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

[Michael Burks]

All,

unless I missed it, and I well could have, there are no captions on the
video...

Michael Burks
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> mcknight.glenn at gmail.com
> skype  gmcknight
> twitter gmcknight
> .
>
>
> 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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