PROJECT TITLE :

Engaging High School Girls: Spending a Saturday afternoon watching brain waves [Pipelining: Attractive Programs for Women]

ABSTRACT:

This past spring, 35 ladies spent a Saturday afternoon during a darkened hotel space monitoring brain waves. Part of a larger IEEE meeting, the girls, all from Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Homestead High College Women Exploring Math and Science (GEMS) club, watched how their own brain waves looked stimulated by numerous activities. Half of a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workshop designed and led by college and student volunteers of the Milwaukee Faculty of Engineering (MSOE), the highschool students conducted activities while carrying wireless headsets that sent their brainwaves to laptop PCs running MATLAB software.