Rails Girls - Get started with tech

The of Rails Grils aim is to give tools and a community for women to understand technology and to build their ideas. Theydo this by providing a great experience on building things and by making technology more approachable.

Learn sketching, prototyping, basic programming and get introduced to the world of technology. Rails Girls was born in Finland, but is nowadays a global, non-profit volunteer community. Welcome to join! Contact us or Follow us on twitter

First event, held in Helsinki in November 2010 got over 100 interested girls signed-up for the workshop.

Since then the free events have expanded to Shanghai, Singapore, Tallinn, Berlin, Krakow and many more attracting thousands of girls to the world of web building. Rails Girls aims to open up technology and make it more approachable for girls and women.

The weekend event is free and open to all enthusiastic girls and women. Rails for Girls wants to empower girls to build the capacity and acquire the tools to conquer the last online frontier.

All events are organized together with local partners. A list of our local coaches.

Rails Girls also open-sourced the guides to organizing events. You can find them at guides.railsgirls.com

The Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future program is awarding fellowships and supporting women academics in science and engineering from developing and emerging countries for their advanced graduate study at top universities abroad. The fellowships fund PhD or post-doctoral studies.

Link provides information on scholarships for women around the world

In partnership with TPT National Productions, SciGirls is a groundbreaking new TV show and interactive Web site that will transform the way tween girls look at science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The empowering series has the right formula to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers with an engaging combination of actual girls exploring real-world science and math alongside successful female mentors in the field.

The Women’s TechConnect Initiative is designed in partnership with Women in Technology honorees, WICT and SCTE to provide a mentoring relationship between senior and rising cable technology professionals to help educate and retain women in the technology fields of the cable industry.  This formal mentorship program will pair WIT honoree mentors, each of whom is a leader and innovator, alongside less-tenured, though high-potential, women in technology fields.  The goal of the program is to provide a crucial support system to better equip mentees to overcome workplace challenges, while helping them rise through the cable ranks until they themselves become the leaders and innovators.  WICT and SCTE will support the mentors/mentees by providing online resources and tools, underwriting event registrations and memberships, as well as a sense of community, as the designated mentees embark on their mentoring journey.

For more information, please contact:

SCTE: 
Cathy Oakes
SVP, Operations
140 Philips Road
Exton, PA 19341-1318
Phone: 610.594.7328
Fax: 610.363.2391
coakes@scte.org

WICT:
Parthavi Das
SVP, Strategic Alliances
14555 Avion Parkway, Ste. 250
Chantilly, VA 20151
Phone: 703.234.9803
Fax: 703.817.1595
pdas@wict.org

SoftBank Emerging Markets helps entrepreneurs in developing countries use established business models to start up locally adapted versions of some of the world's leading Internet companies.

Systers claims to be the world’s largest email community of technical women in computing. It was founded by Anita Borg in 1987 as a small electronic mailing list for women in “systems”. Today, Systers broadly promotes the interests of women in the computing and technology fields.

Pass-it-on Award applications are open to any woman over 18 years old in or aspiring to be in the fields of computing. Awards are open to women in all countries and range from $500.00 to $1000.00 USD. Applications covering a wide variety of needs and projects

Who said tech was boring, geeky, or not really helping others? As the United Nations’ agency for information and communication technologies (ICT), we think ICT is the most exciting area to get in to! So we will be working in partnership with lead players in the ICT, education and media industries to shift such misconceptions. To mark the first ever International Day of the Girl Child, we have launched the Tech Needs Girls Prize which targets girls from 9 to 18 as they start forming opinions of their place in technology and their choice for study and career paths.

Partners can tailor a competition to their specialty which gives girls around the world more options to get involved, gain confidence in their abilities, and learn first-hand how ICT can make a difference. The Prize will be awarded on Girls in ICT Day 2013.

The Prize forms part of ITU’s recently launched Tech Needs Girls campaign which aims to transform the myriad of scattered initiatives and organizational silos into a force for movement on the urgent issue of ensuring girls and women play a much more substantive role in the ICT sector and are better prepared for a life in technology.

Follow developments on the competitions and Prize via facebook (www.facebook.com/techneedsgirls) or check in with www.techneedsgirls.org

Technovation Challenge www.technovationchallenge.org   is a program of http://Iridescentlearning.org   (a 5013 nonprofit) in which high school girls are exposed to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) through designing and programming a mobile app. In Technovation Challenge, high school girls (ages 13-18) become inventors, designers, builders, and entrepreneurs of technology, rather than simply consumers.

The applied, project-based computer science and entrepreneurship curriculum teaches girls life skills such as identifying a problem, designing and testing a solution, collaborating with a team, and communicating to different audiences while reinforcing the academic concepts of digital representation of information, algorithmic thinking and programming, and the societal impact of information and information technology.

Girls are guided through an online curriculum and work in teams of five as they develop mobile phone applications. The teams are paired with a female mentor who guides them through the curriculum and acts as a positive female role model. At the end of the 12 weeks, teams present or pitch their app and business plan to a panel of experts. Regional winners will travel to the San Francisco, CA and compete at the Technovation World Pitch event for $10,000 in funding and support to complete the development of their app and release it on the market!

Over the past three years more than 800 girls in the United States (San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, and Boston) programmed 163 apps. We are opening the competition this season for global participation, with the goal of reaching 1,000 girls. The program will have a few in person activities depending on location in the fall and then run for 12 weeks from January to May 2013. The online curriculum will be available as a series of online open, modules that teach lessons about programming, developing an app, starting a company, and becoming a leader

There is no cost to participate in the program. The easiest way to get involved is to start a team, find out how! For more general information, and to contact us, visit our website  http://technovationchallenge.org

For more information, please check the following videos:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2IV24SB32ag
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mxRp2h5z3cE