Recommendations: Fun things to do to engage your daughter's interest in tech
How to encourage girls' interest in tech — Newsletter No.21
We hope our last issue motivated you to stay on track and proactively engage your daughters’ interest in technology. Therefore, welcome to one more recommendation week, here to help you do exactly that!
Let’s dig in:
📕Abby invents the folding bot
Abby and her brother Miko set out on their quest to create a folding machine to help their mother with the laundry. The children follow all the steps of the engineering design process to create a functioning machine including interviewing stakeholders, conducting research, brainstorming, and following through on the iterative design process. The children’s machine doesn’t work on the first try and they must go back and redesign their machine until it works, introducing children to the concept of iterative design. Check it out here.
🎬 For parents to watch
CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap is a documentary film by Robin Hauser that explores the lack of female and minority software engineers and the reasons for this gap. Featuring interviews with programmers and tech entrepreneurs from popular tech brands, the film poses the question: What would society gain from having more minorities and women in tech? Not only does the documentary empower more female and ethnic programmers, the film also features efforts to produce a more diverse programming community. It is also one of the best tech movies that show ways how everyone in the tech community can close this gender gap.
✍️ 3D Printing Pen
We heard from our readers that they love their daughters love 3D printing pens and that they are a great intro into the world of 3D modeling and printing. Some of them are customizing their glasses, and make small figurines or jewelry. There are many kinds, here is one on Amazon, and most of the toy shops have them as well. And here are some cool recommendations of all the things you can make with the.
🎲 Your own board game
And, here is something you can do right away, with materials you have (in large quantities) at home. Make your own board game while helping your kid(s) practice computational thinking. All you need is a pen, paper, and this guide.
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