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Shaw was one of the co-founders of Homeward Bound, a training program for leadership for women in STEM which culminates 12 months of training with a voyage to Antarctica. [25] She was member of the onboard voyage faculty in 2016 & 2018. She drives science and leadership within the program.
Homeward Bound participants go through a twelve month training program that is focused on the topic of climate change and concludes with a three-week expedition to Antarctica. The first Homeward Bound expedition in 2016 attracted media attention as it was the largest ever all-woman expedition to Antarctica, with 76 participating scientists.
2016 – First Homeward Bound expedition, then the largest all-women expedition to Antarctica. [ 53 ] 2016–2017 – Malgorzata Wojtaczka – 52 years old Polish, after 69 days completes solo-unaided-unsupported expedition from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole.
Homeward Bound was a 10-year program designed to encourage women's participation in science and planned to send the first large (78 member) all-women expedition to Antarctica in 2016. [89] The first group, consisting of 76 women, arrived in Antarctica for three weeks in December 2016. [90]
The program isn't new — San Francisco has bussed 857 homeless people to other California counties and other states under its Homeward Bound program since 2022, according to The San Francisco ...
Almost 2 million men and women who served in Iraq or Afghanistan are flooding homeward, profoundly affected by war. Their experiences have been vivid. Dazzling in the ups, terrifying and depressing in the downs. The burning devotion of the small-unit brotherhood, the adrenaline rush of danger, the nagging fear and loneliness, the pride of service.
Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration; Homeward Bound (organization) I. ... List of Antarctic exploration ships from the Heroic Age, 1897–1922; South Polar Times;
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