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Engineer Girl
Pros: Content ranges from day-in-the-life profiles to Q&A pages, and girls can submit questions to a diverse collection of female engineers.
Cons: Interaction is limited to the ability to post questions.
Bottom Line: Empowering tool encourages girls to explore engineering but is mostly static and best-suited for choosing courses and looking at colleges.
As a static site, Engineer Girl is primarily useful for investigating engineering careers. However, teachers and career counselors can certainly use it to help interested girls explore the possibilities.
Through a visually appealing format, Engineer Girl gives girls information on the full range of engineering careers. The site is divided into three sections: Engineers, What They Do, and How To Get There. The first section, which is the bulk of the site, is dedicated to profiles of actual female engineers, with sections such as A Day in the Life and Ask an Engineer. It includes a place for registered users to ask questions of the engineers who also have registered on the site. The second section goes into more detail about the types of real-world problems engineers are currently solving. The final section focuses on what girls can do right now to get on track to become engineers. The site provides lists of clubs and competitions -- including the Engineer Girl Essay Contest -- that develop and encourage engineering-related skills. Every page also has tools for printing or emailing content and for sharing on social media sites.
The site does a great job of covering content from a variety of perspectives, and it includes information on the coursework needed to work in different engineering fields as well as the types of work that engineers do. The information about engineering careers is extensive and appears to be current. Girls can ask questions of adult women engineers, who themselves can register on the site as experts.
The only weakness is the relative scarcity of interactive materials. There are links to activities and quizzes on other sites, but there's no built-in functionality here except the ability to ask questions.
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Lots of good information but it needs video
Excellent information but LOTS of reading. Students who get overwhelmed easily by the written word will turn off quickly to this site. But the engineers seem very relatable and genuine; video confirm that.