PRESS ADVISORY
Contact: Jeff Weaver, Melony Ritter
(501) 760.6410 office
press@np.edu
August 15, 2016
GOVERNOR KEYNOTE AT MILLION WOMEN MENTORS EVENT
Hot Springs, Arkansas – National Park College (NPC) will host a Million Women Mentors event Wednesday, August 24 at 10 a.m. in the Eisele Auditorium of the Frederick M. Dierks Center for Nursing and Health Sciences at National Park College. Lt. Governor, Tim Griffin will give a keynote address about the importance of mentoring. The event is free and open to the public.
Million Women Mentors is a nationwide movement to support the engagement of 1 million STEM mentors, both male and female, to mentor girls from school age to work age and help encourage them to persist and succeed in STEM programs and careers by the year 2019. Walmart is partnering with STEMConnector® and Lt. Governor, Tim Griffin, to launch the initiative in Arkansas.
By 2020, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) related employment is projected to increase to over 8.5 million jobs leaving over 3 million STEM roles unfilled. While women represent about half of the professional workforce, they represent only 25 percent of the current STEM workforce.
The agenda will also include remarks from Dr. Rebekah Robinette, Microbiology and Anatomy and Physiology Instructor at NPC, Alanah Claybaugh, student at Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts (ASMSA), Kelli Albrecht, Vice President for Workforce and Strategic Initiatives at NPC, and Andrea Roberts, Senior Manager of STEM Strategy for Walmart. The event is expected to last approximately one hour.
