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http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/date/20080521 Wednesday May 21, 2008

MAGIC at Girls' Middle School

Three of us from the new MAGIC program presented at The Girls' Middle School (GMS) in Mountain View, CA today. GMS is partnering with MAGIC on our first pilot program. MAGIC (More Active Girls In Computing) is a mentorship program between very senior technical women at Sun Microsystems, Google, NASA and other organizations and middle school girls. MAGIC was kicked off at the October 2007 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. (MAGIC has just been accepted to present again at Hopper 2008.) We want to foster in these girls a positive attitude towards computing and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).

Hosted by Michelle Friend Hutton (GMS Technology Director), Ira Pramanick, Meenakshi Kaul-Basu, and I presented at a GMS school assembly this afternoon to tell the girls all about it. We passed out MAGIC pencils imprinted with our web address. There was much trading of pencils until all the girls got the colors they preferred.

interior view from the front door WP668 caboose photo: copyright 2008 Katy Dickinson

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Posted at 11:13PM May 21, 2008 by katysblog in Hopper - Anita Borg Institute  | 

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