Empower your career with Lab Manager Academy. Traditional scientific programs often overlook the essential skills needed to effectively manage a lab. Lab Manager Academy addresses this gap, with courses covering technical, leadership, safety, and management topics crucial to the success of any laboratory. You can try a free introductory course and experience what Lab Manager can offer you.

Girls Who Code is excited to offer Pathways this summer from Monday, June 29th, through Friday, August 14th! This seven-week program is a free, flexible online learning opportunity for students who want to learn coding at their own pace. Participants will be able to explore coursework in five tracks throughout the program: Data Science + AI, Game Design, Web Development, Cybersecurity, and AI + Society. Beyond coding, students gain real-world insights through virtual Partner Events with leading tech organizations. They can also connect with peers through Girls Who Code’s private Discord community and join optional Student Hours for live support and collaboration. For students who participated in Pathways during 2025, this summer's program will offer new courses and virtual events, as well as the chance to explore coursework you may have missed previously! Pathways is open to high school girls and non-binary students of all experience levels, including rising 9th graders, graduating seniors, and returning participants.

Uncertainty in US scientific funding is causing some researchers to consider leaving the US for an international career. Read about the experiences of women who have explored a global pathway.

Do you dread the conversations that matter most? Silence, avoidance, and misunderstandings don't just slow down your team - they actively undermine innovation and trust. Difficult conversations are inevitable, but the stress and uncertainty surrounding them don't have to be! Learn how courage, clarity, and intention can invite deeper meaning and make difficult conversations productive in the NCWIT Media Hub.

Traditional workforce planning, based primarily on job titles and static role definitions, no longer provides the clarity organizations need. Shifting to skills-based strategies allows organizations to make hiring, mobility, and development decisions based on capability rather than job title. Historically, workforce planning has focused on roles and headcount. HR teams would forecast how many positions were needed in each department and match them to the skills they believed were required. While this provides a high-level view of staffing needs, it misses the real complexity of how work gets done. For example, a “Marketing Operations Manager” and a “Sales Enablement Specialist” might both spend most of their time building workflows in the same CRM system, analyzing pipeline data, and optimizing campaigns – yet appear to be doing unrelated work in most HR systems. Without task-level visibility, that overlapping work – and those shared capabilities – stay hidden, leading to duplicated effort and cost, as well as missed opportunities to pool expertise or redeploy talent. This also prevents leaders from understanding where automation or AI could free up capacity – or where new skills will be needed as work evolves. Traditional planning treats the workforce as a static set of roles, unlike task-level intelligence, which treats it as a dynamic system of work in motion.

Representing SWE’s highest level of awards, the APEX Awards honor individuals with 20+ years of professional experience, which celebrates high levels of achievement among those who identify as women and allies at all career stages in engineering, engineering technology, or science related to engineering. This year’s award recipients include several brilliant minds in STEM. Watch their conversations here and wait till the end for a fun rapid fire round which award recipients enjoyed, and we hope you will too.

What if chemists borrowed a page from celebrity chefs—their mastery of human-centered storytelling that wins over the public’s palate? AWIS member Savanah Saldaña-Shumaker offers this idea as a way to connect with the public.

A little known part of grant funding, indirect research costs are essential costs such as facilities, equipment, and personnel. The JAG Model is a new approach to increase transparency, accountability, and clarity in federal research funding.

Equip yourself with the tools to empower the next generation of tech leaders – like the NCWITC4C Resource Booklet. This comprehensive guide is full of information, resources, and actionable steps counselors and educators can use to support students as they explore CS and careers, like: Which Computing Pathway is Right for Me; Plentiful Jobs, High Starting Salaries and Opportunities in Every Industry; Top 10 Ways CS Educators Can Engage School Counselors; Community College, Military, and University Pathways to IT and Computing Careers. Computer Science underlies many other fields and disciplines and by understanding the intersection of CSed with other industries, we can best equip today’s youth for educational pathways to sustainable careers!

Since 1950, SWE has continued its support of the next generation of engineers and innovators. Now, you have the opportunity to continue that legacy. The SWE Legacy Endowed Scholarship provides essential financial support to students pursuing degrees in engineering, technology, and computer science. Your contribution doesn’t just fund a scholarship—it opens doors, creates opportunities, and helps future engineers thrive. Every donation ensures that talented students have the resources they need to succeed. Join us in making education more accessible and shaping the future of engineering.