Posts tagged ‘girls learning tech’

Marita Cheng is the Young Australian of the Year winner this year. In 2008, early in her undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne, she founded Robogals.

A mathematics Olympian, 1960s computer programmers, a writer who is so sick of tokenism he’d rather be erased, and more!

Win a Scholarship to National Computer Camp: GamingAngels.com and National Computer Camp (NCC) are offering a scholarship for NCC’s June/July 2011 enrollment valued at $985 to a female student (ages 8-18) for one week.
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Adelaide, Australia: 15th International Conference for Women Engineers and Scientists: The International Conference for Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES) has been held every three years since 1964 and provides an important forum for the exchange ...

Russell Coker writes about conferences designed for people on the autism spectrum. In summary NTs seem to think that Autism Spectrum Disorders are only about socialisation, not realising that for many people on the Spectrum ...

This is an amended version of a post I wrote for the CU-WISE blog (my local Women in Science and Engineering group). See below for additional comments to geek feminism readers. This Wednesday fun is ...

Melbourne, Australia: Go Girl Go for IT 2010: A free IT careers showcase for Secondary School Girls Years 8-11, Deakin University, Burwood, 27th and 28th October. Trigger warning for violent crime against women: Russell Williams ...

Team Antipodes is a team of three girls “headquartered in Pacifica, California, USA, but dedicated to collaboration with similar teams from around the globe.” They competed in the 2009 FIRST Lego League, placing third in ...

Get ready to PITCH: Women 2.0 Startup Competition: it’s open to entrants around the world, and entries close October 1. Lisa Crispin writes What Gender Diversity Means to Me: Jon Bach asked me a good ...

Valerie Aurora responds to Holla Back concerns: On the one hand, this is great news! If people are afraid of being falsely accused of street harassment, then they think it’s a bad thing. This certainly ...

Mark Pilgrim’s post Tinkerer’s Sunset laments the increasing tendency of Apple devices to be locked for development unless you have a Mac, XCode, an iPhone simulator, and $99 for an auto-expiring developer certificate. He goes ...

The Ubuntu Women team ran a competition a few months ago to gather stories documenting how women adopted the Ubuntu distribution as their computer operating system of choice. Based on the success of that competition, they ...

jesstess at Stemming wants to motivate programming for a twelve year old girl. Head on over and give her ideas. There’s discussion following on from Cath Elliott’s admiration of The Lord of the Rings in ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our commenters. In my day job, I’m the teacher librarian at an independent (private) high school in the Midwest. I’m a geek myself, but more along ...

Lucy Connor’s “Diversity at what cost?” and Benjamin Otte’s blog post on equality got me thinking about the backlash against diversity and outreach initiatives in open source. Specifically, I sometimes see arguments that inclusivity is ...

Margarita Manterola of the Debian project writes about Software Libre, Pasión de Mujeres, a free software event in Argentina where all of the speakers will be women We are all pretty WEIRD: noting that most ...