On Thursday, March 14th, 2013 (better known as “Pi day”) Professor Mihaela Sabin and Michael Jonas will be holding two workshops at Girls Technology Day. The event is being held for the first time, and will be taking place at the New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord. Over 200 girls, grades 8-10, are expected to participate in the event. Catherine Blake, Lecturer in Marketing from the University of New Hampshire who received her M.B.A from Harvard University, will be the keynote speaker. The event will host ten workshops, of which the girls can choose four (including Cybersecurity, VEX Robotics, Careers in Technolgy Round Table, Cisco VoIP Lab, Making Ethernet Cables 101, and more) to experience first-hand what it is like to use a variety of different technologies in computing and engineering.
Students participating in Sabin and Jonas’s workshops can look forward to programming a multiplayer board game in the Greenfoot interactive Java development environment, and creating their own mobile apps for the Android operating system.
Visit NHTI to Host “Girls Technology Day” for more information.
Ah, this is going to be an awesome workshop, hope to hear also just for the boys.. Any updates?
Nhick, the workshop is for girls because of the low percentage of women in the computing field. Right now I think you’ll find that a lot of workshops and other techie gatherings end up with almost nothing but boys simply because it’s statistically likely in this field, but that’s something we’re hoping to change by showing girls just how great this industry really is!
Good luck with your workshop, hope you’ll attract more women in the computing field.. keep us posted Melissa.
Nhick
Hey Melissa,
Looking forward to it. What time do we need to be there for?
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