On September 11, 2013, NAPE CEO Mimi Lufkin led a discussion about equity and access in STEM as a guest host of the Big Beacon Twitter Chat. The weekly #BigBeacon Twitter Chat is a time when educators, professionals, and students alike come together to discuss topics, explore ideas, and build community around the common goal of transforming engineering education. Look for hashtag #BigBeacon every Wednesday at 8 pm EST.
View the storify summary. You can also access the summary from the BigBeacon blog post.
About Big Beacon
The Big Beacon is a Movement to Transform Engineering Education. An Illinois not-for-profit corporation, Big Beacon was organized to catalyze a global social movement to transform engineering education. The Big Beacon connects dots among individuals and organizations to collaboratively disrupt the status quo, thereby bringing about change to align engineering education (and by association K-12 STEM education) with the creativity imperative of our times. Read the Big Beacon Manifesto at http://bigbeacon.org.