Several of our partner and affiliate organizations offer opportunities to volunteer, with participation available on a local or a national level. Here are some ideas to get you started:

• MentorNet's industry-focused E-Mentoring One-on-One program pairs students one-on-one with men and women in the field who can share experiences, advice, and encouragement. MentorNet's Academic Career E-Mentoring program pairs graduate students and early career faculty with tenured faculty mentors. www.mentornet.net.
• Girl Scouts of the USA is a broad-reaching resource for extracurricular science and technology education among girls, with over 300 local councils. www.girlscouts.org/volunteer/.
• The Center for Women and Information Technology at the University of Maryland at Baltimore keeps a great set of resources for getting involved with technology summer camps, finding a computer science graduate program, visiting a girls-specific website or simply reading more about this issue. www.umbc.edu/cwit/resources.html.

The National Girls Collaborative Project encourages K-12 girls to enter STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) disciplines and fields of study by promoting collaboration between local programs. The NGCP seeks to connect existing and evolving projects and programs, maximize access to shared resources within projects, and strengthen capacity of existing and evolving projects by sharing research and program models, outcomes and products. http://www.pugetsoundcenter.org/ngcp/.