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Know some high school women with aspirations in the computing fields? You may want to nominate them for the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award . Sponsored by Bank of America, the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing recognizes young women at the
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A bunch of my friends are at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing this week. I’m following some of it on Twitter (look for the #ghc09 tag ) and on the Grace Hopper Bloggers blog. I think this is a wonderful event and people I know who go
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Last week was NECC and boy was I ever busy. On the other hand the places on the Internet were slow in some ways and busy in others. The education Twitter space was all NECC all the time. Many education bloggers were not blogging because they were just
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So I got a number of links to links today. OK some are direct to the items but some are to pages with just too many links to copy. Wouldn’t be right. The first big set of links I found at the NCWIT blog post titled 100 Recommended Resources on Gender
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A friend forwarded the following announcement to me the other day. This is a really good resource for high school and middle school students about careers in Information Technology. It’s aimed at girls so don’t tell anyone but I am showing it to boys
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I received this announcement through Facebook the other day. If you know a girl with aspirations in computing and Information Technology tell her about this. Pass it on to your Guidance Department as well. Online applications are due December 1, 2008
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NCWIT (National Center for Women & Information Technology) is running an award program for high school women in the greater metropolitan areas of Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, and New York City Sponsored by Bank of America, the NCWIT
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One of the problems the whole field of computer science education faces is a lack of good data. Data on a lot of various subjects. Lack of data makes it hard to understand what is going on and how computer science is taught. And in fact there is a lack
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It seems fitting to talk about scary stories so soon after Halloween somehow. Yesterday I read a very interesting post by Mark Guzdial at the NCWIT Site . In it he talks about running into significant numbers of college students who are terrified of programming.
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