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13-Year-Old Shani Zuniga Designs Energy Saving Home Climate App #WomenInSTEM
Who says you have to be an adult to invent something useful? 13-year-old Shani Zuniga, together with her father, Gabi, and their neighbor Danny Eizips have created a cloud-controlled home heating and cooling device called Ventix. Unlike Nest, which controls the overall climate in the entire house, the Arduino-based Ventix can be used to control…
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Learn Science: Why Do We Get Brain Freezes?
Ever wonder why you sometimes get a headache, or “brain freeze” after eating ice cream or other cold foods? Maddie Moate reveals the science behind brain freezes:
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Black Girls Code Receives $50k TechCrunch Include Grant
Black Girls Code, whose mission is to increase the number of women of color in STEM fields by empowering girls to become innovators, leaders and builders of their own futures, is the recipient of the first TechCrunch Include Grant of $50,000. By reaching out girls through workshops, summer camps and after school programs, Black Girls Code…
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Broadcom Foundation Launches Series of Interactive STEM events at Computer History Museum
Partnering with the Computer History Museum and major corporations in Silicon Valley, Broadcom Foundation will introduce middle school students to basic concepts involving coding, such as logic, structure, space and change. Students in Broadcom Presents Design_Code_Build will gain hands-on experience through activities like programming Raspberry Pi, which uses a Broadcom system-on-a-chip, to navigate a maze.…
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US Patent & Trademark Office Launches Website to Encourage STEM in School
Innovation is clearly vital to the success of the US Patent and Trademark Office. The USPTO recently launched USPTO KIDS!, which includes games, coloring pages, audio and video, to encourage students of all ages in the inventive thinking process. Students will get to explore profiles of students their own age such as Marissa Streng, who…
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Physics Girl Interviews Emily Calandrelli about The Vomit Comet #WomenInSTEM
Ever wonder what NASA’s Vomit Comet is like? Wonder what microgravity feels like? Physics Girl interviews Emily Calandrelli who is the host and co-producer of FOX’s Xploration Outer Space. She’s a graduate from MIT and WVU with degrees in aeronautics, astronautics, technology and policy. Follow Physics Girl on YouTube and Emily at her website. Learn…
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2020 Girls — Introducing Girls to the Thrills of Science, Design, Engineering & Tech
There is no doubt that there is a need for professionals in the STEM fields in this country, especially women. ITEC in Lansing, in partnership with MCWT, is jump-starting girls’ interest in STEM with their 2020 Girls program, launched just this year. About 100 middle school girls are participating in programming, engineering and design activities…
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Women in STEM Roundup – Week of May 26, 2014
Here’s the Women in STEM articles this week of May 26, 2014… Google to release diversity data about workforce (Washington Post) This Woman Proves You Don’t Have to Be A Hoodie-Wearing Male to Make It in Today’s Tech World (Nation Swell) ‘Our Job Is To Solve Problems’: How STEM Jobs Can Take Women To The…
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Women in STEM Roundup – Week of May 19, 2014
Here’s the Women in STEM articles this week of May 19, 2014… Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding (NYTimes) The Tech Sector Needs More Women; Here’s How You Can Make It Happen (Forbes) Girl Scouts target math, science gender gap (Delaware Online) The “CSI Effect:” Cacking the Case of the STEM Skills Gap (Huffington Post)…
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STEM Events for Week of May 19, 2014
STEM events for Women happening this week of May 19, 2014… Saturday May 17 – Tuesday May 20 American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery — Association of Women Surgeons (Hollywood, FL) Monday May 19 How to Build a Website: HTML & CSS for Beginners (2-Day Workshop) — Girl Develop It Detroit (Detroit, MI) Monday May…
