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<title><![CDATA[National Center for Women &amp; Information Technology]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Revolutionizing the face of information technology by ensuring the
participation of women.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org]]></link><item><title><![CDATA[Girl Empowerment and Mentoring (GEM)]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=523]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the second in a series of blogs contributed by winners of the NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund, a Microsoft-funded initiative that awards up to $15,000 to innovative programs that recruit and retain women students in post-secondary computing departments. Read more about the Seed Fund here.Greetings from the 2nd-annual...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=523]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harnessing Hacking: Inspiring Girls to get Creative with Computing]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The term &amp;ldquo;hacking&amp;rdquo; has, over time, had many different interpretations. Most recently, it has been associated with an emerging movement of creative technological design celebrating ingenuity, appropriation, and repurposing, a blend of hardware and software design practices that adopt and adapt systems and components to new ends their originators might...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=524]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Update from The Stern Group, Opening Doors in Washington, D.C.]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=521]]></link><description><![CDATA[NCWIT recognizes the importance of establishing a strong presence among legislators and policy-makers in Washington, D.C., and we strive to keep key decision-makers apprised of the issues surrounding diversity and innovation. We do this with the help of The Stern Group, an international advisory firm led by the Honorable Paula...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=521]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 3 Feb 2010 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jump on the Bandwagon]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we launched our funding campaign for computer science education reform in D.C. about 10 days ago, the news has been filled with stories about our campaign themes: computer science education, the increasing need for skilled technology professionals, computing's pervasive influence on other career fields, and the potential for underrepresented...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=518]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the Classroom to the Boardroom to the Halls of Congress]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since its inception in 2004, NCWIT has successfully attracted the support of corporations, foundations, and the government to help it achieve its mission of increasing women's participation in IT. &amp;nbsp;In part it's because these organizations recognize the importance of diversity in computer science and IT; and in part it's because...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=517]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UIUC Gaming Contest for Women!]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The University of Illinois department of computer science is hosting aninternational video game development competition, designed specifically foraspiring female video game developers. &amp;nbsp;The Games4Girls contest invitesteams of college-aged women to develop video games for their high schoolcounterparts.The competition enables aspiring female game developers to get real-worldcollaborative experience in software game...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=512]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recruitment Works: A Success Story]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every organization, whether for- or non-profit, lives for the success story: the testimonial from a happy client or customer served that tells you in first-hand terms how effective and influential your organization has been. In rare cases, you might hear that you've been integral in helping a person make significant...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=510]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Navy]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=509]]></link><description><![CDATA[In honor of this Veteran's Day, here's a post about women and IT in the Navy.&amp;nbsp; We are grateful to all the men and women who protect and serve our country.We humans are rarely as consistent as we would like to believe we are. I am noexception: I protest wars...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=509]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have You Considered Becoming an Entrepreneur?]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 2009 Grace Hopper Celebration ofWomen and Computing last month in Tucson, Arizona, was a great place to get the real pulse of women incomputing, and to meet other women involved in computer science. The theme of the 2009 celebration was &quot;creating technology for social good,&quot;&amp;nbsp; and NCWIT hosted a...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=508]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boulder Event: Women,Technology, Vehicles, and Carbon Footprints]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Join Clean Energy Action's November &quot;Global WarmingSolutions&quot; speaker series. Kathryn Miles, Chief Technology Officer forEEtex, Inc., will discuss vehicle contributions to our carbon footprint and newtechnologies to reduce global warming gases. Engage in discussions of&amp;nbsp; solutions involving integrating vehicles withthe grid, electrical energy storage, and transportation emissions reductions.Hear reflections on...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=507]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Measuring Progress]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The David &amp;amp; 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 lens, we were curious about the nature of this list and did a little poking around.Of the 16 winners, it...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=503]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free Advice from Experts in Your Field]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you a computing educator or industry professional who wants to recruit and retain women and underrepresented minorities in your organization?&amp;nbsp; Do you have questions about what's the right way to do it?&amp;nbsp; Would you like to discuss your plans and programs one-on-onewith an expert social scientist?NCWIT manages a FREE...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=498]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the News]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=495]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 PhD program for wanna-be change-leaders)Diversity Increases at Public Historically Black Colleges (HBCUs are attracting students of diverse backgrounds)College Enrollments Will Be...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=495]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Encouraging the Next Generation of Innovators]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=491]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 was a highly debated act of outreach/&quot;indoctrination&quot; that elicited strong feelings from many, especially those concerned with K-12 education. But regardless...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=491]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy Friday]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy Friday, everyone!&amp;nbsp; Here's a little something to help you get your groove on this weekend.Like it?&amp;nbsp; Check out more NERDCORE here.]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=490]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 4 Sep 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women on Innovation, Women on Technical Conference Panels]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=482]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 hear their stories, learnabout their challenges, see how they choose to overcome them, and know that, as time goes by, more...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=482]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greetings from NECC 2009!]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greetings from NECC 2009, Partner Booth 0018!NCWIT&amp;rsquo;s K-12 Alliance has produced another outstanding kit of computing resources to help educators spark interest of girls in computing, called Gotta Have IT, and Monday was our first day distributing them at NECC.&amp;nbsp; For 2009, we have a special bonus:&amp;nbsp; ISTE will host...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=476]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[BPC/NCWIT K-12 Outreach Workshop]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=475]]></link><description><![CDATA[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, it was a smashing success. BPC and NCWIT are working hard to get good programs to &quot;where the students are,&quot; and I...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=475]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Update from the NCWIT Meetings]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=465]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 the number of girls andwomen in computing and to make diversity in computing matter toindividuals, organizations, and society.The meeting had some wonderful...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=465]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NCWIT Symons Innovator Award]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=464]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 and funded an IT business.&amp;nbsp;This new Award,&amp;nbsp; created by the NCWIT Entrepreneurial Alliance, was designed to honor and promote women in IT entrepreneurship.&amp;nbsp;...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=464]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 8 May 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Update from Washington, D.C.]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=461]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.&amp;nbsp; The bill, an attempt at bipartisanship with mixed results, intends to boost the lagging U.S. economy, create sustainable economic growth, and give the American...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=461]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CS Unplugged at the National American Indian Science and Engineering Fair]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=458]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 (American Indian Science and Engineering Society) has been holding its science and engineering fair, NAISEF, for 20 years.&amp;nbsp; NAISEF provides an...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=458]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 7 Apr 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Advice Would You Give Mompreneurs?]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=456]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 see as the weakest link (in supprting roles, research, presentation, concept, etc.)? With respect to this, if you could give mompreneurs...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=456]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks to My Tech Heroines]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=454]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 and new! Those who found their calling and passion in innovation and feel their lives won't be complete without it. Those...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=454]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ada Lovelace Day: Recognizing Women in IT]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=453]]></link><description><![CDATA[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&amp;rsquo;s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovationsseldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tellthe world about these unsung heroines. Entrepreneurs, innovators,sysadmins,...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=453]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneur? Learn How Technology Can Improve Your Business]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=452]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 partnership with The New York Times Knowledge Network, the Women's Entrepreneurship Institute at Northern Kentucky University is offering a series of courses...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=452]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blueprint for Tech Summer Camp]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=449]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 five years now.The goals of Camp Infinity are to solve these three key issues:confidence and capability coolness (overcome negative &quot;geek&quot;...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=449]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go For It! One NCWIT Award Winner Tells Why]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=417]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing at the Bank of America Celebrating Stars of the Future Technology Showcase and Awards...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=417]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proud to be a Winner]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=422]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 -- who was a winner of the August 2008 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing -- writes about her thoughts on...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=422]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be a TechStar!]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=445]]></link><description><![CDATA[TechStars is a mentorship-driven seedstage investment program that provides early-stagetechnology entrepreneurs with a summer-long &quot;boot camp&quot; to help grow their companies.TechStars provides a small amount of funding ($12,000-$18,000) for the summer,but the program is really all about focused and intensive mentorship. For threemonths, our&amp;nbsp;amazing mentors&amp;nbsp;likeNCWIT's own&amp;nbsp;LucySanders&amp;nbsp;work directly with the companies...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=445]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The History of Women in Computing]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=442]]></link><description><![CDATA[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&amp;rsquo;sfirst operational, general-purpose, digital computer, and it was developed at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University ofPennsylvania. The...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=442]]></guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Educon 2.1: What Does Reform Look Like?]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=441]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 this have to do with computing? Imagine a day when teachers find room in the curriculum to present new learning opportunities,...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=441]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Educon 2.1: Working Computational Thinking into the Equation]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=440]]></link><description><![CDATA[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, &quot;Constructing Modern Math/Science Knowledge.&quot; As an educator with a strong constructivist bent I was eager to hear Gary Stager, Brian Silverman (Picocrickets), Carolyn Staudt (Molecular...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=440]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Educon 2.1: Eye of the Tiger]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=437]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 my first day by enjoying a frosty jog with Caitlin, a newly-minted algebra and geometry teacher who teaches at Science Leadership...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=437]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Power of Technology in Action]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=432]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 me how well the Obama campaign has used technology to bring about this momentous occasion.I was overseas for much...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=432]]></guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Obama: Geek-in-Chief]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome, President Obama!We congratulate you on your historic path to the presidency, and we're excited for you to lead our country into a new era of increased prosperity, strength, peace, wisdom, community, and yes: change.A recent article in The New York Times speculatedthat with you occupying our highest office, our...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=431]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tools for Role Modeling]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=419]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love your mission: how can I get involved? This is one of the most frequent questions asked of NCWIT by K-12 educators and IT professionals alike. A great way to get involved is to mentor a young, aspiring, female technologist who would benefit from your expertise and wisdom.For those...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=419]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[New book on women robots, androids, and game avatars]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=424]]></link><description><![CDATA[My new book, Alluring Androids, Robot Women, and Electronic Eves,&amp;nbsp; highlights the way software designers,&amp;nbsp; robotics engineers, filmmakers, artists, and photographers&amp;nbsp; have been&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;fascinated by the idea of artificial&amp;nbsp; women who seem alive. The&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;illustrations -- many in color -- range from&amp;nbsp; early clockwork female automatons to Lara Croft and The Stepford...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=424]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[PITCH 2009: Startup Competition]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you have a great idea for a startup? If you've saved that business plan you've scribbled on a cocktail napkin, then you should consider entering Women 2.0's Pitch 2009 Startup Competition!Women 2.0's goal is to encourage entrepreneurial women to launch startups and, with feedback from the judging panel of...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=420]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Graduate Studies at the MIT Media Lab]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interested in Creative, Cutting-Edge, Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies?If you are thinking about going to graduate school, passionate about helping people, and interested in shaping the future of technology, consider applying to the MIT Media Lab. The Media Lab has one of the best graduate programs in the country, one that offers...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=415]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 5 Dec 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[100 Recommended Resources on Gender in S&amp;E]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=414]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you use Google, or a large database, to find things, you have to decide: &amp;ldquo;Is it any good?&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;I have collected about 100 recommended resources on women in science and engineering and posted them at http://momox.org/10x10.html. I call it the &amp;ldquo;10 x 10 List.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp; The list is organized in chunks,...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=414]]></guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[2009 Games 4 Girls Competition]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=410]]></link><description><![CDATA[ChicTech, an outreach program of the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science, extends an open invitation for college women to participate in the fifth annual Games 4 Girls Programming Competition (G4G). Students can get real-world, collaborative experience by creating new software for girl gamers. &amp;nbsp;Teams&amp;nbsp;from various universities will compete...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=410]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[California Dreamin',  Reflections on the NCWIT Workshop at UC Irvine Nov 5-7, 08]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding the NCWIT Fall workshop just on the tail end of the presidential election made for a high energy event, and the focus on &quot;Multiple Pathways to an IT Career&quot; fits right in with the spirit of change in the air.  The event kicked off Wednesday night with a...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=409]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[&quot;Is the United States Falling Behind Science and Technology or Not&quot;]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Report on a Washington Forum Sponsored by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)On September 10th 2008, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation held a forum in Washington D.C. to address concerns that the U.S. is losing its position as a global leader in science and technology. The president of...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=402]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[iPhone Appilcations Widen Computer Science Opportunities]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=401]]></link><description><![CDATA[These days, iPhone applications are rolling out as quickly as the latest karaoke video posted on YouTube. Both amateurs and seasoned software developers are cashing in.Standford University Standford University offers iPhone Application Programming as a computer science course this fall. There are over 80 students registered, according to the Standford...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=401]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CONNECT at Grace Hopper]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking for a fun way to improve and expand your personal and career networks?&amp;nbsp; If you're planning to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, October 1-4 in Keystone, Colorado, then make sure to sign up for CONNECT.&amp;nbsp; This is an innovative new system that allows you to...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=396]]></guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Next Level of Technology]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=393]]></link><description><![CDATA[For those of you who don't read the comics anymore, you missed a rather brilliant insight in the comic strip called &quot;Zits&quot; today.&amp;nbsp;&quot;Zits&quot; sketches the life of a teenager named Jeremy, his friends, and his parents.&amp;nbsp; It chronicles Jeremy's crushes, sleep habits, prolific food consumption, apathy for household chores, and...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=393]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do You Know a Women-led Company Seeking Funding?]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=387]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are venture conferences, and then there&amp;rsquo;s it. As the seventh-annualconference dedicated to high-growth, women-led start-ups, you might think  it isabout a cause. But you&amp;rsquo;d be wrong.it isabout results:Over$425 million raisedFundingsuccess rate exceeding 60 percent10exits to date, including 2 IPOsit is designed for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs who understand the...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=387]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advanced Computer Science for K-12]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=383]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my reading,&amp;nbsp; I have learned that many women do not take more advanced computer science classes in high school because they are not counted academically when competing for college admissions slots.&amp;nbsp; Typically computer science courses, such as programming, are labeled as elective or technical art courses, which have no...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=383]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 6 Aug 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Faculty Summit]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last week I and a number of other representatives from NCWIT member organizations attended the 2008 Microsoft Faculty Summit, at the invitation of our host and NCWIT Executive Advisory Council member, Rick Rashid of Microsoft Research.&amp;nbsp; It was also great fun to see everybody, I learned a lot, and my...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=386]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NCWIT now on Facebook]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=382]]></link><description><![CDATA[NCWIT has officially entered the world of social networking with our official NCWIT Supporters Facebook Group.&amp;nbsp; We encourage you to join.&amp;nbsp; Just search &quot;NCWIT&quot; within groups.&amp;nbsp; The group is open and membership is not restricted. As always, important information will always be available on the NCWIT website, but the Facebook...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=382]]></guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[BlogHer 08 Conference]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=381]]></link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Do you blog too?&quot;That is what a man asked me, as I hopped on the elevator to join the hundreds (felt like thousands) of other female bloggers for our first day of talks at the Westin-St. Francis hotel in San Francisco. Somehow, between the munching, swag-grabbing, shopping at Macys, and...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=381]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talking Points &amp; the Wisdom of Crowds]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=376]]></link><description><![CDATA[During the last week of June, thousands of educators, administrators, andpolicy-makers poured into San Antonio, Texas for the ISTE&amp;rsquo;s NationalEducational Computing Conference (NECC). I made the trek to represent NCWIT andintroduce the first resource in our new &amp;ldquo;Talking Points&quot; Series &amp;ndash; a resourcefor parents and educators who wish to talk...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=376]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 9 Jul 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avon Micro-Grants Available for New K-12 Outreach Programs]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=374]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't always read my Systers mail. It accumulates in a mailbox until I have the time to indulge myself in its wealth of information, insights, encouragement and opportunities for women, about women, by women.During one such binge a year ago, I came across a brief post announcing a new...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=374]]></guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex and the City]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=372]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few of us from NCWIT were in New York City the last week in May to attend a much-anticipated premiere ... no, not the &quot;Sex and the City&quot; movie, but the release of The Athena Factor: Reversing the Brain Drain in Science, Engineering, &amp;amp; Technology. The report, published by...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=372]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflections on the May meetings]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having been out of the fray for a bit (I am currently at Oxford completing an MBA) it was exhilarating to return to the U.S. for the NCWIT meetings at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana last week.  The meeting kicked off with a keynote address by former astronaut and...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=366]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unplug Your Computer Science Curriculum!]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=355]]></link><description><![CDATA[NCWIT has added another Program-in-a-Box to our resource library: Computer Science-in-a-Box: Unplug Your Curriculum.  This box introducesfundamental building blocks of computer science to K-12 students -- without usingcomputers! Computer Science-in-a-Box is designed primarily for use withkids ages 9 to 14, and its activities teach students how computers work by...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=355]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech It Out Needs Your Input]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) is embarking on a critical research project to measure the perceptions of career opportunities for women in technology, and to collect insights on women&amp;rsquo;s experiences, motivators, and career preferences in technology and potentially the cable industry.If you are a woman working in a technical field...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=339]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Game Design Summer Camp for Rising 9th and 10th Graders]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=338]]></link><description><![CDATA[&amp;nbsp;Thanks to a genourous grant from the National Science Foundation and support from Electronic Arts, P4Games at the Univeristy of Denver invites applications from girls going into 9th and 10th grades for full scholarships to attend our residential summer Game Design Camp.From July 6-18. students can experience living on a...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=338]]></guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=332]]></link><description><![CDATA[BusinessWeek has a special report out now on the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech. The report includes several features that look at groups of young technology innovators: Twentysomething Entrepreneurs, Tech's Next Gen: the Best and Brightest, Under-30, Cutting Edge, and Academia's Brightest Stars.Guess what?&amp;nbsp; Of the more than 45 young...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=332]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anita Borg Awards: Call for Nominations]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) is now accepting nominations for three of its awards: the Anita Borg Social Impact Award; the Anita Borg Award for Technical Leadership;and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award.  The awards will be bestowed at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=327]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[An interview with Sharon Perl, Software Engineer at Google]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=322]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the second of two interviews that Ginger Makela conducted with women technologists at Google. Ginger is a Social Media Specialist at Google and serves as NCWIT's pro-bono web strategist.&amp;nbsp;Tellme what you do for Google.I'm a software engineer -- that's mygeneral title. I've always worked in the systems and...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=322]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Interview with Lea Kissner, Software Engineer at Google]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fewer and fewer women are joining the ITfield these days -- the official statistic is that there's been a 70 percent declinein the number of undergraduate women choosing to major in Computer Sciencebetween 2000 and 2005 -- and NCWIT is working to understand why that is andreverse the downward trend....]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=321]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 1 Apr 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[&quot;Geek Girls&quot; Dining Out for International Women's Day]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just in time for this year's International Women's Day, a new support group for women in IT was established in Australia. An article from  iTnews reported on this group, called Girl Geek Dinners. &quot;Providing a group that shows you are part of a growing part ofyour industry encourages people...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=318]]></guid><pubDate>Sat, 8 Mar 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[International Women's Day: Women are a Smart Investment]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=317]]></link><description><![CDATA[International Women's Day is today, and organizations in all parts of the world are celebrating in their own unique way. Trinidad and Tobago's local theme is &quot;Investing in Women and Girls,&quot; according to the  Trinidad &amp;amp; Tobago Express. This theme recognizes the value of an increased amount of girls...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=317]]></guid><pubDate>Sat, 8 Mar 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[International Women's Day-in-a-Box!]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is your organization looking for IT leadership and innovation? Are women playing a key role in shaping your company's future? Is your company making the most of diversity? Are you building on and benefiting from diverse perspectives? Companies striving to answer these questions now have an all-in-one resource at...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=315]]></guid><pubDate>Sat, 8 Mar 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[International Women's Day Around the World]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=314]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's International Women's Day tomorrow, March 8. All this week individuals and organizations around the globe havebeen celebrating the contributions of women and using this occasion tofocus on improving conditions for women in social, economic, andpolitical realms.  NCWIT is officially celebrating International Women's Day this yearfor the first time....]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=314]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 7 Mar 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace Hopper: Call for Participation Ends March 16]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very excited that the next Grace Hopper Celebration in Computing (GHC) will take place right here in Colorado, October 1-4, at theKeystone Resort. If anything beats the beauty of Rocky Mountain aspensturning gold in the fall, it's the sight of 1,200+ women gatheredtogether to celebrate their love of technology....]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=316]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Anniversary of ENIAC]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=299]]></link><description><![CDATA[On February 14, 1946, ENIAC  the world's first digital electronic computer  was unveiled. ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.  It was the world's first operational, general-purpose, electronic digital computer, developed at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. The ENIAC and...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=299]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CS Majors Shaping the Future of Textbooks]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you a computer science major?  Your opinions are in demand. Pearson, one of the leading education publishers, is seeking participants to serve on its Pearson Student Advisory Board (PSAB).  This is an incredible professional opportunity for undergrads to earn a $1,000 stipend, travel to Boston and other...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=295]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[TechStars: Calling All Women Entrepreneurs]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=293]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few years ago I graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a major in English Lit.  When I tell people I now work in the tech industry (and have started several successful businesses since graduation), they're often flabbergasted.  Earlier this morning a fellow female entrepreneur asked me if women...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=293]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[the Google 2008 Anita Borg Scholarship]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you a senior undergrad or a graduate student studying computer science? Are you passionate about your work, and using computing to make the world a better place?  How about a $10,000 scholarship from Google to encourage you?The Google 2008 Anita Borg Scholarship is designed to encourage women to...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=291]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChicTech's Games for Girls Competition: Enter Now!]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=288]]></link><description><![CDATA[ChicTech, an outreach program of the University of Illinois' Department of Computer Science, extends an open invitation for college women to participate in the third annual Games for Girls Programming Competition (G4G).  Registration must be submitted by January 31, 2008, at http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/g4g. Completed projects are due by April 9,...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=288]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Women Who Shun IT Really Think about IT]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=283]]></link><description><![CDATA[I caught up on some reading over the holidays. In particular, [begin link /who.staff.joanne.html]Joanne Cohoon[end link] sent me an article entitled &quot;[begin link /pdf/Weinberger_IEEE.pdf]Just Ask! Why Surveyed Women Did Not Pursue IT Courses or Careers[end link]&quot;, by Catherine J. Weinberger. Although published in the Spring 2004 issue of the IEEE...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=283]]></guid><pubDate>Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Second Life]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=281]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if I didn't already have enough to do in my First Life, I logged on for a Second Life.  Second Life (SL) is &quot;a 3-D virtual world entirely created by its Residents.&quot;  It's an unusually calm winter evening when I log on for the first time. Husband...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=281]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The State of Social Science Research on Gender and IT Entrepreneurship]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=277]]></link><description><![CDATA[This brief paper concludes the Gender and IT Entrepreneurship project that we conducted for NCWIT with support from the Kauffman Foundation. In this final paper, we present a high-level overview of our four summaries of social science scholarship on women's underrepresentation and the conditions that promote women's success as IT...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=277]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 5 Dec 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indirect Influence]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=268]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother always knew that the most effective way to get me to do something was not to force me. Commands like, &quot;Clean your room,&quot; were never spoken. Instead, she made a challenge or a game out of any timeless chore. I had forgotten all about this indirect tactic until...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=268]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The &quot;Truthiness&quot; about Math and Science]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of you may have seen the article in today's NY Times, &quot;Study Compares States' Math and Science Scores With Other Countries'&quot;, about a recent research report that compares 8th graders' math and science prowess in the 50 U.S. states against that of 8th graders in other countries.  The...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=267]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computing and the Letter P]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=262]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007 conference recently, and hats off to the Anita Borg Institute for doing such a super job of running the conference -- it was a phenomenal event. (I was general chair of the conference, so I might be biased!)...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=262]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generation Q]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thomas Friedman had an interesting piece in last week's NY Times about &quot;Generation Q&quot;  the generation of young people today whom he calls The Quiet Americans  and why they both impress and baffle him. Friedman explains that this is a generation imbued with an improbable sense of optimism...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=258]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emerging Technologies and the Emergence of Women]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent Tuesday and Wednesday last week at EmTech '07 -- the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT -- a conference produced by Technology Review. The conference included an extraordinary number of interesting women, including the CTO of Xerox, and I was pleased to be a presenter at the event.This year...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=250]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 3 Oct 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sowing the Seeds of Future Innovation]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is the U.S. ceding its position as the most innovative country on the globe?To the degree that innovation depends on a domestic population that is well educated in innovation's building blocks  computer science and information technology  then the answer is yes.  Interest in studying these fields has...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=241]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digital Art Culture]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an experimental multimedia artist, student, and teacher living in Denver, CO.  My latest artistic pursuits are a combination of various mediums including still image, video, sound, sculpture, light, and performance.  Most recently I have been collaborating with another female artist, Heidi Higginbottom, to choreograph audio/visual performances...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=236]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 4 Sep 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asking Provocative Questions]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last week Ben Worthen, who writes the Wall Street Journal's Business Technology blog, posted a provocatively titled piece called, &quot;Do Women Hate IT?&quot;  NCWIT provided some statistics and a few quotes for his post, which he ended with the question, &quot;Why do you think women aren't pursuing IT careers?&quot;Well,...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=235]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech Support for Family Members]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earlier this month my husband and I packed up ourselves and our sons and headed off to Texas: first to Dallas, and then a long drive over to east Texas, where my folks live.  We know what is in store for us -- aside from seeing family, eating, playing...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=224]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kicking Off the Diversity &amp; Innovation Caucus]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=223]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a new U.S. House of Representatives Caucus focused on Diversity and Innovation, something we are quite happy about.  In fact, NCWIT had a hand in its formation.  Back in May 2006, along with the National Science Foundation (NSF), we co-hosted a Town Hall on Innovation and...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=223]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Noob, and Other Words Worth Thinking About]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=221]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a recent Sunday, I was listening to my husband and brother-in-law talk incessantly about World of Warcraft.I was just starting to get frustrated by the conversation when, between the &quot;there's dozens of gankers outside Karazhan&quot; and &quot;the DRUID just ninja'ed another blue,&quot; I heard something that I not only...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=221]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gender Beneath the Surface]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a school psychologist who has been taking computer classes part-time for the past four years. I'm the mother of two daughters, so I have a personal interest in the area of women in technology. Last semester, I took two graduate courses - Human Computer Interaction and Ubiquitous Computing. There...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=218]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NCWIT Heroes]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, I got the chance to listen to a couple of the NCWIT Heroes interviews that Brad Feld turned me on to a while back. Good stuff. The interview with Elaine Wherry (co-founder of Meebo.com) was great, as was the interview with Helen Greiner of iRobot (you know,...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=216]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gotta Have IT!]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The NCWIT K-12 Alliance deployed its first project this week: we gave away 4,000 Gotta Have IT resource kits at the 2007 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Atlanta, Georgia.  The conference, sponsored by ISTE, attracts more than 18,000 K-12 educators from around the world.  We're eager to...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=215]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[the Broader Engagement Initiative: Now Accepting Applications]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applications for grants to participate in the SC07 Technical Program under the Broader Engagement Initiative are being accepted through Friday, June 29. The SC Broader Engagement (BE) initiative is aimed at broadening the engagement of individuals from groups that have traditionally been under-represented in high performance computing. SC07 is the...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=209]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NCWIT and the GI Bill Legislation Rollout]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=204]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's rare to find a situation when one issue before Congress can be solved or aided by another issue, but that's what has happened in recent months.In the quest to increase the number of women and underrepresented minorities that work in the field of Information Technology, NCWIT has proposed a...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=204]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A First-timer's Perspective]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=200]]></link><description><![CDATA[On May 15-16, NCWIT held its bi-annual meetings at its home base here in Boulder, Colorado.  More than 250 members of NCWIT's Alliances, Social Science Advisory Board, and Board of Directors joined with participants of the NSF's Broadening Participating in Computing program for a summit on K-12 IT education...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=200]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[XX Chromosomes in Silicon Valley]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every few months, a reporter, blogger, or columnist knocks on meebo's door and invites one or all of us to share our experiences about being an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. We've talked about the early days brainstorming at California Pizza Kitchen, the day our lone meebo server almost melted underneath...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=197]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting for FIRST]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hello!We are the Green Grinches, FIRST robot team 1624 and Girl Scout troop 1201. We began robotics in the sixth grade in the First Lego League (FLL). That year we won third place for most robust design, our second year we won second place for most innovative design, and our...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=194]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keeping Female Faculty in the Sciences and Engineering]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=193]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 2005, Harvard President Larry Summers speculated that innate gender differences may explain why fewer women than men reach top university science and engineering positions. Summers's remarks caused a firestorm of criticism that eventually cost him his job. I co-authored a study of women in academe that was released by...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=193]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 8 May 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Reverend John E. Brooks and Mentoring]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=192]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not one to shed tears over Business Week magazine. In fact, over decades of reading it, I can't recall a single time I even got misty-eyed over it. But when I was on the plane returning from California a few weeks ago, I was finishing up the March 12th...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=192]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 1 May 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Computing Educator Oral History Project]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inquiring minds often wonder:  How did she get to be what she is?  How do women's career pathways differ from those of men?  It was questions like these, during the 2003 SIGCSE Technical Symposium in Reno, Nevada, that led to an exciting project:  The Computing Educator...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=191]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infoworld's Report on Women Leaving IT]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Recently InfoWorld did a special report on women and IT, called, &quot;Why are Women Exiting IT Professions?&quot;  The article series discusses the advantages of gender diversity, the importance of getting girls interested at the K-12 level, and the traits of women leaders in IT.  It also cites several...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=189]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The View from Abroad]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living and spending my sabbatical in Sweden for more than six months has allowed me to gain a different perspective on a variety of issues in computer science, including those related to gender equity.Sweden is facing many of the same issues that we face in the U.S. regarding information technology;...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=188]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Power of Nice]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am on the plane returning from New York City and the thing that is most on my mind are the wonderful people we meet as we reach out and share the NCWIT mission with others.  On this trip, Avis Yates Rivers (NCWIT Board member), Kay Cioffi (&uuml;ber NCWIT...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=186]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 Apr 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gender Diversity at Web Conferences]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every few months, the blogosphere addresses the matter of gender diversity of speakers at conferences about design, technology, and the web. The latest such incidents revolved around the lack of women speakers at the Future of Web Apps conference in San Francisco last September* and the Creativity Now conference put...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=185]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girl Game Devs]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, I'm Camille Dodson, and I make video games. NCWIT recently contacted me after hearing about my activities, so I'm writing here to share a bit about myself and my goals as a woman in IT. I grew up on things like Super Mario Bros, Zelda, Rayman, and yes,...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=184]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Women Are Brilliant at IT]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of agonizing over why there aren't more women in IT, it might be more interesting and more fruitful to ask: Why are women so brilliant at IT? I ask the question because I know, have employed or interviewed, so many outstanding women in IT, and it always amazes me...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=183]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women Entrepreneurs and Networking]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fourth and last literature review for NCWIT, supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, is now available. As in the other reviews, we examine what social science research tells us about the reasons for the small percentage of IT entrepreneurs who are women. For this review, we consider the...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=182]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 6 Mar 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women Entrepreneurs and Access to Financial Capital]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are much more likely than men to self-finance their business. Rather than go into debt or sell shares, women commonly use personal savings, earnings from the business, home equity loans, credit cards, and family loans to finance their business. In this third in our series of articles for NCWIT...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=181]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Role of Psychological Factors and Gender for IT Start-ups]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The second in our series of entrepreneurship reports is now online. On behalf of NCWIT and The Kauffman Foundation, we have been exploring what the social science literature tells us about why there are so few women entrepreneurs in the IT field. This review considers psychological factors. Our review identifies...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=179]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[IT Start-ups: Where are the Women?]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do women receive less than five percent of the funding to start IT firms? Why do they lag behind men in patenting IT ideas and moving their ideas out of the university and into the marketplace?  On behalf of [begin link /]NCWIT[end link], and with support from the...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=177]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women and Wages]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure this week of teaching a one-day session on entrepreneurship at Wellesley College, as part of a three-week course called Management Basics offered to Wellesley students and taught, in part, by the many devoted alumnae like me ('82) who so enjoy being on campus and getting to...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=175]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 6 Feb 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Girl's First Java Class]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Recently, Lucy Sanders of the National Center for Women &amp; Information Technology (NCWIT) had lunch with Sun's &quot;Succeeding @ Sun as a Woman Engineer&quot; (SASWE) networking group. Lucy talked about NCWIT's mission to ensure that women are fully represented in the influential world of information technology and computing. I came...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=173]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kuwait Conference of Women Leaders in Science, Technology and Engineering]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=172]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recently had the pleasure of participating in the Conference of Women Leaders in Science, Technology and Engineering, in Kuwait, January 8-10. The conference was hosted under the patronage of Kuwaiti Prime Minister H.H. Shaykh Naser Mohammad Al-Sabah, and co-hosted by the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and the Kuwait...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=172]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women &amp; IT Entrepreneurship]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=168]]></link><description><![CDATA[As of 2006, according to The Center for Women's Business Research, there were about 7.7 million majority-women-owned (51 percent or more) businesses in this country, accounting for nearly one-third of all U.S.  businesses.  In the last decade, in fact, women-owned firms have grown at more than twice the...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=168]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creating Your Own K-12 Outreach Program]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women in Computing group members from Indiana University, Rice University, and the University of Colorado at Boulder are organizing a workshop at SIGCSE 2007 to help administrators, faculty, staff, and students create their own K-12 outreach program. We will share our experiences creating a viable, self-sustaining outreach program that connects...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=167]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 9 Jan 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[IT's Need for the Feminine Touch]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend recently sent me a copy of a report from IT advisory firm Cutter Consortium entitled &quot;The Defeminization of IT.&quot; The report highlights the trends that form the basis of NCWIT: girls are not choosing educational paths in IT, and women who have are leaving in droves. The report...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=165]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 2 Jan 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holiday Gifts: the Gorillapod]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=164]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you came up short while shopping for your techno-geek or gadget-hound this year, or if you'll be returning merchandise for a credit and you're wondering how to spend it, we've got a suggestion: the Joby Gorillapod. We stumbled across this gadget while surfing our favorite blogs, and it has...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=164]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best Buy's ROWE Endeavor]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blog I wrote on the problem with the phrase &quot;work-life balance&quot; really struck a chord.  It was picked up by the Boulder Daily Camera, and the following week I was stopped on campus and elsewhere around Boulder by people who said they really agreed with me.  It...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=163]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some things learned at NCWIT]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I attended the NCWIT meetings at Georgia Tech in Atlanta just before Thanksgiving, and came home with a bounty of new thoughts, ideas, and information.  I heard about programs that people are trying in different places, how they are trying them, and what early results they are seeing. ...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=162]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education: Perspectives on Girls, Boys, and the Need for Improvement]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans are in danger of losing their competitive edge in the world economic system.  This idea seems to have widespread, bipartisan support, which is rarely heard of in Washington these days.  Despite the recent focus on this burgeoning issue, there seems to be little agreement about the solution....]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=155]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Problem With &quot;Work-life Balance&quot;]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The phrase &quot;work-life balance&quot; has become a ubiquitous term in most lexicons and it yields about 2 million hits on Google. For many, and I used to be one of them, the phrase connotes fair work environments in which employees enjoy happy, stress-free lives with their friends and family outside...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=153]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meeting the New Boss: Outlook for Technology Policy in the Next Congress]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=152]]></link><description><![CDATA[The outcome of last week's election is now clear with the Democrats taking over the legislative branch. The dust, however, is far from settled. Democrats have the opportunity to make a profound and lasting impact on technology policy. What shape this will take is unclear, because much of it will...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=152]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChicTech's Games for Girls Programming Competition]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=151]]></link><description><![CDATA[ChicTech, an outreach program of the University of Illinois' Department of Computer Science, extends an open invitation for college women to participate in the third annual Games for Girls Programming Competition (G4G).  Applications must be submitted by December 22, 2006 and completed projects are due by March 16, 2007.G4G...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=151]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 9 Nov 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Programming: Why Not?]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=150]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the common explanations for the falling enrollment in CS, among women in particular, is &quot;programming.&quot;  The frequently repeated story is that students think that computer science is only about programming, and they don't like programming, so they don't enroll in computer science.  I've had a couple...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=150]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderating the Atlas Speaker Series &quot;Diversity and Technology&quot; panel]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=149]]></link><description><![CDATA[IT is changing the very foundations of our society. By &quot;IT,&quot; we mean information technologies in the broadest sense  everything, really, about computing and the use of information. IT is changing:The way we communicate  ANYTIME, ANYMEDIA, ANYPLACEThe way we work  ANYWHEREWho can participate and access information ...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=149]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Geek-girl Invasion]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When nearly 1300 geek girls invaded San Diego on October 4, their mission was not hostile.  In fact, a more ebullient invading force would be hard to imagine. From October 4th through the 7th, San Diego was the site of the latest Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing....]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=147]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[5 Reasons Veronica Mars is a Good Role Model for Girls]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=144]]></link><description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago, I saw Paris Hilton on the &quot;Today&quot; show saying that she thought she was a good role model for girls: &quot;I think I am a good role model, and a lot of mothers come up to me and they're really happy ...&quot;I'm sure most mothers want...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=144]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Don't Women Network More?]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you are a man or a woman, networking is hard.  Who enjoys walking into a room full of strangers?  What does one possibly talk about to someone who seems just as absorbed with the vegetable platter?  If you are a woman, why does it seem easier...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=143]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 Oct 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Improving the Image of IT]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=141]]></link><description><![CDATA[The computing community has an image problem. This is not news to long-time readers of this blog - or indeed, anyone who has followed coverage of IT-related stories in the popular press. Dropping enrollment rates and dropping interest in computing are pretty good signs that that there is a perception...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=141]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Supply and Demand of Diversity]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=138]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was excited to share the stage at the Google Faculty Summit with Lucy Sanders and her CS colleagues  and flattered to be a former literature professor in a sea of engineers and scientists.I understand my fellow panelists' concern that young women are increasingly underrepresented among CS majors and,...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=138]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring IT On!]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Members of the Women in Computing group at Indiana University (WIC@IU) created a unique and interactive K-12 outreach program in 2004 that was inspired by Carnegie Mellon's Women@SCS Roadshow. We called our program Just Be because our overarching theme is that people can just be themselves and be in computing,...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=134]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creating the Next Generation of Creators]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Recently I met with the director of youth activities at a local community center in Seattle. We were sitting together in the center's new computer facility, home to twelve work-stations, discussing ideas for a future program to teach computing skills to high-risk girls. I had been working at the center...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=133]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 5 Sep 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition: Do Women Have What it Takes?]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=132]]></link><description><![CDATA[BusinessWeek has a special report this week on What Makes a Winner.&quot;  My favorite feature of this report is the How Competitive Are You? poll.  BusinessWeek surveyed 2,500 middle managers and executives at U.S. companies, aged 25 years and older, about competitiveness: how competitive they consider themselves, how...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=132]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Microsoft Faculty Summit]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=128]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I had the honor of attending the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Washington.  Microsoft's Faculty Summit is an important annual gathering, and normally Bill Gates opens the event.  This year, however, Microsoft decided that a plenary panel should kick things off.  The...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=128]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting Scientists and Congress to Mingle]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=127]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most effective &quot;tools&quot; of the science advocacy community, in making the case for federal support of science, iswell, scientists. Occasions in which researchers are able to sit down with Members of Congress and discuss their own work do more to advance the cause of science than five...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=127]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 1 Aug 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[GNOME's Outreach to Women]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slashdot recently had an interesting thread about GNOME's decision to launch a Women's Summer Outreach Program after they received 181 applications for Google's Summer of Code program, but none from women. To encourage more women to join their development community, GNOME sponsored six projects for women only. The original Slashdot...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=125]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[IT in Iceland]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=121]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family just finished a great vacation in Iceland. I can describe this wonderful country in a nutshell: it's truly unspoiled, has considerably more sheep than people, and possesses all types of terrain.  But I'm not really intending to write about Iceland; instead, I want to tell you how...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=121]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology Summer Camp]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first three weeks of June are always a favorite time for me.  That's when the ATLAS Institute at CU Boulder teams up with the Denver Public School system's Computer Magnet Program to host the DigitalCUrrents summer technology camp. Nine boys and girls from Thomas Jefferson and Denver North...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=118]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 6 Jul 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Photos]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=117]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was wonderful to have Fred Gluck as our NCWIT blog author last week. Fred is a long-time advocate for technology and diverse thought, working tirelessly in K-12 education in Boulder schools.  In an odd twist of fate, just as Fred was writing to us at NCWIT about the...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=117]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls and Math: What Works]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been volunteering in the Boulder Valley School District for the past 15 years, working with students in the areas of math, science, and computers at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Four years ago, when my math enrichment groups were boys and girls together, the 3rd grade group...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=116]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation and the Role of Diversity]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=115]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do technical innovation and diversity have to do with one another?  Very little, apparently, if you follow the press coverage of our nation's current competitiveness debate.  Innovation legislation drafted in the U.S. Congress seems to consider the issue of diversity and innovation a relative non-issue.  But...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=115]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yoda, Magic, and Yoda's Magic]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=112]]></link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Try not. Do...or do not. There is no try.&quot; - Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back  So, how cool is Industrial Light &amp; Magic?  ILM is a Lucasfilm company and you know their movies - Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Mission Impossible, Jurassic Park, and hundreds...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=112]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interesting Exchanges]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=111]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent the last two days at the National Academies in Washington, DC, attending the National Center for Women in IT bi-annual meeting.  It was a really interesting meeting, as always.Probably the most exciting part of the meeting was the power-packed  Town Hall, jointly organized by NCWIT and...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=111]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Shoes]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always wake up early when we are close to our NCWIT semi-annual meetings -- so much going through my mind.  What will the conference program look like?  How will our conference guests get through security at the National Academies?  Is there going to be enough food?...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=109]]></guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Girls in Math and Science Initiative]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=107]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Secretary of Education recently announced an initiative on Girls in Math and Science.  My first reaction: &quot;Hooray!&quot;  My second reaction: &quot;Too bad there's still a need for this.&quot;As we all know, there is.   Though, while women are still significantly under-represented in the technical workforce, the...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=107]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft's $1 Million NCWIT Grant]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=106]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Friday, Microsoft announced that it had donated $1 million to the National Center for Women &amp; Information Technology.  I was at Seattle University at the Future Potential in IT seminar where this was announced and got to say a few words on behalf of NCWIT to the 500...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=106]]></guid><pubDate>Sun, 7 May 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risky Business]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The number of women who are starting IT companies, taking out patents in the IT field, or transferring ideas for development is very small.  Exact numbers are not easy to come by, but there is a belief that perhaps fewer than 10 percent of IT entrepreneurs are women. ...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=104]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 3 May 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A High Note]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=103]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always wanted to see the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, so when Sam Kamin asked me to give a keynote at their Mom's Day event on April 7, I eagerly agreed to go.  I was not disappointed: the countryside is beautiful and the drive from Chicago was peaceful...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=103]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contextual Experiences, Flexible Knowledge]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our approach at  Georgia Tech's College of Computing focuses on the needs that Dr. William Aspray emphasized in his blog here, based on the recent ACM Globalization report: the need to prepare undergraduates to have &quot;flexible knowledge,&quot; and for curricula to take &quot;an interdisciplinary approach.&quot;All Georgia Tech students, regardless...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=102]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real, Real Science]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=101]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an article entitled &quot;Girlie Science,&quot; the author makes mention of a recent University of Leeds study showing that boys and girls have very different interests when it comes to science.  According to the study, which surveyed British 15-year-olds, &quot;the responses of the boys reflect strong interest in destructive...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=101]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 7 Apr 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Activism]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=100]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last week has been a blur -- full of what can only be called a mosaic of contrasting experiences, like the light REM sleep one goes through early in the morning hours.  I must tell you about it.  Perhaps you can help.With the assistance of NCWIT Board...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=100]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art and Computer Science: A Double Life]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=98]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1991, the year I turned forty, I came out of the closet as an artist. I'd been painting as long as I could remember but I had hidden it from my professional colleagues except for a few close friends. I thought it was hard enough to be taken seriously...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=98]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plans for Business, Plans for Life]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=97]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very pleased when NCWIT asked me to share some of my experiences in starting an IT business in a primarily male-oriented landscape.  When my business partner, Char, and I started  Solidware, our intent was to make a difference  a big difference.  Yes, making money...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=97]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[SIGCSE 2006]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=96]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last week, 1,200 of my colleagues and I attended the 37th annual ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education -- sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education, or SIGCSE -- in Houston, Texas.  I have been attending SIGCSE for the past several years, both to...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=96]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NCWIT: Poster Child]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=95]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moral: Great minds are justifiably the most difficult to impress; but once an impression is made, a world of opportunity opens up.The lesson: February 10 brought NCWIT staffers to a breakfast for  National Science Board members visiting the University of Colorado, Boulder. CU provides NCWIT with a home...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=95]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 7 Mar 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Offshoring Report's Good News for Women in IT]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=93]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last week, the ACM Job Migration Task Force released a report on Globalization and the Offshoring of Software.  The report did not explicitly discuss the impact of offshoring on women in developed countries who were already pursuing IT careers or were considering study for an IT career.  Nevertheless,...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=93]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prime Real Estate for NCWIT]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=91]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take a look at this!  What you are looking at  currently under construction  is the ATLAS Center, soon to be home to most of the core staff of the National Center for Women &amp; Information Technology.  In fact, the NCWIT &quot;cluster&quot; is directly inside the center...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=91]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Intentions, Poor Execution]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=89]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to hear about &quot;Saving the World with a CS Degree.&quot; I eagerly anticipated this talk because someone was going to tell undergraduates about the link between computing and helping people. A former student would describe his experiences with creating information technology to serve humanity. He had lived in...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=89]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women as Influencers and Innovators]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=88]]></link><description><![CDATA[Recently Lucy came up to my neighborhood in Westchester County, New York.  While we have met frequently this past year, much of our work and interaction occur over email, so I was excited about showing her around my neighborhood.I met Lucy at the White Plains train station, a 35-minute...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=88]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Brewing &quot;Storm&quot;]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=85]]></link><description><![CDATA[Several months ago I asked my friendly congressman whether he thought the middle of America's bell curve realizes that the U.S. ranks below average for 21 industrialized countries in math and science education.He looked rather startled, so I went on: even when our advanced students are compared to those of...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=85]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty and the Geek]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=83]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not often that my husband insists on turning on the TV at a particular time.  Sports events - that's about it.  But he recently stumbled onto a new show  Beauty and the Geek and he's become a born again TV fan.  Last night, he couldn't...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=83]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NCWIT's Expanding Network]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=82]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lucy Sanders, CEO of NCWIT, and I spent a wonderful day in New York City in December 2005.  Two things stand out in my mind about the day (before we even met on Central Park South).  One, it just happened to be the coldest day of the year...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=82]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Converged Communications, Converged Memories]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=81]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was reminded about the wonders of technology, especially converged communications, on a recent trip to New York City.  Early one morning, I boarded the train from Grand Central Station to White Plains to meet up with Kay Cioffi, President of TexZen Partners, an enterprise development and strategic marketing...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=81]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recognizing Women's Accomplishments: Past, Present and Future]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=79]]></link><description><![CDATA[As head of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology I have the opportunity to recognize and celebrate the achievements of incredible women who are changing the face of technology today.   Two months ago at our annual Women of Vision awards ceremony we recognized three women: Radia...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=79]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historical Parallels]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=75]]></link><description><![CDATA[On my recent long plane ride back from Italy, I read When Old Technologies were New: Thinking about Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century , by Carolyn Marvin.  In this book, Marvin explores how two inventions  the telephone (near and dear to my heart) and the electric...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=75]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Future of IT]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=72]]></link><description><![CDATA[A central focus of my work as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy during the late 1990s was preparing American workersespecially scientists, engineers and technologistsfor jobs in the new economy. Today, with enormous changes afoot in the world of information technology (IT), preparing Americans to compete and win in...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=72]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 7 Dec 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Games 4 Girls]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=70]]></link><description><![CDATA[ChicTech, an outreach program of the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science, is extending an open invitation for college women to participate in the second annual Games for Girls Programming Competition (G4G).  Designed to encourage the development of computer games that appeal to middle- and high-school aged girls...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=70]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NCWIT's 'Jam Packed' Practices Workshop]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=68]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every year, NCWIT has two national meetings.  Last week (November 17th and 18th), we held our inaugural NCWIT Practices Workshop, coincident with our Alliance meetings, at Carnegie Mellon University. We had most of our meetings in Newell Simon Hall, a beautiful building home to the university's  School of...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=68]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Encouragement Fosters Curiosity and Growth]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=65]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recently had a conversation with a friend who told me her daughter has declared that she hates math -- and she's only seven years old!  This got me thinking that the challenge for parents is to help their kids keep an open mind about the subjects they like...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=65]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 9 Nov 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolution, Evolution &amp; Innovation]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=62]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my role at NCWIT, I have wonderful opportunities to talk to people all over the United States about technology and innovation.  As a technologist and innovator myself, I love this part of the job.  September brought together several thought processes for me that I am only now...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=62]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competitiveness and the Global Gender Gap]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=61]]></link><description><![CDATA[For years, science and technology professionals have tried to bring attention to the lack of gender equity in the important fields of information technology (IT) and computing. Now, ten years after the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women recognized the need to promote gender equity around the world, the &quot;gender...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=61]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Executive Mom's Wish List ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=59]]></link><description><![CDATA[Recently I spent hours watching HBO's Six Feet Under so I could catch up before the series finale aired.  As an Executive Mom, the innovation of &quot;On Demand Television&quot; has definitely enhanced my life.  I now have access to hundreds of high-quality, fun, educational programs for my children....]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=59]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 5 Oct 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Katrina and Historically Black Colleges and Universities]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=58]]></link><description><![CDATA[By now we've all seen the devastation that Hurricane Katrina has wrought on hundreds of thousands of people, who are now slowly beginning to recover their broken lives.  One recovery effort about which the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) is deeply concerned is the attempt of thousands of college...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=58]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why the NCWIT Board Chair is a Man]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=56]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most common question I've received over the past year, regarding the National Center for Women &amp; Information Technology (NCWIT), is &quot;why is the board chair a man?&quot;When I agreed to be chair, I anticipated that people would ask me this question.  What I didn't realize was that it...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=56]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 6 Sep 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hurricane Katrina]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=55]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dillard University students camp out. Courtesy Greg Pearson/The Shreveport TimesI feel the need to post a short message about Hurricane Katrina.Two members of our NCWIT community, Dillard University and Xavier University, have sustained heavy damage, and the worst may be yet to come.  Please  click here for a...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=55]]></guid><pubDate>Thu, 1 Sep 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Road Ahead for Wal-Mart]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=52]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a long time since I visited Arkansas.  Growing up in Louisiana we would wander up there from time to time, but it's been quite a while since I spent any quality time in &quot;The Natural State.&quot;  As my plane touched down at Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport,...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=52]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpeechTek Innovations]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=49]]></link><description><![CDATA[On August 2nd, I attended SpeechTEK along with associates from Gold Systems. SpeechTEK is focused on leading-edge speech technologies such as natural language recognition, business applications that utilize speech (like password reset), speaker verification, and customer service. Donald Peterson, CEO of Avaya, gave the keynote for the day.  As...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=49]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Navigating the Road Ahead]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=46]]></link><description><![CDATA[On July 29th, 2005, NCWIT Board member Avis Yates Rivers and I went to visit the Vanguard Group in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.  Deb Denis, who is responsible for IT diversity within Vanguard, had arranged for our visit to talk to over 50 IT managers concerning the declining number of...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=46]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 1 Aug 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Title IX]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=45]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all of the problems that his remarks revealed and engendered, Larry Summers deserves thanks for catapulting the issue of women's under-representation in math, science and technology to a level of nationwide attention it has never before received.  We should capitalize on this attention  and on the commitments...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=45]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Testimony before the House Subcommittee on Education Reform]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=43]]></link><description><![CDATA[On June 28, 2005, Sarah Revi Sterling (pictured, at right, with Rep. Lynn Woolsey), Senior Manager of Microsoft's University Relations and Chairperson of National Center for Women &amp; Information Technology's (NCWIT) Workforce Alliance, testified before the House Subcommittee onf Education Reform's hearing on &quot;How the Private Sector is Helping States...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=43]]></guid><pubDate>Wed, 6 Jul 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work + Life: Finding the Balance]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=38]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder is an agile, campus-wide catalyst for multidisciplinary curriculum, research, and outreach involving the content and tools of Information Technology.  As Executive in Residence for ATLAS, one of the things I do is help coordinate and lead a three-week summer...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=38]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NCWIT's May Meetings]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=34]]></link><description><![CDATA[NCWIT has just completed another busy, engaging, and productive round of semi-annual Alliance Meetings (held May 24-26 in Washington, D.C.) where we covered a range of topics.We reviewed the  NCWIT high-level messaging and progress. We learned about  organizational change  from a slate of experts.We committed to improving...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=34]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation: the Key to America's Future]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=27]]></link><description><![CDATA[The National Medal of Technology, managed by the Technology Administration of the U. S. Department of Commerce, is the highest honor that the President of the United States awards to American innovators.  These Medal Laureates are true stars. Their contributions drive our economy, enhance our lives, maintain our competitive...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=27]]></guid><pubDate>Mon, 6 Jun 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Math, Science, &amp; Engineering: Key to U.S. Competitiveness]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=25]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the post 9/11 world, the Iraq War and threats to homeland security have dominated Washington's national security debate. Fears of terrorist attacks and weapons of mass destruction riveted the attention of policy makers. But now come signs that America's political leaders are finally turning their attention to a chronic...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=25]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a Mentor]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=24]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the not too distant past, I was asked to do an NPR interview on women and mentoring.  It got me thinking in specific terms about what mentors &quot;do,&quot; and ultimately led me to conclude that we use the word &quot;mentor&quot; far too casually.  Often, as mentors, we...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=24]]></guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computer Science: the Perfect Storm]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=22]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to encourage some speculation about one of the world's great incongruities.Computer Science is a great field.  It's supremely creative.  It's changing our lives, driving our economy, and transforming the conduct of science, engineering, and many other fields.  It's projected to be the source of 70%...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=22]]></guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Image and Impact]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=20]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the US and Canada (and in many other parts of the world) the image of computing careers and computing professionals discourages many talented young people, especially women and minorities, from choosing to study computer science. For at least the last decade the computing profession has been widely viewed by...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&amp;editorial_id=20]]></guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>