Women in STEM Roundup – Week of May 12, 2014

Here’s the Women in STEM articles this week of May 12, 2014…

• Changing the “Women in Tech” Conversation (<re/code>)
• Philly Tech Week’s Feminine Side (NBC Philadelphia)
• STUDY SHOWS GIRLSTART AFTER SCHOOL STUDENTS PERFORM BETTER ACADEMICALLY THAN PEERS (girlstart)
• Cracking the code: Push to teach computer science in classrooms (CBS News)
• Gender & Race Differences in NonAcademic Careers for STEM Ph.D.s (Women in Astronomy)
• Program shows girls economic opportunity of STEM education (California Economic Summit)
• Career Profiles: Astronomer to Soft Money Researcher (Women in Astronomy)
• Anne Roest appointed new city commissioner of the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (NY Daily News)
• Women in tech: Packed forum takes on 4 big questions (Geek Wire)
• Hackathon models that draw in women (Computing Education Blog)
• 9 Ways Women’s Lives Have Changed For The Better Since 2005 (Huffington Post)
• Collaboration Strengthens Programs and Lowers Costs for Institutions of Higher Learning (Huffington Post)
• How Internet Trolls Improved My Self Esteem (Skepchick)
• New LaunchCode division — Coder Girl — aims to train women programmers (St. Louis Business Journal)
• We Went To TechCrunch Disrupt And Asked People How To Fix The Tech Industry (BuzzFeed)
• Encouraging STEM to Promote Women in Technology (MasterCard)
• How One CEO Is Bringing More Women And Minority Owned Tech Companies To Silicon Valley (Chicago Defender)
• Code Like A Mom (NCWIT)
• The personal cost of applying for research grants (Computing Education Blog)
• Meet a STEM Crew Counselor (GirlStart)
• Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal (Time)

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