About Us

Goals
The targeted audience of The Gender Chip Project is adults and organizations that serve girls from the ages of eleven to eighteen years of age including high school teachers, guidance counselors, parents, after school programs, teacher in-service educators and college recruiters.

The goals of the Project are to support the advancement of education and self-development for girls and women who enter academic studies in the STEM fields. The film, multi-media resource kits, and workshop guides will provide the unique information, training and tools to help young women identify and articulate possible gender based obstacles they might meet and ways for navigating them in a positive way.

Unique Partnership
The Gender Chip Project is a unique project resulting from an extraordinary partnership of educators, women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers, and educational media makers. They include:

• Media Working Group
• The Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University
• Ohio State University Partners Consortium (Office of the President, The Alumni Association, and University Relations)
• Active Voice
• Women Make Movies
• The Institute for Women and Technology
• The Exploratorium
• Mills College
• University of Massachusetts Boston's Community Media and Technology Program
• Hughes Center High School for Teaching and Technology
• UMass Boston, Community Media and Technology link

Active Voice and Public Engagement
The Gender Chip Project is pleased to be working with Active Voice (www.activevoice.net) to design and implement our Action Toolkit as well as an ambitious national outreach and workshop program.

Active Voice is a team of strategic communication specialists who put powerful media to work for personal and institutional change in communities, workplaces, and campuses across America. Through their practical guides, hands-on workshops, stimulating events and key partnerships nationwide, Active Voice moves people from thought to action. By highlighting compelling personal stories and perspectives seldom found in mainstream media, they offer a much-needed outlet to people across America to speak out, listen up, and take the initiative for positive change.

Support
The Gender Chip Project has been generously supported by the National Science Foundation, The Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University; Ohio State University Partners Consortium (Office of the President, The Alumni Association, and University Relations); Ohio Arts Council, Kentucky Arts Council and Media Working Group.

If you'd like to support us in the important work make an online contribution through our Store. Thanks!