Company Founded by America’s First Woman in Space Set to Reach More Students & Educators in 2014 and Connect Young Women with STEM Fields and Careers San Diego, CA, January 25, 2014—As part of an ongoing mission to connect students to careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), Sally Ride Science will be taking […]
Million Women Mentors Launches National Movement…
Million Women Mentors Launches National Movement to Mobilize One Million Mentors of Girls & Young Women in STEM Education and Careers WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Million Women Mentors (MWM), a ground-breaking collaborative effort designed to engage one million science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) mentors, launches today at the National Press Club in Washington, […]
Sally Ride Science Executive Receives Harvard’s 2013 Stocker Award
VP of Marketing Jim Mills Honored for His Work with Harvard Business School Community Partners San Diego, CA, December 13, 2013: On December 3, the Harvard Business School (HBS) Club of Northern California Community Partners presented Sally Ride Science Vice President of Marketing Jim Mills with “The Jim Stocker Award for Volunteer Excellence” for his pro […]
Stanford School Of Engineering Names New Engineering Heroes
Nobel Prize winner, Google founders, the first woman in space and others honored for their contributions to technology and society. By Jamie Beckett A Nobel Prize winner, the founders of Google and the first woman in space are among the six people selected as this year’s Stanford Engineering Heroes, an honor recognizing those who have advanced […]
SALLY RIDE NAMED “STANFORD ENGINEERING HERO”
America’s first woman in space to be one of first two women to receive honor; fellow 2013 honorees include Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow. San Diego, CA, December 4, 2013: Today the Stanford School of Engineering named Sally Ride as one of six people selected as this year’s Stanford […]
President Obama Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Sally Ride
Sally Ride Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Washington, D.C., November 20, 2013: Today, President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dr. Sally Ride (posthumously), America’s first woman in space, a physics professor at UCSD, and the founder of Sally Ride Science. Accepting the award on her behalf were her longtime partner and co-founder of Sally Ride Science, Dr. Tam […]
Sally Ride Science Executives to Speak at First-Ever California STEM Symposium
Sacramento, November 15, 2013: On Monday, November 18, and Tuesday, November 19, Sally Ride Science will participate in the first-ever California STEM Symposium, to be held at the Sacramento Convention Center. Convening under the theme “Invest in California STEM Education: Innovate, Integrate, and Inspire,” the symposium will feature keynote presentations from Academy Award winner Geena […]
Sally Ride EarthKAM Takes Flight This Week
November Mission Still Accepting Students After October Mission Breaks Records San Diego, CA, November, 12, 2013—Sally Ride EarthKAM is set to begin another mission November 12-15, allowing students from across the world to operate a camera aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that captures custom images of the Earth’s surface. ISS EarthKAM was renamed by NASA […]
STEM Central Adds Social Media Tools
New Site from Sally Ride Science Now Enhanced for User Participation Enables Educators to Rate and Review Resources, and Submit Their Own San Diego, CA, November 7, 2013—Today, Sally Ride Science announced the launch of the next phase of STEM Central™, which was released in early October as a free web resource for educators and […]