by, for, and about women in science, technology, engineering, & math

Are you a woman? Are you a Geek? She’s Geeky is for you! Join us for an UNConference of amazing people, amazing discussions, great presentations.

She’s Geeky 10 – The 5th Bay Area Event January 27-29, 2012 Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043 www.shesgeeky.org Follow us on Twitter.

Women attending She’s Geeky events find inspiration and gain self confidence to pursue or continue on STEM career paths because they are given the opportunity to present their work, often for the first time, discuss critical issues and build peer networks for support.

We have hosted 10 successful events in the last five years around the country, inclusive of women of all ages who self-identify as geeks. We attract women from a broad spectrum of technological specialties, professions, industries, levels of expertise, and across generations.

Instead of a pre-planned agenda, the agenda is created live the day of the event by all the geek women who attend. Join us!

Register today: http://shesgeeky10-eorg.eventbrite.com/

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The Midwest Girls Collaborative Project is holding its 2010 Fall Forum, Saturday, October 23, at the Convocation Center of Northern Illinois University in conjunction with STEMfest. The collaboration is composed of people and organizations in Illinois that believe in maximizing their impact on increasing the number of girls in the STEM fields by collaborating with each other. We would like to invite all in the region who are interested in working together to increase girls’ interest in the STEM fields to join us for a day of networking, learning about past mini-grant projects and how to apply for the upcoming mini-grant round. http://www.stemfest.niu.edu/stem/fest/MWGCP.shtml

This weekend I’m going to some of the LibrePlanet events — I met some great ladies at the women in free software dinner last night, and tomorrow we’ll talk more about ways to increase women’s participation in the free software community.

I also gave my first technical presentation yesterday! I gave an introduction to WordPress talk. I was definitely pretty nervous and didn’t know what to expect with this presentation — I can tell that I still have a lot to learn about giving effective presentations, but overall it went pretty well and I am definitely glad I took advantage of this opportunity!

Some links of interest this week:

• Under the Microscope’s “Message 2 a Younger Me” series has collected a bunch of interesting stories
• They also collected information on Women’s History Month events that are science-related
• Lisa Barone at Outspoken Media speaks out against women in tech cutting each other down
• Ada Lovelace Day t-shirts!
• Nola at DevChix blogs about her experiments with remote pair programming