Excuse multiple posts, please. ------ Greetings NGCP Collaborative Leads, 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 Collaborative Leads meeting of 2019, as well as to provide you with a few updates. 2019 Quarter One Meeting We hope that you can join us for our first quarterly meeting of 2019. We'd like to provide some updates and get your feedback. Please complete this Doodle Poll<https://doodle.com/poll/78n9svw6ufrr8c3b> 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 highlighting 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 had an action-packed month. We invite you to continue to elevate the importance of role model and mentoring by sharing the social media posts from #NGCPMentors2019 that speak to you. 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. Ten Collaboratives will be participating in screenings and activities. We will be distributing more information soon. We are looking forward to talking with you all soon. Karen Karen Peterson, Founder & Chief Executive Officer The National Girls Collaborative and The Connectory @ngcproject @kpeterson Pronouns: she, her, hers