girls education
10-Year-Old Roboticist Awarded Paris Innovation Fellowship
The older I get, the more resentful I feel each time I hear a story about some young person making good. I’ve long left behind the age by which Alexander…
STEM Divas Gets Young Girls Interested in 3D Printing and Other Technology
There’s been a lot of debate on how to get young girls more involved in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) curriculum. There’s some controversy about the practice of…
On the 30th Anniversary of the Challenger Disaster, Four Women in Science Honor the Legacy of the Crew
Thirty years ago today, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. 73 seconds later, it broke apart in midair, leading to the deaths of all seven of…
Looking for Diversity in 3D Printing by Amping Up the Pink
The gap in numbers between men and women in the 3D printing industry is pretty wide. The reasons behind this gap and the means to address it are far from…
DigiVita is Using Blender to Teach Young Girls How to Code
While gender parity in the tech industry as a whole is still a long way off for many sectors, there have been some (minor) successes in bring more women into…
Integrating 3D Printing Education into a Curriculum for Girls in Africa
The Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF) is a global not-for-profit created in 2000. The goal of its creation is to partner with low-income communities in the US as well as…
Japanese Design Studio YOY Creates Embroidered Signage Using 3D Printing
The walls appeared to be covered in embroidery at one display at Tokyo Designer’s Week 2014. But why? It’s a story that takes some history to understand. Embroidery is a…
Jewliebots Strives to Interest Girls in Programming and 3D Printing
Do we have to do something different in order to get girls interested in 3D tech? Graduate students Sara Chipps and Maria Paula Saba, at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications…
