STEM Archives - Maritime Shipping News

229 Team Full Foarce – World’s Toughest Row 2024 Pacific

14 December 2023

The race of a lifetime

Four adventurous women are preparing for the World’s Toughest Row 2024. They will row from Monterey, California, to Hawaii. That takes at least thirty-five days. Listen to my conversation with Cassidy Hurd and Elaina Loveless, how it all came about, how they prepare, and their goal.

Mission:“To be a competitive, energetic, and uplifting team who forms lifelong friendships, embraces the journey and emerges as champions. We strive to ignite a passion in young women,...

https://shippingpodcast.com/229-team-full-foarce-worlds-toughest-row-2024-pacific/

Peel Ports partners with Innovate Her to encourage inclusion and promote STEM subjects to Liverpool students

13 April 2022

Peel Ports Group has partnered with social enterprise Innovate Her to encourage diversity and inclusion across the organisation and promote STEM subjects to hundreds of female students
across Liverpool.

The national port operator has pledged its support to the organisation after recognising that the maritime sector must become more inclusive and support greater gender diversity.

The latest collaboration is among several initiatives from Peel Ports to encourage more women into the business.

Innovate...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/04/13/peel-ports-partners-with-innovate-her-to-encourage-inclusion-and-promote-stem-subjects-to-liverpool-students/

Ryder System creates supply chain merit patch for Girl Scouts

18 December 2020

Kitty Dumas wasn’t a Girl Scout growing up, though she would have liked to be. The manager of the Ryder System Inc. (NYSE: R) Charitable Foundation came up with the idea to link the signature Girl Scout Cookie Sale with the massive supply chain effort it entails.

Girl Scouts sell and distribute more than 200 million boxes of cookies nationwide, and 1 billion worldwide annually. In South Florida, the Girls Scouts of Tropical Florida (GSTF) accounts for more than 400,000 boxes of cookies each year.

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/carting-cookies-supply-chain-merit-patch-created-for-girl-scouts