The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is holding their California convention this weekend in Los Angeles. Tomorrow, I am giving a breakfast talk on mentoring. I am a member of both the San Jose and California Online branches of AAUW and am looking forward to the big event!
13 April 2014: Here I am giving the talk:
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The TechWomen delegation gave workshops on careers in Science, Engineering, and Technology to the girls at the Khalil Gibran School in Rabat today. Mohna Dhomse and I gave a talk called “How to Start a Blog and Share Your Voice… Safely!”. We enjoyed lunch at the Cosmopolitan Restaurant with local dignitaries, then went shopping for ceramics at a local atelier de poterie (pottery workshop). In the evening, the entire delegation spoke at length with Mrs. Hakima El Haité, Minister in Charge of Environment, and Delegate to the Minister of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment, who generously invited us into her lovely home. I am sad that tomorrow night is our TechWomen Morocco delegation farewell party.
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The TechWomen delegation to Rwanda earlier this month was honored to receive a great deal of local and US media attention, before, during, and after our journey. New stories are still coming in…
4 March 2014 addition: Institute of International Education Quarterly Newsletter: March 2014 “TechWomen Expand the Network of African Women in STEM” (lead article)
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On our last full day together in Rwanda, the TechWomen delegation visited Girl Hub and the University of Rwanda – College of Science and Technology (formerly called Kigali Institute of Science, Technology and Management or KIST).
Girl Hub is a strategic collaboration between the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Nike Foundation. Girl Hub helps transform the lives of adolescent girls living in poverty by unleashing their potential and empowering them with the assets they need to end poverty for themselves, their families and their community.
Girl Hub publishes Ni Nyampinga magazine and distributes it to 90,000 girls in Rwanda.
Four of the six 2013 Emerging TechWomen Leaders from Rwanda were KIST graduates. We spoke with the faculty, and enjoyed a well-escorted campus tour before meeting with about a hundred women technical students – answering their personal and professional questions. After our university visit, the TechWomen group went shopping for fabric, then had a farewell gathering at the hotel. Tomorrow, the first group of us departs for the mountains to see the gorillas. This has been a moving and inspiring week.
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The TechWomen delegation started today with a visit to the Carnegie Mellon University – Rwanda campus where we talked with the women Engineering students. Lunch was at the wonderful Shokola restaurant – on a covered deck in a garden. This was followed by a visit to the US Embassy for an address by Evan Ryan (Assistant US Secretary of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs). The TechWomen mentors then spent some delightful hours under a big tent on the embassy lawn talking about science, technology, and careers with about a hundred remarkable and lively girls from many local schools. In the evening, we enjoyed dinner with dancers at Heaven restaurant – with a night view of Kigali. Lovely and inspiring day!
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As part of yesterday’s TechWomen delegation visit to the Gashora Girls Academy (GGAST) in Rwanda, I worked with other TechWomen to present two sessions of the Blogging and Web Research Workshop. Here is the list of blog topics that the girls signed up to write about as guests on Katysblog:
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The TechWomen delegation spent yesterday at the amazing Gashora Girls Academy (GGAST) in Rwanda’s Eastern Province of Bugesera, about an hour from the capital of Kigali. We learned about these talented and intelligent girls’ education, lives, and hopes for college and leadership in Rwanda. The TechWomen mentors presented to several hundred girls – discussions on careers in technology, engineering, and science, plus workshops on interviewing, blogging, software application development and other geeky subjects. I worked with other TechWomen to present two sessions of the Blogging and Web Research Workshop. We also brought English-language books by and about women for the school library. I will be posting the list of blogs that the girls promised to write as guests here on Katysblog. It was an inspiring day with remarkable young women.
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