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🚀 Let’s Empower the Next Generation of Female Innovators! 🚀 Is your daughter between 11 and 14 years old? If so, you must sign her up for the MINT Summer Camp! 🌟 📅 Date: August 23, 2024 📍 Location: Siemenscity, Siemensstraße 90, 1211 Vienna I am incredibly excited to be part of the organizing team, and a huge thank you to Stefanie M. Bauer for having me on board. Our mission? To inspire young girls to explore careers in technology and engineering, showing them that they have the potential to excel in these fields and help break down societal stereotypes. In our camp, girls will dive into exciting programming courses, hands-on tech workshops, and enlightening sessions on mechanical engineering. We aim to open their eyes to the fascinating world of MINT (Mathematics, Informatics, Natural Sciences, and Technology). Reflecting on my own experiences, the Children’s Business Week in Lower Austria was a pivotal moment in my childhood. It introduced me to various professions, including the book and media industry and entrepreneurship, shaping my future path significantly. This is why I passionately endorse the MINT Summer Camp. If your daughter fits the age group, don’t hesitate to enroll her! Follow our Instagram account for updates, or reach out to me directly with any questions. More information is also available on our website. 🔧 The Challenge: Far too few girls are pursuing careers in MINT fields. ✨ Our Mission: To change this narrative. My team and I are dedicated to showing young girls how cool and rewarding a career in MINT can be. By breaking down gender stereotypes and empowering girls to realize their full potential, we can create a more diverse and innovative future. Join us in this mission! Let’s inspire the next generation of female tech leaders and innovators. 🌐💡 Anmeldelink: https://lnkd.in/dbyzDZzn #MINTCamp #GirlsInSTEM #WomenInTech #FutureInnovators #SiemensCity #Vienna #STEMEducation #EmpowerGirls #BreakingBarriers #InspiringChange

🚨 "Are we steering girls into tech careers?" 🚨 I've heard this concern voiced here in Utah and it's especially disheartening when it comes from women. 👇 The report below highlights the significant talent that female students in Utah have for STEM-related careers, alongside their aptitude for various other fields. In a career exploration environment, shouldn't we be showing students as many options as possible for a successful future? Here's an example of how this kind of information can benefit students: One high school used aptitude data to invite female students with the talent for STEM to attend the Women Tech Council's SheTech event. Every student that was invited, accepted the invitation to explore. They spent the day at the event and this was the result: 💡 1/3 of the students were LIT UP and excited about what they experienced. 💭 1/3 of the students were interested in learning more. 🚫 1/3 of the students decided "not for me." Every one of those outcomes is valuable. Last year, YouScience studied over 500 recently graduated students and found that 57% of women reported not being exposed to a wide enough variety of career options (compared to 29% of male students). 🔦 Shining a light on the talents of females in Utah is not about steering them into tech careers. It is about showing them the multitude of options available for exploration - which is exactly what they need. https://lnkd.in/gBKxJ7kU

Last month I got to give a virtual talk at my alma mater, University of California, Berkeley, as a part of Association of Women in EE&CS. 👩🏻💻 🤩 🤓 It made me realize one of the things I miss most about college is the built-in ✨COMMUNITY✨ to connect with peers of similar goals and interests and learn from each other. The lineup of my peers was stellar and gave a variety of perspectives in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EE/CS). Regardless of what walk of life each panelist came from—whether it was to go into industry, leave industry, become a professor, switch concentrations within academia—everyone emphasized: ⭐ Do the things that bring you joy even if they don’t fit in to what you think you “should” be doing. ⭐ Build community, build community, build community. For every panelist, these were the 2 key ingredients to finding career fulfillment regardless of career path. If you’re a woman in STEM, you may enjoy the work and career journeys of my fellow panelists: 🌟 Swetha Prabakaran : Pivoted from product management to explore entrepreneurship and dance 🌟 Carla Bassil : Pivoting from BioMed Eng to Business and now a PhD in EECS 🌟 Annie Ulichney : Loved studying MechE in undergrad, but knew she didn't want to do MechE in industry and pursued a Stats PhD 🌟 Dr. Lisa Yan: Associate Professor at UC Berkeley of the EECS department 🌟 Robin Netzorg : Went from majoring in linguistics in undergrad without internships to a PhD in EECS focusing on AI, human voice, and intersectionality with age, race, and accent. P.S. If you’re a Cal grad in EE/CS in the Seattle area looking to build community, we have an active alumni group. Reach out if you're interested in joining. 😉 #womeninstem #womenintech #womeninengineering

Today is #GirlsinICT Day! 👩💻 To create a more inclusive future in tech and close the gender digital divide, we need to prepare both students and the tech industry for future generations of women in tech. At BRILLIANT, industry and education will come together to shape a brighter future for generations to come. 💡 Shape the future of education: https://lnkd.in/eupXdKBU

✨️ re-sharing this INCREDIBLE #opportunity ... because not only is SHARING resources CARING, but it proactively EMPOWERS others. In a previous post I shared how the HIGH COSTS of conference tickets acts as a significant barrier, especially for historically marginalized groups such as #women & PoCs (specifically: Black, Latine, Indigenous people) whose salary (due to the earning & equity gap)/or company might not cover these expenses. (https://lnkd.in/g82etCbU) Having the support to attend conferences/courses through #scholarships / #grants has assisted and impacted my professional development SIGNIFICANTLY. There were so many events I missed out on early and mid-career simply because I could not afford to attend. By addressing the high cost of conference tickets and providing more #inclusive opportunities, the tech industry can ensure that all individuals, regardless of their background, have a chance to grow, learn, and contribute to the field. ✌🏾

"𝟔𝟓% 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐣𝐨𝐛𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐭." During our co-founder's recent Tech She Can intro webinar, an eye-opening statistic was shared: "65% of children in primary schools today will work in jobs that don’t exist yet." At InnoForge, we are at the forefront of turning this prediction into a positive reality. Our passion lies in STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. We're dedicated to preparing both companies and individuals for the wave of new careers that STEM advancements will create. Our work is more than recruitment; it's about forging future innovation. 🔬𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭? InnoForge is committed to not only understanding but actively shaping the work landscape of tomorrow. By investing in STEM education and connecting with institutions driving forward these fields, we are helping to develop the next generation of innovators, thinkers, and leaders.   We're here to ensure that the workforce of the future is ready for new challenges and opportunities in careers that are just beginning to emerge. Our partnerships across the STEM sectors reflect our commitment to advancing society through education, innovation, and collaboration💜

Invitation: Share Your #STEM Journey with Aspiring Young Women I've mentioned previously that TrustThink has initiated a STEM Program with Academy of Our Lady of Peace (OLP) Academy in San Diego. OLP is an all-girls school, and also the oldest school in San Diego, CA. This effort is part of our commitment to inspire and prepare young women for STEM fields, equipping them for college and their future careers. Our first group of interns is already making significant progress, engaging in projects ranging from understanding quantum resistant cryptography to documenting threats associated with the intersection of cloud and automotive. However, practical experience is just one aspect of their development. We also want to expose them to the varied career paths in STEM, highlighting both opportunities and challenges. To this end, if you have insights or experiences you're willing to share with these students, I'd appreciate your involvement. A brief phone call / discussion on your career path could provide valuable perspective and inspiration to these aspiring professionals. If you're willing to contribute, please let me know, and I'll coordinate a session. Your expertise can make a real difference in shaping the future of these young women in STEM. "Adding tags for connection and awareness: Women in Defense (WID) San Diego Women Who Code Society of Women Engineers

How early in life are children and young people met and affected as future workers by corporate organisations and society at large? How may discourses of employability and diversity as a business case entangle and circulate with affective atmospheres of having fun, problem-solving, gender equality, and tech-inventions to inspire more girls and young women towards technology educations and careers? And how might we more critically understand the seemingly innocent collaborations between corporate organisations and other stakeholders that seek to allure and motivate children to work on themselves in order to imagine endless possibilities and a better future for themselves and society (by working with technology)? These are some of the questions Justine Grønbæk Pors and I explore in this paper, where we develop the concept of governmental atmospheres to analyse a tech-camp for girls designed to raise their interests in technology educations and careers. While this may sound like a win-win situation regarding children’s technology interests, and gender equality in technology, and the shortage of workers in this field, the affective atmospheres may indeed also govern a self-work and individualise responsibility for success (in technology), beyond the needs and interests of children. Read more about all this in the paper just published online with Organization journal. Thanks to the journal editors and reviewers for the inspiring review process. We are also grateful for the fantastic research team around us for discussions and ideas helping us further this work, especially Jette Sandager Anja Svejgaard Pors Dorthe Staunæs @Signe Ravn and Sharon Kishik. Furthermore we thank the actors for sharing all their efforts with pushing the agenda of gender equality in education and gender segregated labour markets with us. And lastly we are thankful to the Danish Independent Research Fund for supporting our work.

Inspiring Change in the Next Generation This week has been nothing short of extraordinary. I had the privilege of speaking to an incredible group of young women from the STEM Next Opportunity Fund Flight Crew, each representing their home state with pride and purpose. These brilliant teenage girls are on a transformative journey to dismantle stereotypes and ignite a passion for #STEM among their peers through active community engagement. Their energy was palpable, their determination unwavering. It was a room alive with potential, a testament to the power of young minds committed to making a difference. But the inspiration didn't stop there. Over 150,000 Out-of-School time professionals joined us, alongside numerous industry partners, all united in the vision of a more inclusive and diverse future in STEM fields. Reflecting on our journey, it's incredible to see how far we've come since Intel proudly became a founding member of the Million Girls Moonshot four years ago. Today, we celebrate a monumental milestone: over 5.2 million youth and 2.6 million girls have been exposed to the wonders of STEM, thanks to this initiative. This is more than just numbers; it's a narrative of change, of breaking barriers and envisioning a world where every girl has the opportunity to pursue her dreams in #science, #technology, #engineering, and #mathematics. Let's continue to support and empower these bright young minds. Together, we can ensure that the sky is not the limit but just the beginning. #MillionGirlsMoonshot #FutureLeaders #IamIntel #girlsinSTEM

🚀 Tech She Can Research Insights! 🌐 Tech She Can Our recent study with Tech She Can revealed critical insights on primary school careers education: Importance: 75% of primary teachers value careers education. Access Concerns: Only half have access to quality and inclusive careers education. Sufficiency Gap: Merely 15% feel the available experiences are sufficient, leaving many kids without diverse career insights. We're committed to bridging this gap! Join us in creating engaging STEM experiences for the leaders of tomorrow. Read the report now: https://hubs.li/Q02j0Glj0 #TechSheCan #STEMEducation 🌐✨