Sentences with phrase «young women in technology»

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That includes funding programs that teach STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to young people in underserved areas, collaborating with higher education institutions, investing in women and minority - owned companies and creating bolder hiring and retention incentives and programs to encourage diversity within Intel.

At the same time, Intel announced similar initiatives, such as its massive Diversity in Technology Initiative, which through a partnership with GirlsWhoCode is helping to provide more educational support to a greater number of young women.

As the Founding Program Director of the WiTNY Initiative, she's a recognized leader in facilitating the participation of young girls and women in technology careers.

This announcement comes just weeks after the Uber self - driving car accident that killed a young woman in Arizona, forcing the Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to respond, saying: «First of all, Uber does not use Nvidia's DRIVE technology.

Girls, young women, subject matter experts from the justice, law enforcement, and information and communication technology (ICT) sectors, along with educators, parents, program workers from across the country participated in consultations to identity gaps, challenges, promising practices, and recommendations for strategies to end cyberviolence.

Soon after launching it became clear that if we wanted change the ratio of women in technology we needed to start younger.

International Telecommunication Union Girls in ICT Day is a global effort to encourage female children and young women to take up careers in information and communication technology.

The IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards recognise and promote women in engineering and technology and encourage more women to join the profession.

The awards honor young men and women who actively demonstrate leadership in community service, particularly in the areas of community empowerment; science, technology, engineering and math; or innovative thinking.

While it is true that women face social barriers, as they do in much of the world, young women nonetheless comprise more than half of undergraduate enrollment in some science, technology and medical courses at major Arab universities.

Young women hold their own in high school in science, math, and technology, achieving higher grades than men but scoring lower on math SATs.

The President's initiative will empower young men and women to invent and commercialize advanced energy technologies such as efficient and cost effective methods for converting sunlight to electricity and fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, stationary and portable advanced batteries for plug - in electric cars, advanced energy storage concepts that will enable sustained energy supply from solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, high - efficiency deployment of power across «smart grids,» and carbon neutral commercial and residential buildings.

GIST has helped young women entrepreneurs across the world to get the mentorship, support, and skills necessary to develop their science and technology ideas and compete in the global...

I was a young African - American woman in 1996, determined to do my best at Lockheed Martin, one of the world's foremost technology companies, when I was named to lead an integrated - product team for a mission - critical U.S. Navy program.

With the increase in technology use, there is a positive correlation with decreased body image in young women.

The fact that many young women do not pursue a career in the «STEM» fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics may have its roots in gender stereotypes.

NASA aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson told more than 600 seventh - to tenth - grade girls at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's Young Women's Conference that she was depending on them to pursue their dreams and make their ideas a reality in the wide - open field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

Some 575 seventh - to tenth - grade girls from throughout New Jersey, as well as Pennsylvania and Maryland, found fun and inspiration doing myriad hands - on activities and meeting female scientists at The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's 15th annual Young Women's Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) on March 18.

(Photo by Over 400 students and chaperones attended the 2013 Young Women's Conference in Science, Mathematics, Technology, and Engineering - the largest YWC ever!)

There was a strong emphasis on women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at this year's meeting, and as such, many of the young scientists involved in discussion panels and sessions were women.

Some 360 young women from seventh to tenth grade spent the day immersed in science and technology at the Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Lab's Young Women's Conference on March 22 at Princeton Univeryoung women from seventh to tenth grade spent the day immersed in science and technology at the Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Lab's Young Women's Conference on March 22 at Princeton Univerwomen from seventh to tenth grade spent the day immersed in science and technology at the Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Lab's Young Women's Conference on March 22 at Princeton UniverYoung Women's Conference on March 22 at Princeton UniverWomen's Conference on March 22 at Princeton University.

NASA aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson told more than 600 seventh - to tenth - grade girls at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's Young Women's Conference that she was depending on them to pursue their dreams and make their ideas a reality in the wide - open field of Science, Technology, Engin

Over 360 young women from across New Jersey and Pennsylvania joined us today for the 12th annual Young Women's Conference in Science, Mathematics, Technology, and Engineeyoung women from across New Jersey and Pennsylvania joined us today for the 12th annual Young Women's Conference in Science, Mathematics, Technology, and Engineewomen from across New Jersey and Pennsylvania joined us today for the 12th annual Young Women's Conference in Science, Mathematics, Technology, and EngineeYoung Women's Conference in Science, Mathematics, Technology, and EngineeWomen's Conference in Science, Mathematics, Technology, and Engineering.

These days with progression in technology especially the revolution of smart phones has made the process of younger women and older men much easier and more private.

How does the current array of technology in schools fit with the ages - old aspiration of forming thoughtful and reflective young men and women who will strive for a greater good beyond themselves?

«Engaging the Future of STEM: A study of international best practice for promoting the participation of young people, particularly girls, in science, technology engineering and Maths (STEM)», conducted by Barbara Cail STEM Fellows (Sarah Chapman and Dr Rebecca Vivian) was funded and supported by the Australian Government in partnership with Chief Executive Women Ltd..

A Texas nonprofit organization called Girlstart began Project IT Girl in 2006 when it received an $ 898,976 grant from the National Science Foundation to use collaborative technology and science - intensive projects to interest young women in STEM careers.

GlamSci aims to support the advancement of education in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects among young people, particularly disadvantaged young women and men from poorer backgrounds, who would not ordinarily engage in these subjects.

Whilst the number of young women embarking on a technology or engineering course in the UK is on the rise, there are still significant challenges for the female engineers of the future.

At last week's presentation, «Launching an Entrepreneurial Venture: From Cambridge to Tajikistan Using Raspberry Pis and the Sneakernet,» Beary shared her experiences with Entrepreneurial Lab (eLab)-- an entrepreneurship education program for high - potential, disadvantaged young women between the ages of 12 and 15 around the world — both in an effort to capture the early stages of a startup and to share how the organization has used low - cost technology to reach young women living in remote parts of low - income countries.

Female students entering grades 7 through 9 in the district, who have a strong interest in science and engineering technology, can take part in the Engineering Institute for Young Women.

While «Made with Code» has been designed with young women in mind, please consider taking the time to learn a little more about the program no matter your age or gender... it might surprise you to discover the ways that technology is changing the world around you (and also that it is being achieved by regular people no different from you and me).

In another work, Seduction of a Cyborg (1994), we follow a young white woman (bearing close resemblance to CyberRoberta) as she undergoes a series of medical procedures to become one with internet technology.

While not overtly political (though it could be argued that, with the underrepresentation of women in tech, just working with technology as a woman artist is a feminist act), these works act as historical precedents to the more biting commentary by younger artists.

Collaborating with partners Susan B. Anthony Recovery Center, Women in Distress of Broward County, PACE Center for Girls and Young at Art Museum, and MOCA North Miami's Women on the Rise program, Girls» Club offers multimedia and digital imaging workshops that build self - esteem while developing creative skill sets using art and technology for women and girls navigating transitions in their lWomen in Distress of Broward County, PACE Center for Girls and Young at Art Museum, and MOCA North Miami's Women on the Rise program, Girls» Club offers multimedia and digital imaging workshops that build self - esteem while developing creative skill sets using art and technology for women and girls navigating transitions in their lWomen on the Rise program, Girls» Club offers multimedia and digital imaging workshops that build self - esteem while developing creative skill sets using art and technology for women and girls navigating transitions in their lwomen and girls navigating transitions in their lives.

Change will be driven more by economic forces brought not just from women leaving law firms but from clients, younger male lawyers, increasing global competition, rising costs in both housing and commercial space, technology — and a host of other societal and business factors that we can not even imagine.

• The illegibility of Ashley Smith's agencies in the Smith case functions as a technology of governance that serves to maintain the invisibility of, and even further obscure, the agencies and voices of adolescent young women from the formal discourses of law while supporting racist, classist, unequal valuations of which mothers are «good» and count;

And was just recently invited to join a board on a group called Voices for Innovation, came back from Washington DC last week for my first meeting there and I'm kind of driving the Women in Technology initiative and advocacy for that group and very excited about being part of that and really trying to raise awareness, getting more educational opportunities for our younger, especially the elementary school age group to get involved in technolTechnology initiative and advocacy for that group and very excited about being part of that and really trying to raise awareness, getting more educational opportunities for our younger, especially the elementary school age group to get involved in technologytechnology early.

Mae (Harry Potter and Beauty and the Beast star Emma Watson), an impressionable young woman in a dead - end cubicle job, gets hired as a customer service rep at The Circle, an immense Google - like company with seemingly utopian, progressive ideas about how technology can drive human connection.

Women, between the ages of 25 and 30 are excelling in the science, engineering and technology fields making up 41 % of the young talent with related credentials.