VentureLab Blog

Free Entrepreneurship Education Resources

Ignite entrepreneurial thinking with VentureLab’s free entrepreneurship education resources! Discover hands-on activities, downloads and printables, and ESTEAM-based challenges that empower students of all ages to develop essential skills, think critically, and collaborate effectively.
Elevate your teaching and help shape the next generation of diverse innovators with these free entrepreneurship education resources. Dive into our collection of inspiring, engaging, and free educational tools!

To Understand Gender Differences, See How Children Communiucate

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
Posted in
In my last post, I explored how some researchers are trying to present evidence of gender differences to teachers and parents that can help them understand how to best help them learn better. Boys and girls are different. They learn differently, and they communicate differently. But each is equally capable of achievement in STEAM fields. It’s…

Adapting To, and Changing, The Reality of Bias

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
Posted in
Women often face the challenge of being overlooked or interrupted in conversations, a reality combated by phrases such as “Stop interrupting me,” and “No explanation needed”. This issue is particularly prevalent in male-dominated fields like science and engineering. However, many women, such as Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd College, have overcome these hurdles to achieve great success. It’s essential to instill confidence in girls and reassure them that they can flourish despite inherent gender biases.

Subtle Gender Bias Stifles Woman in Science

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
Posted in
It’s not news that gender bias persists at U.S. universities, especially in the sciences. What’s surprising is how long-lasting and pervasive this bias is. Even today, gender biases continue to color how female academics are viewed professionally. Science professors at U.S. universities widely regarded women undergraduates as less competent than men with the same skills…

Bridging a Generation Gender Gap In Science

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
Posted in
While opportunities in technology have exploded since 2000, fewer women today are actually pursuing computer science degrees than in the 1970s and 1980s, when women made up one quarter of all computer science students in the nation’s colleges and universities. A generation ago, young women were pursuing computer science in earnest. Today women make up…

How Science Treats Women VS. Men

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
Posted in
If anyone doubts that young women face discouragement because of their gender, consider Barbara Barres, who was a prominent female neurobiologist at Stanford University. Early in her studies as a student at MIT, Barres had solved a tough math problem. Rather than praise her for her work, her professor remarked, “Your boyfriend must have solved…

Women in Science Will Build Our Nation’s Future

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
Posted in
Young women have made amazing strides—in law, business, life sciences, and a number of other fields that are traditionally male domains. But engineering and computer science are a different story. There is still a lower proportion of women majoring in computer science in U.S. colleges and universities than a generation ago. The percentage of young…

Entrepreneurial Thinking Changes Girls’ Futures

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
Posted in
When girls (and boys) are exposed to entrepreneurial thinking, a profound change takes place. They learn to solve problems, to think critically and to recognize opportunities. Take the example of a group of 5- and 6-year-olds who participated in a weeklong VentureLab summer camp. Very soon after learning that they could become entrepreneurs, these children…

Why I Founded VentureLab

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
Posted in
When I led the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, I noticed how differently men and women responded in class. Even the most accomplished and confident women had a tendency to become timid in a classroom environment, while men seemed to display much more confidence, even if they were less prepared than female students. I realized that this behavior was entrenched at an early age. And I decided to see what I could do to help change this. With these thoughts in mind, in 2013 I started VentureLab, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching entrepreneurial skills to children—with a particular focus on teaching girls.

The Differences In How Men and Women React In Learning

By Dr. Cristal Glangchai
Posted in
Often men and women react differently in a learning environment. When I was leading the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, this situation became crystal clear to me. I observed striking differences between male and female students in class. Young women whom I saw strolling around campus fully engaged…

Recent Posts