STEM: How to increase girls’ participation

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“sans diversity, we limit the set of life experiences that are applied, and as a result, we pay an opportunity cost — a cost in products not built, in designs not considered, in constraints not understood, in processes not invented” …Bill Wulf

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How to increase girls’ participation

Promote a-typical role models in ICT – both male and female

THIS is what a TECH Girl looks like!

How to increase girls’ participation

Be conscious of gender biases in teaching practices and curriculum

Stereotype threat is perpetuated by the simple task of asking a girl to identify her gender on a maths test before

she sits the test.

Research (Aronson, 1999) suggests that by this very simple act, the girl will perform worse on the test than she is capable of because that is the expectation of her ability in society. They under-perform due to the self-identification

of their personal demographics.

How to increase girls’ participation

Promote ICT activities and tasks that have a clear social benefit RANDOM HACKS

OF KINDNESSBrisbane, Winter 2016

HACKATHON: June 4th and 5th at QUT Gardens Point

IDEATION NIGHT: 6pm May 11th at Orange Sky LaundryHQ (18 Proe Street Newstead)

Twice a year altruistic volunteers from the IT community come togetherand spend a full weekend helping charities, not for profits andcommunity groups solve some of the concrete problems that they face.We build solutions like mobile apps, websites and browser plugins thathave immediate impact on the recieving organisations. Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) was started in 2009 by Google,Yahoo!, Microsoft, NASA and The World Bank. RHoK came to Australia in2011 and is now Australia's largest and longest running hackathon forsocial good. On the 4th and 5th of June we will be heading to QUT's beautifulGardens Point campus to work fast and furious on world-changingprojects from Orange Sky Laundry (Young Australian of the Yearwinners!), Backbone Youth Arts, Street Swags (more Young Australian ofthe Year winners!) and Spur Projects! If you are a developer, programmer, engineer, designer, project manageror simply someone who is looking to be a part of something great pleaseregister your interest via our Meetup group. www.meetup.com/RHoK-Brisbane/

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How to increase girls’ participation

Discuss the historical contributions of females to our ICT industry

Did you know that I invented Spread Spectrum, which is the basis for wifi that we all use today. This was in the 1920’s while I was a Hollywood Screen Goddess...

Hedy Lamar

I am the first programmer in the world, and yes, I’m a woman! I worked on Charles Babbage’s early

mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine in the mid 1800’s.

Ada Lovelace

When I was a Rear Admiral in the US Navy I invented the compiler, which revolutionised the way we talk to

computers, from punch cards to computer code.

Grace Hopper

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