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Posts tagged ‘robotics’

2012.02.01   Wednesday Geek Woman: Marita Cheng, Robogals founder   (0)

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.

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2010.07.03   Antipodes robotics team   (2)

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 ...

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2010.03.01   Open thread: Robot Roll Call   (25)

This thread is open for geek feminist introductions, speculations, reminiscences and chatter. Please see our commenting policy guidelines. Conversational seed, in case you need one: in my recent sewing, software packaging, and lantern-making crafty/make-y/learn-y binge, ...

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2009.09.23   Studies show that women evolved to linkspam (23rd September 2009)   (6)

Mentoring in Open Source communities: What works, what doesn’t? by Esther Schindler over on ITWorld.com features thoughts from Red Hat’s Mel Chua, Dreamwidth’s Denise Paolucci, and Google’s Leslie Hawthorn (among others). toft has a great ...

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