D2BD is designed to open the eyes of Young Women (7th grade to 10th grade) to the pervasiveness of computing technologies in their everyday lives and to the wide spectrum of exciting and creative careers that leverage an education in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Interesting Article

The Washington Post has an article that mentions Microsoft's DigiGirlz.

The comments contain one disheartening entry

Having spent 40 years in high-tech fields from radar systems to financial systema and everything in between, not many girls have that much interest in tech as a career. At least none of my girls nor their girlfriends did. The motivation is just simply not there.
and one good one regarding CMU's Alice:

Caitlin Kelleher, a graduate student at CMU who had Dr. Randy Pausch as her thesis adviser states, "As my thesis work, I created and evaluated a programming system for middle school girls called Storytelling Alice that presents programming as a means to the end of storytelling,"

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