MS DigiGirlz and Barbie

Barbie has a assorted resume — she’s been a doctor, a abecedary and a chef; she’s raced cars for NASCAR and accomplished Shamu for Sea World. Now, Barbie can add computer architect to her account of careers. But Computer Architect Barbie is in the minority. In the absolute world, women acquire alone 18 percent of all computer science degrees, alike admitting they represent added than 50 percent of the citizenry on U.S. academy campuses. And alone 10 percent of American engineers today are women.

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As allotment of its efforts to abode this alterity through DigiGirlz program, Microsoft abutting with Mattel and Babe Scouts of Northern California to animate girls to accompany careers in computer science. On Wednesday, added than 200 scouts, association leaders, authoritative admiral and advisers of Microsoft came to Microsoft in Silicon Valley to the Acme DigiGirlz.

At the summit, a chic of added than 20 scouts completed a computer and an online training advance to acquire his aggregation logos Smarts. Female advisers of Microsoft were on duke to advice and allocution about their experience. Subsequently, a accumulation of women in the technology of government, academia and batten about best practices to animate girls and women to accompany careers in technology, and Lisa Brummel, arch carnality admiral of Human Resources at Microsoft, appear a abiding accord with the babe Scouts of Northern California to abutment their Girls Go Tech program

Other speakers were Lucy Sanders, CEO and co-founder of the National Center for Women and Advice Technology, Elaine Alquist, Senator of the accompaniment of California, Christy Quinlan, arch as arch of accompaniment information, accompaniment California; Maya Haridas, arch development architect of analysis at Microsoft Research, and Marie Wilson, architect and admiral of The White House Project.