Women and Mathematics Mentoring Program Durham and Wake Counties, NC

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Women and Mathematics Mentoring ProgramDurham
and Wake Counties, NC

• Benefits for mentees
• Awareness of math-related careers
• Increased self-confidence in math
• Higher appreciation for math-related careers
• Encouragement to take challenging high school
  math courses and participate in math summer
  enrichment programs
• Benefits for mentors
• Mentor group leaders to support mentors
• Networking with other women in math-related
  careers
• Satisfaction of supporting the next generation of
  girls in math-related careers

Are you a woman in a math-related career? Make
a difference in the life of 8th-grade girls!

• Currently recruiting mentors for the 14th year of
  WAM Program, serving 8th grade girls from public
  middle schools in Wake and Durham counties
• Mentors are women with careers in mathematics,
  science, technology or other math-related fields
• Goalto encourage girls to stay on the math
  path
• 2-3 8th-grade girls assigned per mentor
• Monthly interactions to allow girls to learn
  about mentors profession and other math-related
  careers
• Not a math tutoring program

MENTOR ORIENTATION for 2007-2008 Saturday,
December 1 from 9-11 am Meredith College, Raleigh
www.WomenandMathMentoring.org
For more information, contact Leila Goodwin
leila.goodwin_at_townofcary.org or 462-3846 Chantal
Shafroth cmshafroth_at_earthlink.net or
929-5428 or Durham Public Schools - Retella
Jones at 560-2158 Wake Country Public Schools -
Toni Cooper at 858-3239
Leila Goodwin 462-3846 leila.goodwin_at_townofcary.o
rg Chantal Shafroth 929-5428 cmshafroth_at_earthlink
.net
Leila Goodwin 462-3846 leila.goodwin_at_townofcary.o
rg Chantal Shafroth 929-5428 cmshafroth_at_earthlink
.net
Leila Goodwin 462-3846 leila.goodwin_at_townofcary.o
rg Chantal Shafroth 929-5428 cmshafroth_at_earthlink
.net
Leila Goodwin 462-3846 leila.goodwin_at_townofcary.o
rg Chantal Shafroth 929-5428 cmshafroth_at_earthlink
.net
Leila Goodwin 462-3846 leila.goodwin_at_townofcary.o
rg Chantal Shafroth 929-5428 cmshafroth_at_earthlink
.net