Ace & Riley Blends Microscopes, Lab Coats, and Tutu’s With STEM Skills and Playtime to Give Girls the Start They Deserve
January 14, 2021 16:30 ET | Source: Ace & Riley Ace & Riley McBain Avenue, CANADA
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)
Ace & Riley is a Vancouver-based toy company tired of seeing gendered toys persist on toy shelves and is actively producing toys to disrupt this through offering little girls the same opportunities to develop their brains that have long been afforded to little boys.
“When we’re looking at the big picture, women make up more than 50% of the workforce, however, they only make up 20% of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) careers, occupying only 9% of engineering roles,” remarked Dr. Amy Tanner, Founder and CEO of
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OTTAWA, Ontario (PRWEB) December 14, 2020 STACS DNA, the sample tracking solutions company, announced today that Track-Kit is the most used sexual assault kit tracking system in the world. In 2020, STACS DNA implemented Track-Kit in two more U.S. states to the five previously implemented and has already booked additional states for 2021.
In Iowa, the planned rollout of the state s Track-Kit system was completed by October 2020, despite COVID-19 delays. Iowa is the first state to introduce new Track-Kit functionality that recognizes when a mobile device is being used, allowing sexual assault nurse examiners to scan a kit s barcode using the cameras on their cell phones or tablets.