve even cut out travel time (and costs!) by making the WomenTech Educators Training entirely online.
I know it’s easy to get stuck in a busy cycle. But if you don’t do anything different, your results will stay the same. If you’re dissatisfied with your enrollment numbers, this online training is the perfect opportunity to have the kinds of results in your own program that you’ve been hearing about. Plus, the training is asynchronous so you and your team can work on your own schedule. Take the first step toward increasing recruitment and retention of female (and male!) students in your classes and programs.
"What will my team 'get' out of the
WomenTech Educators Online Training?"
The WomenTech Educators Online Training contains 8 hours of content on recruitment and 8 hours of content on retention. You'll receive my WomenTech Educators accompanying handouts, Recruitment and Retention Plan templates, personalized feedback, with the opportunity to get questions answered by me personally in live question and answer calls to help you develop a plan to meet your goals and have actual increases. At the conclusion of my Online Training, you'll have the tools to put in place proven strategies that can help your STEM programs succeed, and help more female (and male) students along to fulfilling STEM careers.
Are you ready to...
- Adopt a program-wide "female-friendly" recruitment approach
- Communicate the benefits of STEM at each stage of the recruitment process
- Identify your target audience for recruitment and low-hanging fruit
- Make female students feel welcome in the classroom (and learn what not to do)
- Bolster the confidence of your STEM students to ensure success
- Help your female students be successful in the lab
- Teach the building block skills that help to close the experience gap
- Share with other faculty how to teach to female learning style
- Connect with female role models & create community
- Partner with faculty, administrators, student services, and others to work together and boost STEM retention
- Develop a leadership team and employ them effectively
Schedule/Time Required:
Time period: 1-week orientation starts January 25, 2016 then 5 weeks on recruitment (Feb 1-Feb 28), a 1-week break in the middle, and 5 weeks on retention (Mar 14-Apr 10).
Time required: About 2-3 hours per week. This can include the time to start implementing your team’s plan and seeing results, even while the training is happening!
Training format: Presentations, handouts & exercises online, available to watch and complete at your convenience each week.
Live question and answer training call in Weeks 6 and 12.
Exclusive online community forum to connect with other training participants.
Archives: All calls and sessions recorded and emailed out the next day.
Continuing Education Credit:
Fresno Pacific University is now offering one unit of continuing education credit to online training participants! Note: You can sign up for the continuing education credit starting four weeks in advance of training.
Two FREE Gifts When You Enroll Your Team Now:
Women in Technology Outreach Kit ($150 value)
This Outreach Kit plus the included Online Website Strategy Guide will help you increase the number of women in your school's technology programs. Recruit more women to your STEM programs with these fill-in-the blank templates for proven outreach materials. You'll take the guesswork out of your outreach.
STEM Resources for Instructors to Help Women and Girls: Annotated Bibliography ($35 value)
We've made it easy for you to find online role model resources that will help women and girls see themselves in all career pathways. Also, find sample curriculums and websites that teach programming in a female-friendly way. Don't miss this; it will save you many hours of researching this yourself.
Hurry! Limited Enrollment! Choose Your Package Level:
Silver Registration ($2995)
- Online training for a team of 3-6 people
- Customized feedback on your Recruitment and Retention Plans from Donna and her talented team
- Customized feedback on recruitment: personal encouragement conversation and retention: welcoming conversation
- Two live Question and Answer calls with Donna as part of your support system
- Bonuses: Women in Technology Outreach Kit and STEM Resources Bibliography for up to six people ($1110 value)
Gold Registration ($4690)
- Online training for a team of 7-10 people
- Customized feedback on your Recruitment and Retention Plans from Donna and her talented team
- Customized feedback on recruitment: personal encouragement conversation and retention: welcoming conversation
- Two live Question and Answer calls with Donna as part of your support system
- Bonuses: Women in Technology Outreach Kit and STEM Resources Bibliography for up to ten people ($1850 value)
Enrollment Open NOW For A Limited Time Only!
The WomenTech Educators Online Training is an investment that can transform the way you recruit women to STEM and increase the number of women in your STEM classes.
The program and our gifts provide value that can be applied to your STEM classes for semesters to come.
I want you to have the tools you need to tackle the problems facing female STEM students at your institution. Remember, each and every one of you is part of the Women and STEM solution.
Join me for my WomenTech Educators Online Training and let's achieve more STEM Success for Women!
I look forward to providing you with proven strategies and celebrating STEM Success for Women with you!
Warmly,
Donna Milgram
Executive Director, The National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science
P.S. Sign up for an information session with a Women in STEM Strategy Specialist to discuss the best team members to help your school meet its goals for broadening participation.
Finally, Outreach Materials for Women and Girls in STEM to Show "You Can Do It!"
Create a positive welcoming school environment!
The key to increasing the number of women in STEM is female role models on the job. Women and girls don’t think of themselves in careers as engineers or auto technicians or computer network administrators because the percentage of women is still small.
Female role models help get these careers on the radar of women and girls, because they’re able to see someone who looks like them on the job. And they think to themselves, "That might be interesting! If she can do it, I can do it too."
If we ever want to increase our percentages beyond 8, 10 or 15 percent women in STEM, then we do need to have female role models and do outreach so that women and girls will picture themselves in these careers.
We have created the ultimate Toolkit to get more women in STEM, so every school in the country can have posters, banners, brochures, class presentations, websites and curricula featuring female role models next week if they order today! The need to create a welcoming positive environment for Women in STEM starts in your school.
Bonus: Because I want you to also have the recruitment strategies that have helped us empower schools to increase female enrollment in STEM (and retention!) you’ll receive as a free *bonus* our STEM Success for Women Master Class with 12, 1-hour audio interviews and transcripts from educators who have actually recruited and retained female students in STEM sharing the *recipe* for how they achieved this, step-by-step. We sell this interview series for $147 per user license, but it is yours free when you purchase the Toolkit before May 31.
Think what your school(s) can accomplish with ready-made female role model banners, customizable posters, outreach material templates, hard-to-find Women in STEM Classroom Resources, and proven recruitment and retention strategies from 11 top experts and practitioners on engaging female students in STEM in the STEM Success for Women Master Class.
We’ve created packages and licenses at the school, district and state-level and to introduce our brand new STEM Success Classroom Toolkit we are offering deep discounts through May 31 only for our Deal of the Month. Don’t miss out, finally a women-in-STEM solution that is high-quality, affordable and easy to implement right away!
Find out which size Toolkit is best for your institution
What's Included in the Toolkit:

These banners will help make your career events more appealing to female students. Plus, hang the banners year-round in your school's classrooms, hallways and around campus to send the message that women can succeed in these career areas. Each banner is 6 feet wide by 2 feet high and includes 3 grommets on top and bottom for easy hanging.

Hanging posters like these sends an important message about who you are as a school. It says that you welcome female students, and support women in STEM career pathways.
See all six posters in the set:
Customize the posters for your programs to attract even more students!
Add your school's program contact information and logo to each poster. Add your contact details, information about your program, and your school's logo to each poster. |
We've made it easy for educators to find online role model resources that will help women and girls see themselves in all career pathways. Also, this downloadable guide includes sample curriculums and websites that teach STEM in a female-friendly way. Don't miss this; it will save STEM educators many hours of researching on their own.
Sample Resource: Dot Divas are young women that believe in the potential of computing to make a better world. The Dot Diva website offers female role model profiles, examples of how computing can be used in many careers, and a webisode video featuring a young female role model. Parents and educators can find advice for talking to young women about computing, messages and images that work to spark their interest, downloadable recruitment materials (a Dot Diva poster, brochure, and flyer), and female role model videos on YouTube.

"For a long time, we heard from educators, 'Well, we can't find any girls who WANT to be welders' - but now, there's an increased perception that supporting female students in male-dominated careers is a much bigger deal, and there are resources available that can give all students a better ability to explore and pursue their interests. IWITTS materials like the STEM bibliography and Outreach Kit are a huge part of the resources we can offer to districts to help them serve their students. It's not just about Perkins compliance anymore."
~ Don Levine, CTE Education Specialist, Alaska Department of Education and Early Development
It's challenging to develop outreach materials that really work to recruit women to STEM! To help schools we have developed this easy-to-use kit with examples and templates for Women in STEM program brochure, program flyer, event flyer, recruitment PowerPoint presentation, and school website section that all include female role models. These materials were tested with 8 schools that were successful in recruiting more female students to STEM.
The female role model questionnaire alone is worth its weight in gold with the key questions and follow up questions to ask those hard-to-find female role models and how to elicit an inspirational quote from a women in STEM. Based on hundreds of interviews with STEM stars, you won’t want to miss this.

Empower educators in your entire school, region or state to recruit and retain more female students in STEM. The Master Class includes downloadable transcripts and audio of 12 sessions with proven, real-world strategies and case studies that give the nuts and bolts of how schools actually move the needle for women in STEM. We sell this interview series for $147 per user license, but it is yours free when you purchase the Toolkit before May 31.
These are on-demand audio classes that you can listen to at your convenience, with transcripts, from 11 top experts and practitioners on engaging women in STEM.
The Master Class is an easy, new way to help your school, region or state learn how to move the needle on Women in STEM...from experts and practitioners who have actually done it!
Learn from 11 of the top experts and practitioners on engaging women in STEM education including... |
![]() Chandra Brown Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce |
![]() Lily Gossage Director, Maximizing Engineering Potential (MEP) Center for Gender, Diversity & Student Excellence, |
![]() Dr. Mary R. Anderson- Director, Academic Success |
![]() Donna Milgram Executive Director, Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS) |
Which Size Toolkit Is Right For Your Needs?
Every school, district, region, consortia and state is different. That’s why we’ve created three distinct packages so you can choose the one that’s the best fit for your needs and budget.
School-Level Toolkit | District-Level Toolkit | State-Level Toolkit | |
Who is this toolkit best for? |
Schools | Districts, regional consortia | States or national-level projects or consortia |
Role Model Banners (Choose among 7) |
10 banners $1,000 value |
50 banners $5,000 value |
200 banners $20,000 value |
Unlimited Potential |
10 poster sets 60 posters in total! |
50 poster sets 300 posters in total! |
200 poster sets 1,200 posters in total! |
Women in STEM Classroom Resources |
10 users $350 value |
50 users $1,750 value |
200 users $7,000 value |
Women in Technology Outreach Kit |
10 users |
50 users |
200 users |
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10 users |
50 users |
200 users |
(Order by May 31) |
-10% (Save $427!) |
-25% (Save $5,087!) |
-40% (Save $31,758!) |
Your total: Includes shipping*! |
Normally: $4,270 Now: $3,843 ![]() Print order form |
Normally: $20,349 Now: $15,262 ![]() Print order form |
Normally: $79,394 Now: $47,636 ![]() Print order form |
If you're ordering from the state of CA, please contact us regarding sales tax on posters and banners.
Need more help?
If you’re not sure exactly which package is right for you, or need more details or a custom option, our Women and STEM Strategy Specialists are here to help.
*Included shipping is for one location per order. Additional shipping locations may incur added shipping charges. Contact Us for details.