{"id":1134,"date":"2019-03-12T14:27:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2019-03-13T14:30:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T20:30:23","slug":"ssc-hosts-women-in-stem-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/ssc-hosts-women-in-stem-program\/","title":{"rendered":"SSC Hosts Women in STEM Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several professional women and current college students recently shared their success stories in a program entitled \u201cWomen in STEM: We are Unstoppable!\u201d\u00a0 The program was provided to encourage young women to consider a career in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Theran Hernandez, Seminole State College Assistant Professor of Life Sciences<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The\nidea for the program came from Jarrod Tollett, Associate Professor of Engineering\nand Physics at SSC. As a father of three young daughters, he became inspired to\nencourage other girls and women to pursue STEM related academics and careers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\nwent to a conference recently that featured a Girls in STEM video, and it\nreally captured me.  I thought about my\nown daughters and how I want them to know they can do anything and that they\nshould never restrict themselves.  I\ndecided to bring the idea back to SSC. \nStudent Support Services and STEM Student Support Services jumped on\nboard and we co-sponsored the event,\u201d Tollett said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily\nCarpenter, SSC Assistant Professor of Math and Transitional Math Coordinator,\nmoderated the event and also invited the guest speakers.  \u201cI wanted to make sure we had a wide range of\nprofessionals represented.  I also wanted\nto include current college students so that young girls could see that young\nwomen are in the process of achieving their goals.  We had several area schools attend and I\nbelieve they heard a lot of inspirational stories as well as a lot of\ninformation about career fields,\u201d Carpenter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professional\nwomen who spoke included: Melanne Greenwood, GCTC STEM Outreach Coordinator;\nJean Lancaster, Accountant; Theran Hernandez, SSC Assistant Professor of Life\nSciences; Shakira Judeh, Physical Therapist and Director of the SSS Physical\nTherapy Assistant program; Chrissie Boatman, Registered Nurse; and Amber\nStachmus, Physician\u2019s Assistant. \nStudents who spoke at the program included: Vanessa Sisseck, SSC Medical\nLab Tech student; Tijah Johnson, SSC Pre-Nursing student, Mattie Wood, SSC\nPre-Engineering student; and Lilly Bryant, OU Architectural Engineering\nstudent.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\nam thankful that Jarrod and Carpenter asked our two grants to jump on board and\nsupport this program. It was very enriching and encouraging to hear the\ndifferent success stories from our faculty, students, and area professionals.  This is our second year and Emily did a great\njob incorporating new voices into the program. It is not only good for young\ngirls, but for all of our college students to hear these great success stories,\u201d\nManlapig said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For\nmore information about STEM degrees at SSC, contact Tollett by phone at\n405-382-9217 or by email at j.tollet@sscok.edu. For more information about\nStudent Support Services or STEM Student Support Services, please contact\nManlapig at 405-382-9642 or visit www.sscok.edu\/sss<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several professional women and current college students recently shared their success stories in a program entitled \u201cWomen in STEM: We are Unstoppable!\u201d\u00a0 The program was provided to encourage young women to consider a career in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[66,67],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-academics","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-faculty-staff","tag-march-2019","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}