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For a long time I have been concerned about the small number of women in the computer field. The number has actually gone down since the days when I was an undergraduate student. Given the talented women in computer science who I have worked with over
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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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I spent yesterday at a large STEM event in Denver Colorado. Something like 1,500 middle school girls were brought to the Colorado Convention center for workshops and talks about science, technology and engineering. My colleague Hilary Pike conducted several
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I received this from the event organizers who asked me to pass it along. Looks like a good event. I think I’m going to try and make it myself. Are you from NH, VT, MA or RI, and are you working to get more girls involved with science, engineering, technology
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Something for middle school science classes perhaps: The Siemens Foundation, Discovery Education and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) have partnered on this unprecedented initiative to educate, empower and engage students, teachers and
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It’s a amazing the teaching aids one can find on the Internet these days. How about a short video including a demo on each of the elements in the periodic table? Yep, there it is! The University of Nottingham has created a periodic table of videos that
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Bill Gates testified before Congress last week ( transcript here ). Most of the news reports focused on his calling for more H1B visas and left out some of what I think are the more important things he said. First among those is that we need to improve
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The word "evangelist" is showing up in job titles more and more these days. But what is a job like that all about? I tend to describe it as being in the "making friends and influencing people" business. But that is just my perspective. Recently Channel
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The DigiGirlz Days schedule is out (actually I got a sneak peak - thanks Diane ) and there are more of them in more places than ever before. What is a DigiGirlz Day ? During the event, students interact with Microsoft employees and managers to gain exposure
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Chris Stephenson is the director of the Computer Science Teacher Association and recently her Advisory Council put some interesting questions to her: " What would CSTA do if it had unlimited financial resources? What projects would it undertake that would
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The Global Challenge is an interesting competition for high school students. From the website: In the Global Challenge , teams of US high school students collaborate with international counterparts from October to May to address global climate change
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NCWIT ( National Center for Women & Information Technology ) has created a resource for helping to help people in the Information Technology field to introduce middle-school students to the field of computing. It is now available online. Are you ready
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If you are in Massachusetts and interested in improving STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education you will want to be aware of the fourth annual STEM summit being held this October. Registration is now open. I have attended the last several
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