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Continue reading →: Happy 2014!I’m thinking of revitalizing this blog. It’s a new year and fresh starts are always a good thing, right? I could say it all started with the “Zero to Hero” series by the folks at WordPress. But truthfully, they are helping me do what I’ve been yearning to do for…
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Continue reading →: Girls in Children’s LiteratureThere was a study conducted by Janice McCabe at Florida State University in 2011. She looked at over 6,000 children’s books from the past century and found that central characters in the books were female in less than one third. How does one counter this trend? Well, it seems other…
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Continue reading →: When Women are Science ReportersI don’t know whether to scream or sigh about this NPR story. Actually, I am very impressed with Emily Graslie, a science reporter who now works at the Chicago Field Museum and created a few videos to go along with this story. She is the host of “The Brain Scoop”…
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Continue reading →: Grant Program Outreach for Middle School GirlsNow here’s a great idea! If your middle school is trying to support girls to learn and love technology, there’s a grant program that can help. It’s sponsored by the National Center for Women in IT. The program is called AspireIT and not only is NCWIT involved, there are a…






