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Women in Tech, Laura Eagin, WordPress Developer & Teacher
Laura Eagin is a teacher and co-organizer of Girl Develop It Detroit, a non-profit organization that brings affordable hands-on instruction to students eager to learn web development skills. By day she works as a freelance web developer and web designer for a dozen small businesses ranging from retail to real estate, tech startups, and non-profit…
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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 Tech, Interview with Deborah Wheeler, Chief Information Security Officer at Ally Financial
Deborah Wheeler is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Ally Financial. She’s in charge of establishing policy and programs to support the security of electronic customer and company information. The most difficult part of her job, but also the most rewarding, is educating employees and customers on information security and privacy — a challenge…
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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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Physics as a Gateway to a STEM Career
I have always loved science. My favorite classes throughout elementary, middle and high schools were science classes. I loved watching Cosmos and NOVA and Nature on PBS (which helped quite a bit with the science classes). The same cannot be said of math classes, which were my bane through college (see The Engineer Who Hated…
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Women in STEM Roundup – Week of April 21, 2014
Here’s the Women in STEM articles this week of April 21, 2014… Tech’s Gender Bias: What Top Female VCs Really Think (WIRED) 4 Ways Women are Digging Deeper into the Gaming Industry (What’s Your Tech.ca) Women with RAM (AdaptingIT) Mari-Louise Ross: Ode to My Mentors (Huffington Post) What It’s Like to Be a Girl Who…
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Women in STEM Roundup – Week of April 14, 2014
Here’s the Women in STEM articles this week of April 14, 2014… That Fake Science Fair Poster That Went Viral? I Made It. Here’s Why. (Huffington Post) How Technology Is Changing The Skills We Need To Learn (Innovation Excellence) HOW TO MOVE THE WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY CONVERSATION TO THE MAINSTREAM (Fast Company) Marilyn Monroe: Amateur…
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Women in STEM Roundup – Week of April 7, 2014
Here’s the Women in STEM articles this week of April 7, 2014… Mareshia Donald’s letter to her young self (Science Club for Girls) Shereen Yusuff, Senior Drilling Engineer: A Role Model for Today’s Girls (Huffington Post) Why We Need Women to Advance in Science (Huffington Post) Computer Science for Non-Majors (The Computing Community Consortium Blog)…
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Women in Tech, Interview with Kate Snyder, Principal Strategist & Owner of Piper & Gold Public Relations
Kate Snyder is the principal strategist and owner of Piper & Gold Public Relations, a boutique PR agency in Michigan. She and her team work with organizations like government agencies, nonprofits and small businesses to help them figure out how to connect with people. Technology is a huge component in this — technology allows people…
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STEM Events for Week of April 7, 2014
STEM events for Women happening this week of April 7, 2014…. Tuesday, April 8 – Saturday, April 12 2014 Surgical Education Week (Chicago, IL) Wednesday, April 9 Kick-Off for Detroit Women’s Tech Mentoring Group! (Detroit, MI) Wed 6:30 coding! (and hangout afterwards) (Ann Arbor, MI) Thursday, April 10 Fireside Chat with John Butman (Cambridge, MA)…
