PROFILE

Rita Karl

Executive Producer, SciGirls and Managing Director, STEM Media and Education

Twin Cities PBS, Inc.

About informal science

Projects

Black SciGirls: Investigating a Culturally Responsive Media-enriched Approach to STEM Teaching and Learning SciGirls in the National Parks: Building Positive STEM Identities in Underserved Girls in Citizen Science Programs Using Gender Equitable and Culturally Responsive Practices BRAINedu: A Window into the Brain/Una ventana al cerebra — Providing Hispanic Students and Families with Bilingual Resources about Brain Structure and Function, Neuroscience Careers and Mental Health

SciGirls Strategies: Gender Equitable Teaching Practices in Career and Technical Education Pathways for High School Girls Code: SciGirls! Media to Engage Girls in Computing Pathways SciGirls CONNECT2: Investigating the Use of Gender Equitable Teaching Strategies to Support STEM Identity Development in Youth Full-Scale Development: "Citizen SciGirls" Transmedia and Research to Encourage Girls in STEM (SciGirls Season 3) SciGirls CONNECT SciGirls Season 2 Latina SciGirls: Promoting Middle School-Age Hispanic Girls' Postitive STEM Identity Development

Research

2021 Poster - Expanding Code SciGirls Camp to Engage African American Girls 2021 Poster - Black SciGirls: Investigating a Culturally Responsive PBS Media-Enriched Approach to STEM Teaching and Learning 2021 Poster - SciGirls in the National Parks

Latinas at Work 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: Latina SciGirls 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster - Code: SciGirls! 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: SciGirls Connect2 SciGirls Strategies: Using Gender-Equitable Teaching Strategies and STEM Video Narratives to Engage Girls in Nontraditional STEM Fields Poster: Latina SciGirls, Promoting Middle School-Age Hispanic Girls' Positive STEM Identity Development Poster - SciGirls Season 2: TV Series, Website and Outreach