Greetings NGCP National Champions Board members, We hope your 2019 is off to a wonderful start! We are excited for another year of fantastic work alongside you, continuing to move the needle on gender equity in STEM. This email is meant to capture your availability for our first meeting of 2019, as well as to provide you a snapshot of relevant updates. 2019 Quarter One Meeting We hope that you can join us for our first quarterly meeting of 2019. There is much to update you on regarding NGCP, and we will be inviting you to share any organizational news or collaboration ideas you have as well. Please complete this Doodle Poll<https://doodle.com/poll/u3npmdnzqycgztxb> to help us determine the online meeting time. National Mentoring Month Throughout January, the NGCP celebrated National Mentoring Month<http://ngcproject.org/2019-national-mentoring-month-ngcp-schedule-of-activities>. From celebrating individual FabFems<http://www.fabfems.org/> on Facebook and Twitter using #NGCPMentors2019, to hosting Rosa Sheng, architect and founder of Equity by Design<http://eqxdesign.com/>, and our NGCP Girls Advisory Board member, Helen P. on our national webinar, “Strategies for Mentoring Girls in STEM,” we have had an action-packed month. We invite you to help us continue to elevate the importance of role model and mentoring by sharing the social media posts below. Twitter: The @NGCProject is committed to supporting organizations that encourage girls to pursue STEM careers. An important part of this work is #rolemodeling and #mentoring. Support this effort by retweeting a #NGCPMentors2019 tweet that speaks to you, and check out @FabFems! Facebook: Did you know that January was National Mentoring Month? Help keep the momentum and positive message #rolemodeling and #mentoring going by sharing information from the National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) by following and sharing #NGCPMentors2019. The @NGCProject is committed to supporting organizations that encourage girls to pursue STEM careers. In fact, the NGCP manages the national database of women in STEM role models and mentors, @FabFems. If you know of women in STEM looking to make an impact, or a program looking to connect with women in STEM, encourage them to visit www.fabfems.org<http://www.fabfems.org>. LinkedIn: January was National Mentoring Month. The National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP), an organization committed to supporting organizations that encourage girls to pursue STEM careers, manages the national database of women in STEM role models and mentors, FabFems. I encourage you share www.fabfems.org<http://www.fabfems.org> both with women working in STEM and with youth-serving STEM programs looking to connect with #STEM role models and mentors. Welcome to our newest National Champions Board members Recently, we have had several wonderful individuals join this esteemed group. Please join us in welcoming Stephanie Rodriguez<http://ngcproject.org/about/cb/stephanie-rodriguez> from AnitaB.org, Cynthia Simpson<http://ngcproject.org/about/cb/cynthia-simpson> from the Association for Women in Science (AWIS), and Mary Anne Jeffers<http://ngcproject.org/about/cb/mary-anne-jeffers> from Accenture Federal Services. Paramount Pictures Animated Feature Film WONDERPARK The NGCP is pleased to announce a partnership with Paramount Pictures around its newest animated feature film, WONDERPARK<https://www.paramount.com/movies/wonder-park>. Highlighting collaboration and growth mindset, WONDERPARK celebrates the creativity and engineering prowess of the main character June, a young girl who takes us on a journey through her imagination as she and her friends try save the theme park of her dreams. We hope that you will join us in building awareness about this film and the NGCP activities associated with it. We will be sending more communication about this, so stay tuned! Partnerships for National Scaling We are continuing to work with partners on scaling high quality curriculum across the NGCP National Network. We are currently working with The Franklin Institute on Leap into Science. In 2018, leadership teams from Arizona, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, and West Virginia trained over 400 educators on the Leap into Science: Balance Curriculum. These states will continue to host Leap into Science training opportunities throughout 2019 and 2020. This year we are welcoming Cohort 2 from: Indiana, Kansas/Missouri, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Wyoming. These states will each be represented by a state leadership team that will be recruiting and training educators in their respective states. These twelve states will be hosting workshops on the Wind/Air curriculum in 2019-2020. To learn more about Leap into Science, visit the Leap into Science website<http://leap.fi.edu/> or contact Casi Herrera<mailto:cherrera@ngcproject.org>. We are also working with the University of Chicago on the CryptoClub project. Hubsites in California, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Ontario (CA), Oregon, Washington, and West Virginia. Each state is recruiting and training educators to participate in this fun, high-quality mathematics and cryptography curriculum. To learn more about CryptoClub, visit the CryptoClub website<https://cryptoclubproject.uchicago.edu/> or contact Casi Herrera<mailto:cherrera@ngcproject.org>. Thanks for everything you are doing to support girl in STEM! We look forward to speaking with you soon. Karen Karen Peterson, Founder & Chief Executive Officer The National Girls Collaborative and The Connectory @ngcproject @kpeterson Pronouns: she, her, hers