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By: Jayashree Iyer The technology sector has a history of lacking in gender diversity, with only 25% of its workforce being women. Even...

This month's Staff Spotlight feature is one of our Graduate Research Assistants, Ali Roberts. Ali started with CGEST in August 2021,...

This month's Staff Spotlight feature is one of our undergraduate researchers and Junior in the Computer Science program, Pranati Guduru....

By: Ali Roberts The dominant narrative has been that the gender gap in technology career fields has been slowly closing over the years,...

By Christine Leavitt Violence and tragedy in Afghanistan have shaken the world during these last few weeks as the Taliban has returned to...

ASU’s Dr. Tracy Perkins will be presenting research on Wikipedia’s racialized knowledge politics at the American Sociological...

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...

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...

By: Dr. Toni Kaui On Saturday 20 February, nearly 80 traditionally under anticipated girls, in grades 8 through 12, hailing from Hawaiʻi,...

Kaylie’s Black History Month Project Black History month 2021, no different than any other month, I continue to prioritize educating...

Contributing guest blog post by Rachel Maas At the Center for WorkLife Law, we had the opportunity as part of WoCCC to study bias...

Written by: Dr. Christine O'Donnell CGEST’s CompuGirls programs were a main draw for me to join CGEST as a Postdoctoral Researcher. My...

The Center for Bio-mediated & Bio-inspired Geotechnics is seeking local high school students to participate in a 5-week paid summer...

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...

A few days after the highly publicized attack on the U.S. Capitol, education organizations thoughtfully and rapidly provided lists for...

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...

We want to congratulate our very own Dr. Tara Nkrumah on her latest publication in Cultural Studies of Science Education. This piece...

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...

There are so many inspiring, influential, and impactful women in technology so we wanted to highlight a few from Hackernoon's 2021 list...

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'....