http://www.panopy.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:57:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.panopy.com/women-in-technology-why-care-about-gender/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Linda Ziskind Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:51:15 +0000 http://www.panopy.com/?page_id=59#comment-11 Great post and love the Secret Ada iPhone App. This is a subject near and dear to me, I do consulting for an educational non-profit and we're in the 2nd year of a 2 year grant from NSF to promote science to young girls. Our program, called "Science: It's a Girl Thing" is run from a Facebook Fan page (http://facebook.dj/scienceitsagirlthing) and twitter account: http://twitter.com/scienceforgirls. As you mention, inadvertently, or not, parents and teachers can be the source of girls' lack of interest in STEM subjects. On the flip side, however, parent involvement can help girls develop confidence in their abilities to master STEM. On Facebook we have aggregated a community of nearly 1700 people. Mostly women, but some dads as well. There's a decent level of engagement and our 10 science activity cards are downloaded and the rate of 500-600 per month. We're continuing to work on expanding the program. In the meantime, I'm going to tell them about Secret Ada. Great post and love the Secret Ada iPhone App. This is a subject near and dear to me, I do consulting for an educational non-profit and we’re in the 2nd year of a 2 year grant from NSF to promote science to young girls. Our program, called “Science: It’s a Girl Thing” is run from a Facebook Fan page (http://facebook.dj/scienceitsagirlthing) and twitter account: http://twitter.com/scienceforgirls. As you mention, inadvertently, or not, parents and teachers can be the source of girls’ lack of interest in STEM subjects. On the flip side, however, parent involvement can help girls develop confidence in their abilities to master STEM. On Facebook we have aggregated a community of nearly 1700 people. Mostly women, but some dads as well. There’s a decent level of engagement and our 10 science activity cards are downloaded and the rate of 500-600 per month. We’re continuing to work on expanding the program. In the meantime, I’m going to tell them about Secret Ada.

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