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How Jennifer Rodrigues Turned Curiosity Into a Global Engineering Journey

By |2026-07-01T15:34:00-04:00July 1st, 2026|Categories: Uncategorized|

As an international student and woman in STEM, Jennifer Rodrigues tapped into her leadership skills through SWE and now mentors the next generation of engineers.Read more at All Together

Unusually Smooth Sections of Asteroid Itokawa

By |2026-06-30T16:44:56-04:00June 30th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why are parts of this asteroid's surface so smooth? The answer seems likely to do with the dynamics of an asteroid that is a loose pile of rubble rather than a solid rock. The unusual asteroid Itokawa was visited by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa in 2005 which imaged and documented [...]

SWE CEO Advances STEM Workforce Priorities During Washington, D.C., Visit

By |2026-06-30T16:30:00-04:00June 30th, 2026|Categories: Uncategorized|

SWE leaders met with lawmakers and STEM policy partners to champion workforce reentry, education, and opportunities for women in engineering.Read more at All Together

Building a Bigger Table: My Girl Scout Gold Award Journey With InnovateHER

By |2026-06-29T12:19:00-04:00June 29th, 2026|Categories: Uncategorized|

SWENexter and Girl Scout Avani T. shares the lessons she learned through creating the InnovateHER conference and discusses how the SWENext Conference Playbook can help others build STEM outreach events.Read more at All Together

The AI Paradox: How AI Could Widen — or Close — Gender Gaps

By |2026-06-22T13:15:00-04:00June 22nd, 2026|Categories: Uncategorized|

AI-enabled roles are rapidly reshaping the global workforce. Drawing on global labor data, industry reports, and emerging research on AI adoption, the SWE Research Division examines ways AI is perpetuating workplace gender disparities.Read more at All Together

Daytime Moon Meets Evening Star

By |2026-06-20T16:44:57-04:00June 20th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Venus is now appearing on the celestial stage as Earth's brilliant evening star, performing with the Moon, other wandering planets, and bright stars in western skies. For evening sky gazers on June 17, the celestial beacon rose after sunset close by a young, slender, crescent Moon. But from some locations [...]

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