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Did you know that teenage girls who follow two or more female role models on social media are three times more likely to use the word "aspire"? You can help share the stories and images of female role models like Limor Fried, electrical engineer and founder of Adafruit, or space scientist Dr. Maggie Pocock in your community. The Female Lead   is a non-profit project dedicated to making women's stories more visible, and to provide positive role models for future generations, nurturing young women's confidence and ambition is all spheres. The Female Lead is a book with 60 images and profiles of accomplished women from around the world, including women in the arts, sciences, sports, business, and activism. The book is available for free along with teaching materials for schools.  The National Girls Collaborative Project is proud to promote  The Female Lead   to increase awareness of the free book and teaching mat...

Get to know the creative minds of the Futures Fund! Whether you would like your teen to join the program, or a business looking for new talent or just would like to know what exactly this organization is all about, our Showcase is for You! Free & Open to the public. #TheFuturesFund

Tomorrow our Fall 2017 registration opens - mark your calendar! Know a middle/high school student who would love to learn photography or coding? Share this with them!  http://www.thefuturesfund.org/apply/

  Google-Gallup CS Education Data: Further Explorations of Underserved Communities Public event Date:  Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - 11:00am - 12:00pm Time Zone:  Pacific Location (optional):  Sign up: http://ngcproject.org/uc_signup/attendees/emails Adobe Connect To understand the landscape of computer science (CS) education, Google and Gallup have surveyed about 16,000 students, parents, teachers, principals, and superintendents across the U.S. each year for two years.  In this webinar, they will share further insights into underserved communities, including new data on those in rural areas and small towns, as well as insights on girls, Black students, and Hispanic students.  With these data, they hope educators and advocates can realize the unique circumstances of these groups and better serve their needs for equitable CS educati...

The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries.  I had the opportunity to facilitate the Louisiana Technology Park 's   coding workshop on behalf of The Futures Fund   for students from the Big Buddy Program.  I enjoyed instructing the students in a one-hour introduction to programming, designed to demystify code and show that anyone can learn the basics. Thanks to Louisiana Technology Park's Executive Director, Stephen Loy for hosting the Hour of Code workshop. So proud of these budding developers! Big Buddy Program

LaWit May Meeting: GIS with Fran Harvey. Fran Harvey ,  with the LARSGIS Institute, provided an introductory session about GIS and GIS applications.  The attendees learned how to use the GIS tools inside an ArcGIS Online Org Account (AGOL).  We then learned how to build a Story Map using GIS data.  This was a great introduction to GIS! About LARSGIS Institute: The LARSGIS Institute is a nonprofit corporation.  Their mission is to foster learning about the earth, its inhabitants and the use of Remote Sensing(RS) science and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. More info: https://www.larsgisinstitute. org   One of my favorite Story Maps : Large Art Check out my first StoryMap: LaWIT Story Maps This link will be available for a short time. Images of Story map

Excited to participate on behalf of The Futures Fund in Senator Regina Barrow's 2nd Annual Girls, Gigabytes and Gadgets. This event combines discussion forums and hands on workshops to get young women and girls engaged in technology. More info. Join me at the Coding/App development workshop at the Louisiana Technology Park. The Hour of Code started as a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify "code", to show that anybody can learn the basics, and to broaden participation in the field of computer science. It has since become a worldwide effort to celebrate computer science, starting with 1-hour coding activities but expanding to all sorts of community efforts. =============================================================================== My Favorite Event Photos View Slideshow

Article As a kid, Kaya Thomas enjoyed reading. “No matter how old I was, what I was going through, how I felt in any moment, a book was always a means of escape” she  wrote in a blog post in 2015 . “A way to dive into a new world and become a new character.” As a self-professed “nerdy black girl in high school,” Thomas’ love of books, and the escapism they afforded, only grew. She’d read three or four a week, seeking solace in their pages when she “felt very different than most of my peers.” Something changed in those high school years, though. As a mature reader, she began to pay more attention to how the characters in her favorite books were described ― namely, how they were meant to look. “When I was a teenager I began to realize that a lot of the books I read didn’t have characters that looked like me,” she’s since admitted . “Realizing that made me feel invisible.” So as a student at Dartmouth College, Thomas decided to do something about her sense of invisibilit...

Excited to be a part of Girls who Code at Southern Lab!