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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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

I want to thank all the people that presented and attended the recent NCWIT/BPC K-12 Outreach Workshop in Washington, D.C. this month. From what I hear and what I saw,

I just attended the May Meetings of the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT). NCWIT is now five years old. The organization has two main goals: to increase

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

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

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

This is a piece Lucy Sanders guest-posted over at Ask the VC. Q: When evaluating a start-up by a mompreneur (or, to go broader, female first-timer), what do you typically

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

Today, March 24, is Ada Lovelace Day. Who is Ada Lovelace, you ask, and why does she have a day named after her? Well, it begin with this: Women’s contributions

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

NOTE:NCWIT and Bank of America awarded the 2009 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing on Saturday, March 7th, to 32 high-school women from across the country. Elisabeth Morant won her

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

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 —

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

On this day, 63 years ago, the world was introduced to the first digital, electronic computer. ENIAC – which stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer – was the world’s

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

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

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

I was fortunate enough to attend the 44th Presidential Inauguration last week in Washington, D.C. As our new president was speaking and the excitement of the crowd grew, it struck