Online and Distance Learning Opportunities

Looking to plug a bit of career exploration or inspiration into your day?

Vermont Works for Women has put together three NEW video series!

• Tech@Work Online is a speaker series program that introduces tech center students to gender diverse role models in various industries and career fields.
• VWW Quick Tips: Get to know a different VWW staff member each week as they showcase tools, skills, fun activities they are doing at home while we all social distance and serve our community remotely.
• What’s in Rosie’s Toolbox: a weekly video series where our very own Nell Carpenter, Youth Program Manager, will highlight useful tools, interview professionals and offer up fun, at-home, activities!

We also have an online and distance learning opportunities guide below for some video, computer games/activities, worksheet, home activity, and book suggestions related to STEAM career exploration, career related skill development, gender based empowerment, and more!

Need more recommendations? Reach out to our Youth Program Manager, Nell, at ncarpenter@vtworksforwomen.org. 

Videos: 

• Women In Construction, TED Talk
• Sisters in the Brotherhood: A Film About Women Carpenters
• Car Maintenance 101: All About Auto Fluids – Woman’s Work
• Women Who Weld
• American Welding Society feature on women welders
• Dykes with Drills 
• Women in software engineering Q&A
• Blackgurltech 
• Personal Finance TedEd videos for youth
• Career exploration mini series 
• House build time lapse
• Learn about a few women heroes in American history

Computer games/activities: 

• Roller coaster builder 
• Construction/engineering game
• City planning game 
• Welding simulator 
• Coding for kids
• More coding games for kids
• Flight simulator
• Personal finance game, Sand Dollar City
• Personal finance games, BizKids
• Salary negotiation workshop
• Careers aptitude test
• From PBS, games to learn about bridges, domes, skyscrapers, tunnels, and dams

Non-computer/Internet options

• Construction trades math workbook
• Shape drawing worksheets
• Printable graph paper (for drawing blueprints/shapes/floorplans)
• Measurement worksheets
• Books: 
  • The House That Lou Built, Mae Respicio 
  • The Careers Handbook, Sarah Pawlewski 
  • Lab Girl, Hope Jahren
  • In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom, Qanta A. Ahmed 
  • Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History, Sam Maggs 

Hands-on Activities

• NASA stem exploration resources and at-home activities for K-4, middle school, and high school (check out their highlights on women too!)
• National Geographic experiments for kids 
• Low material STEAM demos