[Chapter-delegates] VIDEO: CSNYC Women in Computer Science - How to get girls interested and involved

[Glenn McKnight]

Thanks  Joly for the posting

In the same vein  we are hosting  a  DIY day in Oshawa on Feb 17th open to
the public but focused on inspiring children to be creative with an
innovation zone with Linux, Audrino and Rasperry Pi demonstrations.  We wil
have 20 exhibitors providing their insights to their passion including
 science and engineering

We have partnered with the IEEE Foundation to promote engineering to
students, especialy girls who lack many of the positive role models.  Our
approach is having the  local university branch of IEEE interact with the
children and run workshops at the event.

Our key approach is that the event is free for the vendors and the  public.
    Originally we were going to strictly focus on computers and technology
but we  dropped this idea for a host of reasons including the cost issue to
use a particular technology name  The approach we are doing is Open
Education and the creativity and inspiration comes from a broad spectrum.

Here is the facebook site
https://www.facebook.com/DurhamDIYshowcase




Glenn McKnight
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skype  gmcknight
twitter gmcknight
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

>
> ISOC-NY VP Evan Korth is a co-founder, and Executive Director, of CSNYC,
> which aims to promote Computer Science education in the City's Schools.
> This was the 6th meetup, since kicking off in November 2013, with the topic
> of involving more girls in computer science studies. As you will see from
> the video, this is an actively developing area. There is plenty of
> opportunity, Representatives of  a local initiative - Girls Who Code - and,
> national - NCWIT,  spoke, after which some girl students themselves related
> their exoeriences in an informal Q&A session.
>
> Just a couple days after this event, Crain's Business News ran a feature
> on CSNYC..
>
> http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140205/TECHNOLOGY/140209942/there-are-no-computer-science-teachers-in-ny
>
>
>  Pay attention to the resources link below- there's plenty of good stuff
> there, including a tutorial on how to teach CS to people who don't even
> have computers! And good tips on how to bring girls into the field
>
>    joly posted: "On February 3 2014 New York City Foundation for Computer
> Science Education CSNYC Education Meetup hosted Women in CS - How to get
> girls interested and involved at Union Square Ventures NYC. After brief
> pitches for programs Dream it Code It Win It and Tech"
>
>    On February 3 2014 New York City Foundation for Computer Science
> Education <http://csnyc.org/> CSNYC Education Meetup hosted Women in CS -
> How to get girls interested and involved<http://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http://www.meetup.com/CSNYC-Education-Meetup/events/159223652/>at Union Square Ventures NYC. After brief pitches for programs Dream
> it Code It Win It <http://www.dreamitcodeitwinit.com/> and Technovation<http://www.technovationchallenge.org/>,
> there were presentations from *Ashley Gavin*, a Curriculum Consultant for Girls
> Who Code <http://girlswhocode.com/>, and *Ruthe Farmer*, Director of
> Strategic Initiatives, National Center for Women & Information Technology<http://www.ncwit.org/>.
> Finally there was a Q&A with a panel of NYC girl computer science students.
> Video is below.
>
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjCLAdePPWQ?rel=0>
>
> *View on YouTube*: http://youtu.be/WjCLAdePPWQ
> *Transcribe on AMARA*: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/p3jjLM4wyL0m/
> *NCWIT Resource page*: http://www.ncwit.org/resources
> *Twitter*: @csnyc <https://twitter.com/search?q=csnyc&f=realtime>
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