Year: 2011

NCWIT and the Woodrow Wilson Center are hosting a roundtable discussion today on “21st Century Pathways to a Skilled Technology Workforce.” This roundtable will address the critical need for increased […]

You may know about the pay gap between men and women, and maybe you know that women tend not to fare as well as men in salary negotiations. But did you

You can write code, but can you write haiku? This was the challenge presented to winners of the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing in their Facebook Group over the summer.  The

Did you know that there’s a business case for why you should include gender diversity at your startup? Inc. Magazine this week looks at research pointing to some of the

Everyone knows Google as a search engine, email client, etc. But this summer, I was part of a different side of Google – this year’s Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI).

Did you know that a prominent article about Carol Bartz’s firing from her role as CEO of Yahoo last week also mentions that she was a “high-school homecoming queen” and a “mother

Kimberly A. is a recipient of the 2010-11 North Carolina Award for Aspirations in Computing. She is a senior and plans to study computer programming and chemical engineering in college. Samantha

  Did you know that recent research on sex hormones has found that these hormones may have a strong influence on occupational choices? Penn State researchers compared teenagers with congenital

This summer my sister and I ran an Alice workshop for middle school girls at a local college. We decided to have it at a college because we believed it would