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How to encourage girls' interest in tech — Newsletter No.15
Hello! This is a special edition, as for the first time most of the suggestions in the newsletter have come from you directly!
Keep sharing with us what your daughters like, we love hearing and reading about it :)
Let’s start!
👾 Build your own city
Townscaper is a fun and colorful game in which the goal is to build quaint island towns with curvy streets. Build small hamlets, soaring cathedrals, canal networks, or sky cities on stilts. Block by block. There is no goal and no competition.
👩🏽💻 A comic book
A series of comic books featuring a woman engineer, empowering curiosity and adventurousness. You can download the pdf for free on their website and here are quick links for all three parts: Map Trap, Photo Finished, and Code Cheat.
⌚️ Gadgets for Barbies
If your daughter is still into Barbies or any other dolls, help her boost doll’s tech life by building gadgets as accessories — a smartwatch, tablet, and even VR headset. Check out the video tutorial here. This activity is a great way towards fostering the mindset that women like new tech as well and use it in their daily lives and jobs.
📱Problem solving puzzle
Brilliant is an app with problem-solving excersises to help learn key ideas and concepts. It’s a something parents and kids can work on together, and as we heard from you — you’ll be astonished how sometimes your kid gets it faster than you.
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🙋♀️ Rolemodel of the week
Melanie Perkins has become one of the world’s youngest (and most successful) women to run a tech company. This 35-year-old is the founder of Canva, a company that makes it easy for people to create beautiful graphics online. She was born in Australia but moved to San Francisco, USA when she was 10 years old. To read more about her story, which is a suited for kids, check out this article.
Bonus points — In September 2021 Melanie and her partner pledged to give away 30% of Canva, accounting for the “vast majority” of their stake in the company. Their equity, which is roughly valued at $12 billion, would put the young co-founders on track to create Australia’s largest charitable foundation.
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If you liked this, please share it with parents who want to mindfully prepare their daughters for the new digital age. We try hard to curate the best content and helping us reach more readers really means a lot ❤️