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Girls Who Code Goes to Capitol Hill: Can Congress Help Solve the Gender Gap in Tech?

Edsurge

After finishing her undergraduate degree, Rosen later returned to school and earned an associate degree in computing and information technology, going on to work as a programmer and software developer for companies including Summa Corporation, Citibank and Southwest Gas. But Rosen, sitting alongside Sen.

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Shop class is grounded, high school aviation classes are taking flight

The Hechinger Report

By 2026, the industry will need to add an estimated 24,000 airline pilots and by 2027 it might be short as many as 40,000 mechanics. The district also plans to arrange visits to companies in Pittsburgh that use specialized drones. The market for drone pilots is expected to grow by 51.1 percent over the next four years.

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How 60 Minutes Oversimplified the Gender Gap and Overlooked Women in Tech

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The leaders of Girls Who Code , a nonprofit whose mission is to close the gender gap in tech, and littleBits , a New York-based hardware company that uses educational kits to teach kids how to use technology, each responded to the 60 Minutes segment—which draws about 11 million weekly viewers—in separate posts on Medium that went viral.

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Girls Who Code Founder Awarded McGraw Education Prize

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And there are so many more companies out there. It's such an honor to be in the company of people who have made such a difference in our world by recognizing the power and the potential of our children. I’ve been in the company of amazing young women who are building incredible ideas and products to make our world better.

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Tech Groups Have Long Encouraged Girls to Pursue STEM. Could the Anti-DEI Wave End That?

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I remember telling my dad that I wanted to be an engineer of some sort, and he said, I think you should be a doctor because that's the only thing that girls can excel at in STEM. The push to dismantle DEI initiatives have already had ripple effects among organizations aimed at supporting and increasing the number of women in STEM careers.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

The work is also supported by companies including Apple, Google and Expedia, as well as education organizations including the CollegeBoard, Teach For America and STEMx.” Despite all the investment and marketing surrounding CS and STEM education, the results – enrollments and graduation rates – have been mixed at best.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” This stems from a protest at the University of Connecticut. ” I’ll be adding student loan company Quiklo to the ed-tech dead pool. “ Robots will replace teachers by 2027 ,” Futurism predicts. The company, which sells subscriptions to boxes full of kids’ activitites, has raised $7.33