Educational Technology

August 15, 2011

Tech girlz rule: Microsoft camps designed to draw young women into field

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:40 am

by Marino Eccher, InForum

When Heidi Triplett was growing up in Adams, N.D., the idea of going into a technical field never crossed her mind. Today, she’s an 11-year Microsoft veteran; back then, she wanted to be a schoolteacher or a fashion designer. “I just think that in society, so many people look at so many roles and say, ‘That’s for a man,’ ” she said. “Part of it is that you don’t think of it. It’s not on the radar.” This week, she made it her mission to put it on the radar of the 130 teenage girls who came to Microsoft Fargo for a three-day camp designed to draw young women into a field in which they’re woefully underrepresented. The camp, a company-wide program called DigiGirlz, draws nearly 14,000 participants worldwide (not all camps were held this week). The Fargo edition is the largest outside of corporate headquarters in Redmond, Wash., and draws participants from multiple states.

http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/329566/group/Business/

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