I hope you have had a good summer! Here is information about upcoming NGCP activities. September Collaborative Community Meeting: We are looking forward to reconnecting with you on Wednesday, September 11 at 11:00am Pacific, 12:00pm Mountain, 1:00pm Central, and 2:00pm Eastern. We will learn about the results from the STEM Career Pathways survey conducted by the Student Research Foundation<https://www.studentresearchfoundation.org/> and hear updates from our Collaborative Leadership team. We will also be announcing a new partnership and mini-grant opportunity with Mercedes and Mattel! Schedule for 2019-2020 Meetings: Attached is a schedule for community meetings through May 2020. As a reminder, each Collaborative Leadership Team is expected to send at least one participant to each meeting and broad representation of Leadership Team members is encouraged. Meetings are recorded and archived in SharePoint in the Collaborative Community Webinars<http://sharepoint.ngcproject.org/Resources/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2FResources%2FCollaborative%20Support%20Calls%20and%20Webinars&FolderCTID=0x0120003C2FDA2731C8F04BB39B043C69E171BF&View=%7bAD457C8F-CC44-44E1-9EFD-8A4452A7B248%7d> folder. Welcome Amanda Fisher: Please welcome Amanda Fisher<http://ngcproject.org/amanda-fisher>, the Manager of Gender Equity Initiatives, a position held jointly between the National Girl Collaborative Project and the Association of Science and Technology Centers<https://www.astc.org/> (ASTC). Previously, Amanda spent over 10 years at OMSI<https://omsi.edu/>, developing new programs and working with STEM professionals to improve their communication skills. She will be managing our work in the IF/THEN<https://www.ifthenshecan.org/> Project, along with Jolene. We'll have more updates about this project at the November Collaborative Community meeting. Research to Practice Webinars in Partnership with SciGirls: As part of the SciGirls CONNECT2: Investigating the Use of Gender Equitable Teaching Strategies to Support STEM Identity Development in Youth, NSF-funded work, NGCP is leading the presentation of six national webinars(October-April) designed to connect research to practice using the updated SciGirls Strategies as a framework. We'll be providing an overview of these webinars at the meeting, releasing the complete schedule as part of our post-meeting materials. Please join us next week! Karen Karen Peterson, Founder & Chief Executive Officer The National Girls Collaborative and The Connectory @ngcproject @kpeterson Pronouns: she, her, hers