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Updates:

• Gender Chip Reaches Out @ SWE Regional Conferences

  For the first two weekends in March, the Gender Chip Project led successful workshops at two SWE Regional Conferences -- Region A in Reno and Region E in Richmond. Click to hear an interview from Richmond and see the group picture from Reno.

   

• January IGNITE Event a Success!

  On Saturday, January 12, 2008, Carola Dopps coordinated a very successful event for IGNITE using the Gender Chip film and subsequent panel discussion to illustrate the challenges for young women exploring the STEM fields.  

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What is it like to be a young woman training in college for a career in the high stakes professions of science, math, engineering and technology?

For every new generation it takes key movements along the way to make a grand leap forward into professional adulthood.

When gender collides with our cultural assumptions about who can flourish in these fields, how are young women changing the real and practical terms of engagement?

The Gender Chip Project offers both a documentary and companion materials designed to assist teachers, parents and mentors who are encouraging girls to the pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.