Island Energy Inquiry Refreshes Teachers
Island Energy Inquiry graduates from across the state gathered to partake in several Refresher courses; a one-day workshop that includes a tour around a renewable energy space located in Hawaii and a hands-on workshops that helps to refresh and revitalize the joy of renewable energy and how it is used around the islands.
Hackathons 2016: A Lookout Guide for All Girls
By Kailea Hieshima. Source: Teen Voices at Women’s eNews.
Here’s a list of hackathons that all girls should know about — whether you are clueless at coding or a pro at programming. The schedule spans the globe and starts on Jan. 9 with a program in Falcon Heights, Minn.
(WOMENSENEWS)—Educators and funders are highlighting the need to include female students in programs for science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. It’s part of a push to expand career opportunities for women, who as of 2011 represent only 24 percent of the STEM workforce. But many of the non-school based computer science competitions, called hackathons, are gender neutral. Here is a list of upcoming hackathons that all girls should know about; whether you are clueless at coding or a pro at programming.
Gender Differences in Recognition for Group Work
A new Harvard study affirms that women are given less credit than men in co-authored articles; helps explain gender bias in hiring and tenure.
Author of study: Heather Sarsons
“This paper explores whether bias arising from group work helps explain the gender promotion gap. Using data from economists’ CVs, I test whether coauthored publications matter differently for tenure by gender. While solo-authored papers send a clear signal about one’s ability, coauthored papers do not provide specific information about each contributor’s skills. I find that women incur a penalty when they coauthor that men do not experience. This is most pronounced for women coauthoring with men and less pronounced the more women there are on a paper. A model shows that the bias documented here departs from traditional discrimination models.”
Gallup: U.S. Girls Less Confident They Can Learn Computer Science; TV, Movies, Parents, Teachers
Gallup released a recent study: “U.S. Girls Less Confident They Can Learn Computer Science.”
Excerpts from the online article (http://bit.ly/KenPopeComputerScienceAndGender) are included below:
“American girls in seventh through 12th grades express less confidence than boys do in their ability to learn computer science, according to a recent study by Gallup and Google. Less than half of female students (46%) say they are “very confident” they could learn computer science, compared with 62% of male students.
GIS Day Webcast Recap
Schools from around the state gathered on November 18, 2015 for a GIS Day Webcast hosted by the Women in Technology team.
Students participating in the interactive webcast were able to learn the various ways professionals use GIS in Hawaii that extended from the beaches to the forests across the state.
Students Explore GIS Technologies at NOAA
Over 150 students from Castle High School, Waipahu High School, Mililani High School, Nanakuli High and Intermediate, and Hawaii School for the Deaf and the Blind gathered at the NOAA Daniel K. Inouye Regional Center to celebrate GIS Day on November 17, 2015 to learn the various ways GIS technologies in five interactive sessions.