Online and Distance Learning Opportunities
Looking to plug a bit of career exploration or inspiration into your day?
Check out our online and distance learning opportunities guide 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
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