We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream.
From Megan Smith
It's so interesting that when somebody's pregnant, we are obsessed with knowing the gender of the child so we can figure out what we need to buy that child, what the present would be. Like we're pre-programming the kid before they were born.
I've been working on the lost history of technical women.
There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more.
Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you.
Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.
I actually think that working in the federal government, or state or local, is one of the most significant things that a technical person can do.
The American government will be whatever we all make of it.
The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.
I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.
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