Three of us from the new
MAGIC program presented at The Girls’ Middle School
(GMS) in Mountain View, CA today. GMS is partnering with MAGIC on our
first pilot program. MAGIC (More Active Girls In Computing) is a mentorship program
between very senior technical women at Sun Microsystems, Google, NASA and other
organizations and middle school girls. MAGIC was kicked off at the
October 2007 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. (MAGIC has just
been accepted to present again at
Hopper 2008.) We want to foster in these girls a positive attitude towards
computing and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).
Hosted by Michelle Friend Hutton (GMS Technology Director), Ira Pramanick, Meenakshi Kaul-Basu,
and I presented at a GMS school assembly this afternoon
to tell the girls all about it. We passed out MAGIC pencils imprinted with our web address.
There was much trading of pencils until all the girls got the colors they preferred.
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