Girl Scouts will soon have new, up-to-date badges for their vests and sashes, aimed at promoting financial literacy, public policy and website design. Learn more.
Posts Tagged ‘media literacy’
Girls Scouts Get New, Updated Badges; Reflect Science & Technology
In Camp, Conferences, Education, Girls, Leadership, Media & Technology on October 16, 2011 at 3:44 pmWomen & Mobile: An Empowering Partnership
In Education, Health & Wellness, Leadership, Media & Technology on October 16, 2011 at 3:39 pmAccording to a report published by the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and the GSMA, Women and Mobile: A Global Opportunity, cell phones improve women’s lives: 93 percent of female mobile phone users feel safer with a phone, 85 percent feel more independent, and 41 percent use their phones to increase their income and professional opportunities. Moreover, closing the gender gap is not only good for women and development, it’s good for business. Adding 300 million women subscribers could generate $13 billion in immediate incremental revenue for mobile phone operators. Such statistics indicate that there is much to be gained by empowering women through mobile technology. Learn more.
Daughters & Role Models
In Education, Girls, Media & Technology on June 27, 2010 at 8:48 pmA recent Boston.com blog called In the Parenthood offered ten tips for parents for talking to their daughters about the importance of role models, media literacy and self confidence.
Dream it. Design it. Build it.
In Conferences, Education, Media & Technology, Uncategorized on May 17, 2010 at 8:11 amOn Saturday, May 22, 2010 D.C. FIRST Robotics – Washington DC-Area in partnership with Archbishop Carroll High School and DCRobotics presents Scratch Day!
Scratch is open source animation software from MIT great for age 7 (or early readers) through adult. It is a free computer programming resource that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web. At this event, everyone is welcome to try out Scratch and learn about the on-line exchange. You can join Scratch enthusiasts in the Washington DC-area to meet and learn from each other! All interested students, parents and teachers are invited.
More information is available at www.dc-first.org.
Program Spotlight: TechGYRLS of North Dakota
In Camp, Education, Girls, Leadership, Media & Technology, Uncategorized on April 27, 2010 at 8:31 amIn North Dakota, the TechGYRLS program encourages young girls in the Fargo area to get involved in the science, technology, engineering and math fields.
The collaborative effort of the YWCA Cass Clay, NDSU Society of Women Engineers and Microsoft Fargo has offered girls in grades four through seven a chance to explore technology. Student mentors from the North Dakota State University Society of Women Engineers work with the girls on projects such as building robots, catapults and contraptions to protect a dropped egg.
The goal of TechGYRLS is to help girls develop the confidence to use technology and discover links between science and math. The program was developed by the YWCA USA in 1997 after seeing the need to strengthen girls’ interest and competency in computer literacy as it has become a key job skill in nearly every profession today. In 2008, the YWCA was awarded a grant from Microsoft to expand the program, including a summer camp, Saturday session in Spring and Fall, and providing opportunities in the areas of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics).
A Healthy Media for Youth
In Girls, Government, Media & Technology, Uncategorized on April 20, 2010 at 11:21 amTammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) have introduced “the Healthy Media for Youth Act to “authorize grants to promote media literacy and youth empowerment programs, to authorize research on the role and impact of depictions of girls and women in the media, to provide for the establishment of a National Task Force on Girls and Women in the Media…” Read more.
