High
Aspirations is a Penn State outreach program
that links grade school and university
professors and researchers. High Aspirations
has been designed to help students achieve
their full academic success, while helping
teachers create a new curriculum that
will benefit all students.
You
will find information on future careers,
links to fun classroom activities, possible
job opportunities, and different ways
to teach grades K-12 at this site. Some
of the topics covers include:
How society, culture, peers, and the
media shape gender roles
How
gender roles affect individual career
choices
Why
girls start to lose interest in some
subjects
Why
fewer women choose engineering or technology
fields
Why
this issue is important to all teachers
- K-12
How
the Internet can be used to get in touch
with professionals who can act as role
models and guide students along new
paths
For
more information about High Aspirations,
please e-mail Dawn
Blasko or call (814) 898-6081.
You
may also want to visit Math
Options, another outreach program
of Penn State Erie for adolescent girls.
High
Aspirations is a Penn State outreach program
that links grade school and university
professors and researchers. High Aspirations
has been designed to help students achieve
their full academic success, while helping
teachers create a new curriculum that
will benefit all students.
You
will find information on future careers,
links to fun classroom activities, possible
job opportunities, and different ways
to teach grades K-12 at this site. Some
of the topics covers include: 
