Weekly suggestions: activities, courses and fun
How to encourage girls' interest in tech — Newsletter No.9
Hi! Get ready for new suggestions on how to make your daughter, cousin, or student more interested in tech!
🙋♀️ Tech courses, for girls only!
Check out Emplab, an online community that provides meaningful education while preparing young girls early for the big league and high-growth digital skills.
🔎 Sound detective
This is a game you can play with your kid, or you can engage their friends as well. Investigate the sounds and vibrations of different objects and try to match them to their corresponding recorded graphs in the app. Challenge each other’s data science skills in this fun game and exploration of sound! All you need is a smartphone and storage space for one cool free app, Arduino Science Journal App, which you can use for other fun activities as well. Check it out here.
🎼 Make your own instrument
Build a musical instrument with only a shoebox, rubber bands, popsicle sticks, and duct tape. Click here for the tutorial and have fun! And, you have an extra incentive to eat some more ice cream before the summer is gone :)
👩🏽💻👩🏿🔬👩🦽Role models!
If/Then is a collection of role models in various areas of women in STEM, it’s fully searchable, so you can always look for examples when you need them.
Why it’s important to help our kids develop diverse skills from early age, especially girls? This was the topic of our previous newsletter, if you haven’t read it, check it out here and get some extra motivation for encouraging your girls interest in tech!
Thanks for reading! See you next week! 🙌
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