We are on today. Here are the very nice comments from Liz Upton:
I met Tom Dubick about a year ago at Hackerspace
Charlotte, NC. He teaches engineering to the girls at Charlotte Latin
School, and we believe his class was the first to be using the Raspberry
Pi in the United States.
He and a group of his 13-year-old pupils have just given a TEDx talk
called How Girls Should Serve Raspberry Pi. The girls here are
presenting the projects they’ve made with Raspberry Pi over this
semester, but there’s another important message here: we know that STEM
subjects are not just for boys, but we should recognise that not all
girls are the same, so our teaching approach is doomed if we decide that
the only way to get girls into engineering subjects is to “shrink it
and pink it”.
Keep watching — the projects get better and better. (Rolling backpack indicator lights FTW!)
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