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Measuring Progress

The David & Lucille Packard Foundation just announced the winners of its 2009 Fellowship for Science and Engineering. Since we ‘re naturally inclined to look at things with a gendered […]

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Free Advice from Experts in Your Field

Are you a computing educator or industry professional who wants to recruit and retain women and underrepresented minorities in your organization?  Do you have questions about what’s the right way

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In the News

This week’s news roundup includes several interesting stories from The Chronicle of Higher Education: Harvard Offers New Doctorate for School Leaders Who Aim to Shake Up Status Quo (An academic

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Encouraging the Next Generation of Innovators

President Obama spoke to the nation’s schoolchildren today to encourage them to stay in school, study hard, and take responsibility for their education (video here, text here.) The speech itself

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Happy Friday

Happy Friday, everyone!  Here’s a little something to help you get your groove on this weekend. Like it?  Check out more NERDCORE here.  

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Women on Innovation, Women on Technical Conference Panels

As program manager for the NCWIT Entrepreneurial Alliance, I get to contact many successful and accomplished women in the tech environment. I love it: it’s highly inspiring. It’s inspiring to

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Greetings from NECC 2009!

Greetings from NECC 2009, Partner Booth 0018! NCWIT’s K-12 Alliance has produced another outstanding kit of computing resources to help educators spark interest of girls in computing, called Gotta Have

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NCWIT Symons Innovator Award

Please join us in congratulating the winner of the first annual NCWIT Symons Innovator Award, Anousheh Ansari. The NCWIT Symons Innovator Award honors an outstanding woman who has successfully grown

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Update from Washington, D.C.

Less than one month after being sworn into office, on February 17, President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.  The bill, an attempt

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CS Unplugged at the National American Indian Science and Engineering Fair

While the image of computing often brings to mind someone laboring at a computer, my career in computer science has taught me that computer science is all about ideas. AISES

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Thanks to My Tech Heroines

Today is Ada Lovelace day, the day we should acknowledge our tech heroines. So this is to all my heroines: those women who decided to create something new. Something techy

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Entrepreneur? Learn How Technology Can Improve Your Business

If you’re a budding entrepreneur or already a business-owner, now is a great time to brush up on your technology know-how and propel your business to the next level. In

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Blueprint for Tech Summer Camp

The Michigan Council of Women in Technology, using research on when most girls lose interest in technical subjects, has been running a summer technology camp for middle school girls for

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Proud to be a Winner

NOTE:NCWIT and Bank of America awarded the 2009 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing on Saturday, March 7 to 32 high-school women from across the country. Below, Kitt Vanderwater —

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Be a TechStar!

TechStars is a mentorship-driven seed stage investment program that provides early-stage technology entrepreneurs with a summer-long “boot camp” to help grow their companies. TechStars provides a small amount of funding

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Educon 2.1: What Does Reform Look Like?

After spending several days at Educon 2.1, I’m confident that though impediments exist, we can establish the education system that our nation requires and that every child deserves. What does

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Educon 2.1: Working Computational Thinking into the Equation

As I wrote in my first blog about Educon 2.1, a school reform conference with a strong technology bent, I attended a pre-conference workshop called, “Constructing Modern Math/Science Knowledge.” As

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Educon 2.1: Eye of the Tiger

From January 23-25 I attended the Educon 2.1 conference in Philadelphia, a conference — or better, a series of conversations — focused on reforming education using computing technologies. I started

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