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#STEMGems book by Stephanie Espy and STEM education created to #GiveGirlsRoleModels in STEM and open their eyes to a world of opportunity. 💎

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💜🩷💙💚 The 10th Annual STEM Gems Summit with @ATLSciFest + @SpelmanCollege celebrated a decade of impact. Thank you to the volunteers, educators, parents, incredible #WomenInSTEM, sponsors, partners, and the team led by the phenomenal Careshia Moore. 10 years takes a village 💎
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Celebrate 10 years of STEM Gems with Dr. Mae Jemison on November 7! 💜 Buy tickets or become a sponsor. 🔗 zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/he…
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👏 @SpelmanCollege is the nation’s No. 1 HBCU for the 20th consecutive year, now led by former NASA engineer Dr. Ayanna Howard (@robotsmarts). 💎 🔗 afrotech.com/spelman-college…
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Vanessa Ruta just rewrote what we thought insects were capable of, starting with a fruit fly chasing a scent. Her lab found flies track odor plumes using real memory, remembering the way back after the trail goes cold. 🪰 🔗 rockefeller.edu/news/40149-f…
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Scientist Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz just helped identify the first new wildcat species in over a century! 🐆 The tilcayo is a small leopard-spotted cat found in Bolivia's Yungas cloud forests. 🔗 scientificamerican.com/artic…
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Oana Jinga co-founded the robotics company Dexory with no robotics experience. She says the field can draw more women by talking about what robots make possible, like making dangerous environments safer. 🔗 fortune.com/2026/09/16/robot…
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Jessica Ayers studies friendship for a living. Turns out the quantity vs quality framework researchers borrowed from parenting and reproduction studies doesn't actually hold up for how we pick friends. 🔗 scientificamerican.com/podca…
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Julia Collins became the first Black woman to co-found a unicorn company. Then she walked away and built something more purposeful, a $25M platform helping food, fashion, and beauty companies cut emissions. 🔗 afrotech.com/unicorn-founder… #WomenInTech
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12-year-old Mana Jampala built Voxa, an AI receptionist that's already fielding hundreds of calls for small businesses. She taught herself to code using ChatGPT and Claude, testing small snippets before building on. 🔗 businessinsider.com/gen-alph… #GirlsInSTEM
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Saturday marked 34 years since Mae Jemison became the first Black woman in space! An engineer, physician and dancer, she brought a world of experience into orbit. 🔗 space.com/space-exploration/… #WomenInSTEM
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Rayna Reid Rayford built Pregnant and Black after doctors dismissed her pain and nearly missed a ruptured appendix. The free app connects pregnant women to real time advocates. 🔗 essence.com/health-and-welln… #WomenInSTEM
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Lila Ibrahim detasseled corn in Indiana for about a dollar an hour at 14. Now she is Google DeepMind's chief AI readiness officer, one of its most senior leaders. 🔗 fortune.com/2026/08/12/googl… #WomenInSTEM
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Simone Giertz spent a decade on YouTube building deliberately bad robots. Now she's inventing real fixes, like a laundry chair that hides your clothes and a fruit bowl that resizes itself. 🔗 scientificamerican.com/podca… #WomenInSTEM
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AI is changing what “entry-level” means in tech. As tools like Copilot take over grunt work, junior hires are being handed harder, higher-level work earlier — reshaping how the next generation builds their careers. 🔗 businessinsider.com/ai-is-ra… #WomenInTech
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Stigma isn’t just a social problem for FemTech founders. It can block access to funding, advertising, banking, and customers. New research reveals how founders are pushing past these barriers. 🔗 forbes.com/sites/rachelbraun… #WomenInSTEM
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AI job postings in the US have doubled since 2023, but women landed only 26% of AI hires last year, despite 50% of non-AI hires. They hold just 13% of AI C-suite roles across 27 countries. LinkedIn calls it a Triple Penalty. 🔗 fortune.com/2026/08/31/women… #WomenInAI
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Karen-Happuch Henneh survived a deadly flood in Accra as a teen. Nearly a decade later she taught herself to code and built Asuo, an offline flood safety app now scaling to flood-prone zones worldwide. 🔗 afrotech.com/karen-happuch-h… #WomenInSTEM
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Dr. Tania Small says Black patients say yes to clinical trials more often than White patients, yet doctors rarely offer them one. As SVP at Bristol Myers Squibb, she revamped trial eligibility criteria to close that gap. 🔗 essence.com/lifestyle/health… #WomenInSTEM
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Ida Tin coined "femtech" in 2016. Now she's leading a €40M challenge to build biosensors tracking hormones in real time, calling them "the operating system of the body." 🔗 forbes.com/sites/geristengel… #WomenInSTEM
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Clara Lazen was ten years old when she built a molecule in science class that no chemist had ever described, and became a published co-author. 🔗 spacedaily.com/b-a-fifth-gra…
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