Anna Ewing, the moderator of the panel discussion at the NYSCI event, asks the panel members about the challenges women entrepreneurs face in getting funding for their businesses. The panel members discuss the issues of gaining access to capital, systemic issues around diversity, and the need for big capital. There is also talk of hopeful signs such as the development of alternative sources of funding for women entrepreneurs.
The New York Hall of Science
The New York Hall of Science, also known as NYSCI, is a science museum located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens. NYSCI was founded at the 1964–65 World’s Fair and has evolved into New York’s center for interactive science, serving a half million students, teachers, and families each year. NYSCI serves schools, families and underserved communities in the New York City area, offering informal, hands-on learning through various products and services that use the “design-make-play” method of bringing delight and play to educating Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).
