STEMinista Program At Michigan Science Center Friday To Be Streamed By DPTV

DETROIT – The Michigan Science Center this year developed an innovative program to introduce middle school girls to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. On Friday, Detroit Public Television will stream live a two-hour program featuring community and business leaders discussing creating spaces for women and girls in STEM.

The program will outline the challenges, successes and progressive strategies in gender diversification with the STEM workforce. Speakers include:

Major Gen. Gwendolyn Bingham, U.S. Army and Commander of the TACOM Life Cycle Management Command in Warren, who will deliver the keynote address. Gen. Bingham is the first women to lead TACOM and its 19,000 employees worldwide. To read an earlier story about her, click on https://dev.mitechnews.com/news/2644/

Jill Ford, head of the City of Detroit’s innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives.

Diane Antiphon, vice president of Human Resource Operations at DTE Energy.

Susan Smith, chief science officer at General Motors Corp.

Tonya Matthews, Ph.D, CEO of the Michigan Science Center

Linda Blair, ITC Michigan President

Live streaming of the invitation-only event will be provided by DPTV on www.dptv.org

By Mike Brennan|2016-03-02T20:56:33-05:00March 2nd, 2016|News, Podcasts|

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Founder of Michigan News Network, and serves as CEO, as well as Editor & Publisher of MITECHNEWS.COM. Brennan has worked since 1980 as a technology writer at newspapers in New York, NY, San Jose, CA., Seattle, WA., Memphis, TN., Detroit, MI., and London, England. He co-founded and served as managing editor of Pacific Rim News Service (SEATTLE), which developed a network of more than 100 freelance journalists in 17 Asia-Pacific countries.