Make the Future™, Connecting Girls to Manufacturing
Make the Future™, Connecting Girls to Manufacturing aims to encourage women and girls, especially those of color, to take part in STEM education and pursue advanced manufacturing careers. Toyota USA Foundation funds the program.
The NAPE Education Foundation’s Make the Future program, funded by Toyota USA Foundation, provides free methods and tools to help educators, counselors, administrators, and recruiters break down barriers. These barriers limit females and other historically underrepresented student groups from taking education paths that can prepare them for high-demand advanced manufacturing careers.
We work with Toyota manufacturing plants in Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia where young women are successfully working in advanced manufacturing careers and having fun doing it.
Join the campaign to expand female students’ career options.
Free tools to download:
Connect with Your Audience
Connect with your audience using effective videos and messages on social media.
Use Effective Strategies
Recruiting more females and underrepresented populations requires a comprehensive recruitment strategy. These tools can help you develop one for your organization.
Have questions or want to participate? Contact Mimi Lufkin.
Overview: Culture shapes our biases and beliefs about people based on their age, gender, race, language, (dis)ability, or income level, often without our realization. We communicate our biases in our world, often unknowingly, through micromessages. The accumulation of micromessages over time impacts a person’s belief in his or her own ability to be successful in a course, class, college, and career. Through interactive and reflective activities on the power of culture on our interactions with students, this online module will equip educators with specific strategies to support student participation, persistence, engagement and success.