Women In Steam

The toolkit includes the famed chemist Agnes Pockels who pioneered work on water tension, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai who founded the Green Belt Movement, the engineer Godliver Businge who is doing work as the regional director of technology for the Global Women’s Water Initiative, the artist Susan Hoffman Fishman who is making art that raises awareness for global water issues, entrepreneur Cynthia Koenig who is creating ways for her business to help people accesses water in a simpler way, and 2015 Google Science Fair winner Lalita Prasida who created a way to filter water from recycled corn cobs. These lessons demonstrate how women have been making a difference and can show your students the diverse representation that they need to see while teaching them important academic lessons!