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The Importance of Community for Women in Tech
By: Jayashree Iyer The technology sector has a history of lacking in gender diversity, with only 25% of its workforce being women. Even...
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CGEST Staff
Nov 22, 20212 min read
Staff Spotlight: Ali Roberts
This month's Staff Spotlight feature is one of our Graduate Research Assistants, Ali Roberts. Ali started with CGEST in August 2021,...
CGEST Staff
Oct 22, 20212 min read
Staff Spotlight: Pranati Guduru
This month's Staff Spotlight feature is one of our undergraduate researchers and Junior in the Computer Science program, Pranati Guduru....
CGEST Staff
Sep 22, 20213 min read
Mentoring and the STEM Gender Gap
By: Ali Roberts The dominant narrative has been that the gender gap in technology career fields has been slowly closing over the years,...
CGEST Staff
Aug 31, 20212 min read
Unity Through Robotics: Afghan Girls Robotics Team
By Christine Leavitt Violence and tragedy in Afghanistan have shaken the world during these last few weeks as the Taliban has returned to...
Guest Blogger
Aug 5, 20213 min read
Wikipedia and The Outsider Within
ASU’s Dr. Tracy Perkins will be presenting research on Wikipedia’s racialized knowledge politics at the American Sociological...
CGEST Staff
Jul 23, 20211 min read
Social Robots Camp Wrap Up
Written by: Rachel Ware From July 6 through the 9th the Cozmo camp took place on Zoom, with 4 great middle school students who are a part...
CGEST Staff
Jun 25, 20214 min read
GIT mentors recap their week
As the final day of the 2021 Girls in Tech Camp comes to a close we asked all the staff and mentors what they thought of the week they...
CGEST Staff
Apr 26, 20213 min read
Cybersecurity Camp Wrap-Up
By: Dr. Toni Kaui On Saturday 20 February, nearly 80 traditionally under anticipated girls, in grades 8 through 12, hailing from Hawaiʻi,...
Dr. Tara Nkrumah
Mar 29, 20212 min read
A Defining Moment
Kaylie’s Black History Month Project Black History month 2021, no different than any other month, I continue to prioritize educating...
Guest Blogger
Mar 2, 20213 min read
Workplace Bias and Women of Color in Computing
Contributing guest blog post by Rachel Maas At the Center for WorkLife Law, we had the opportunity as part of WoCCC to study bias...
CGEST Staff
Feb 9, 20212 min read
CompuGirls: Demonstrating STEM Education Can Be Better
Written by: Dr. Christine O'Donnell CGEST’s CompuGirls programs were a main draw for me to join CGEST as a Postdoctoral Researcher. My...
CGEST Staff
Feb 2, 20212 min read
Calling all STEM-focused high school students!
The Center for Bio-mediated & Bio-inspired Geotechnics is seeking local high school students to participate in a 5-week paid summer...
CGEST Staff
Jan 26, 20211 min read
The Hill We Climb
That is the name of the poem that the nation's first Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman recited at the inauguration of President Joe Biden...
Dr. Kimberly Scott
Jan 25, 20213 min read
Forward Thinking for Our Girls
A few days after the highly publicized attack on the U.S. Capitol, education organizations thoughtfully and rapidly provided lists for...
CGEST Staff
Jan 23, 20212 min read
For the Kids - Rocket Balloon Experiment
By: Alexus Robertson As a working mother it is hard to be creative with activities for the kids. I know most of us have so much on our...
CGEST Staff
Jan 21, 20212 min read
A Day of Reckoning for the White Academy
We want to congratulate our very own Dr. Tara Nkrumah on her latest publication in Cultural Studies of Science Education. This piece...
CGEST Staff
Jan 20, 20212 min read
Staff Spotlight: Elaine Arrieta (Bohn)
Elaine Arrieta-Bohn is CGEST's Education Outreach Specialist and has been in the position for almost a full year. She came on to the team...
CGEST Staff
Jan 19, 20213 min read
Impactful Women in Tech
There are so many inspiring, influential, and impactful women in technology so we wanted to highlight a few from Hackernoon's 2021 list...
CGEST Staff
Jan 12, 20213 min read
For the Love of Chess
Chess may seem like just a game to some people, but for others like Principal Thomas-El in Delaware, the game is 'the great equalizer'....
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