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    VentureGirls: Raising Girls to Be Tomorrow's Leaders
    VentureGirls: Raising Girls to Be Tomorrow's Leaders
    VentureGirls: Raising Girls to Be Tomorrow's Leaders
    Audiobook9 hours

    VentureGirls: Raising Girls to Be Tomorrow's Leaders

    Written by Cristal Glangchai

    Narrated by Sandy Rustin

    4.5/5

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    From an engineer and entrepreneur, a conversation-changing parenting book about how to engage young women in science, technology, engineering, and math, filled with practical advice for both parents and educators.

    “VentureGirls is rich with inspiration and practical insights for parents, teachers, and everyone who cares about raising kids to be innovators and changemakers.”—Rod Arnold, founder, The Frontier Agency

    As the female CEO of a tech startup, Dr. Cristal Glangchai was outnumbered twenty to one. At Google, Twitter, and Facebook, women currently fill just ten to twenty percent of technical jobs. While career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math have increased dramatically in the past twenty years, the achievement gap between men and women has only grown wider.

    In VentureGirls, Glangchai offers a unique solution based on her own experience as an engineer and entrepreneur as well as the founder of the VentureLab, an academy of entrepreneurship and technology for girls. Practical, accessible, and filled with success stories, VentureGirls argues that a key part of raising strong, confident young women is giving them the tools of entrepreneurship to engage in STEM.

    Entrepreneurship isn’t just about starting companies, Glangchai writes, it is a skillset and a way of thinking that is particularly useful in the fields of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. Entrepreneurship involves identifying needs, brainstorming creative solutions, innovating, and taking calculated risks. In short, it’s about having a vision and making it a reality. The true value in learning and practicing entrepreneurship, Glangchai argues, lies in nurturing and growing an overall mindset—the ability to learn from failure and to work well with others to bring your ideas to life.

    Deeply informative, warm, and grounded in real-world experience, VentureGirls includes a plethora of activities and lessons that focus on strengthening kids’ ingenuity and resilience. VentureGirls is essential reading for anyone who wants to raise girls and young women who realize their strength, engage in the world, and feel empowered to make a positive impact.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMay 8, 2018
    ISBN9780062799586
    Author

    Cristal Glangchai

    Cristal Glangchai, PhD, is a scientist, entrepreneur, and mentor with a passion for teaching and engaging girls in entrepreneurship, science, and technology. She is the founder and CEO of VentureLab, a nonprofit that runs experiential learning programs in youth entrepreneurship. She is the director of the Texas Entrepreneurial Exchange at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Glangchai recently served as the director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Trinity University. Prior to that, she founded a nanotechnology drug delivery company and ran the Idea to Product Program at the University of Texas at Austin.

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    • 4/5
      A helpful guide for parents, educators, or anyone who knows a girl or any young child that they care about. The book explains briefly about the deficit of women in the sciences and some possible reasons for why this might be. The rest of the book is full of suggestions about how to teach young girls to work hard, not be afraid to fail, and explore their creativity in new and potentially profitable ways. Although I don't have any children, I found this book to be a useful reminder for myself. It's never too late to start thinking about your brain as an ever-changing quantity that can be changed and improved through effort.
    • 5/5
      I requested a copy of this book for the Early Reviewer program and was very pleasantly surprised by the read.I am a women in a STEM field and often question why I had to push against the grain to get into a role that was more technical and I was pleased to see some great solutions in the stories in the book for how we can avoid that for the next generation of girls. The passion of inspiring girls to find out how things work, encouraging them to pursue entrepreneurial skills and programs, and building leadership skills are wonderful themes throughout the book. I would recommend this to anyone who interacts with women/girls in their life--everyone!
    • 5/5
      I received a copy of Venture Girls by Cristal Glangchai through The Librarything’s Early Review program. What an interesting and thought-provoking book about inspiring young girls in the STEM subjects. I intend to share this book and information with anyone who will listen to me.
    • 5/5
      Wow! This book is terrific! It reads like a Malcolm Gladwell book with supporting stories about our society and how we are not doing a good enough job at encouraging girls and women to enter STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) programs and professions. What an incredible read. For a research/case study book, it had me fired up about 1/3 of the way into the book. I was wishing I worked for VentureLab making a difference everyday and inspiring girls to be creative, to be entrepreneur and by all means, to think and challenge and come up with solutions to problems in today's world. It made me wish I had pursued by own original plans of becoming a doctor but, as countless stories in this book reflected, I was told by a college counselor when looking for advice that the medical field was no place for a women, especially a women who also had plans to be a wife and mother. Discouraged and feeling I did not have the support and guidance I needed to navigate the complicated and discouraging gateway classes, I switched majors into a Humanities degree. Thankfully, I was able to find a passion for International Business so in the end it worked out, but I can't help but wonder, what if? What if society was more encouraging towards women in STEM careers? What if that counselor and just suggested a way or been more encouraging? What if I had stuck to the science and just tweaked things a bit? This book is full of great stories that will inspire, great solutions and ideas to help encourage girls and boys in your own homes and communities and a network of people to go to for help. This is an issue that we can all do something about, starting today? Encourage kids to ask questions, to think about things scientifically, to take things apart and put them back together again, to get dirty! Help them learn to code. With all of the technological advancements, learning some from of tech will be invaluable to them. Give girls Lego sets, erector sets, get them working on a car so that they too will be inspired by how things work. And it doesn't stop there. Our country thrives when entrepreneurs continue to start new businesses or grow existing ones, creating economies and more jobs. Inspire kids to be entrepreneurs. To look for solutions to problems. How to manage money, businesses, presentations, idea generation...rather than stifling creativity to fit into the same molds we have been pushing as a society on boys jobs and girls jobs. In the end, our nation and our world depend on their creative minds and their ability to see possibilities beyond our wildest imaginations. I highly recommend this book and the inspiration it brings to everyone!
    • 5/5
      I won this through the early reviewers program.As a mother to a young girl, this book meant everything to me. It truly covers how to raise our young women to believe in their abilities and it has great insight on how to help foster that growth.I strongly suggest any mother/teacher/caregiver read this!
    • 5/5
      This book was such an important book to read. In our world today, it is even more important for girls and women to realize how empowered they can be and how they can do just as much, or more, than their male counterparts.As a teacher myself, STEM programs have really become an important part of our schools, and I am finding just how motivating and inspiring they are for all students. The author did a fantastic job exploring the possibilities for females all over the world.