Promoting the
advancement of
women in computing
professions Twin City
Connections
Next Meeting: Volume 2, Issue 5 January 2011
Personal Branding
Making a Difference in Education
Presented by:
Mark Hosmann
Although these two TPT programs focus on engineering and math, the conversation
is relevant to those members of AWC who are interested in increasing the number of
Thursday, Feb. 17, 2010 females who choose computing careers.
- 5:30 PM Networking
- 6:00 PM Presentation
Dr. Mae Jemison, who
Byerly’s Ridgedale
In the program Taking
Steps to Improve STEM
Taking Steps to speaks in the program
Event Room
13081 Ridgedale Drive Education, local business Improve STEM Our Future Prosperity, is
Minnetonka, MN 55305 a role model for any girl
leaders discuss programs
for capturing kids’ inter-
Education who is interested in
ests. STEM education.
Inside this issue:
Here are some examples: Jemison is a doctor, a
dancer, and an astronaut,
Making a 1 Dr. Dennis Harvey from and the first woman of
Difference in MTS Systems explains color to travel into space.
Education what employees are do- Jemison talks about how
ing to mentor at-risk stu- to motivate students to
Tech Trends 2 dents and how they work learn about math and sci-
with teachers to bring ence.
STEM outreach to
In Transition 2 schools. Science Dr. Eric Jolly, from the
Science Museum of Min-
Teacher Tim Jump dis- Technology nesota, discusses the
cusses how he engages critical need to get our
The Scoop on
Jobs
2
inner-city school children Engineering students interested in
with interactive math
processes, provides them Math STEM subjects.
Tech Humor 2 with hands-on exposure Dr. Jolly says we are at a
to math concepts, and crossroads and are fac-
challenges them to figure ing a critical urgency to
out how math and sci- get our young people in-
Meeting Recap 3 volved in the STEM disci-
ence work.
plines.
Wendy Underwood from
Social Media 3 Lockheed Martin explains He reports that Minne-
Watch their outreach to K-12 sota leads the nation in
students, in an effort to the decline of young
grow their future employ- women going in the engi-
Recommended 3
Reading
ees from today's stu- Our Future neering professions, say-
ing we are facing an
dents.
Prosperity “aspiration gap.”
January 2011 Page 2
Tech Humor
Tech Trends
The 2011 International Con- tablets, wireless 4G LTE, According to Engaget, cate- Truths for Mature
sumer Electronics Show
(CES) welcomed an esti-
connected TV technologies,
smart appliances – featured
gory leaders at this year’s
show included:
Humans
mated 140,000 attendees, for the first time in show his-
including approximately tory – and electric vehicles.” Motorola Atrix 4G smart-
30,00 from outside the US. phone Nothing is more dis-
Motorola Zoom tablet heartening than that
The largest consumer elec- Samsung 9 Series laptop
tronics show of its kind, moment during an ar-
Samsung Smart HDTV
manufacturers typically un-
veil new products during Microsoft Touch Mouse gument when you real-
CES. Ford Focus Electric ize you're wrong.
If not already available,
According to the CES web-
most products will be on the
site, “Major technology Speakers included top ex-
market by the end of the I totally take back all
trends emerged from the ecutives from Microsoft, Ver-
CES show floor including the izon, Audi, Samsung, Netflix, second quarter. those times I didn't
http://engt.co/he4kYO
want to nap when I
launch of more than 80 Cisco, Xerox, Time Warner,
Comcast, and Dreamworks.
was younger.
In Transition
Programming smartphone Was learning cursive
Looking for a job? There
may be an app for that. apps may not pay the really necessary?
bills, but developers can
make some money, albeit
With the proliferation of
perhaps $.99 at a time, I'm always slightly
smartphones and tablets,
opportunities for applica- and it is at least an oppor- terrified when I exit
tunity to challenge your
tion developers are ex-
programming skills and out of Word and it
ploding.
creativity. asks me if I want to
There are approximately
Check out How to Design
save any changes to my
134,000 iPhone applica-
tions, more than 100,000 Smartphone Apps ten-page technical re-
applications for Google’s (http://bit.ly/h8sL4J), or port that I swear I
Android operating system, the developer center for
and although fewer, thou- your smartphone did not make any
sands for the Blackberry. platform. changes to.
You never know when
Here’s the Scoop on Jobs
it will strike, but there
3M (9) Solution Design Grp (2)
comes a moment at
The following companies
have multiple technology http://bit.ly/b06IZm http://bit.ly/9P7XYW work when you know
jobs available as of 1-15-
Cargill (28)
that you just aren't
11. Tailwind Tech (4)
http://bit.ly/sZXbN http://bit.ly/cmn80Y going to do anything
The number of currently- productive for the
open technology positions Medtronic (11) Target (73)
is in parenthesis and a http://bit.ly/5zp4u9 http://bit.ly/cOWspl rest of the day.
link to each company’s
career website (shortened St. Jude Medical (19) United Health Grp (117)
using bit.ly) also is pro- http://bit.ly/cUtwOr http://bit.ly/alsBD Printing generously donated by:
vided. Postal Dispatch
Business Center
www.postaldispatch.com
January 2011 Page 3
Promoting the
advancement of
women in computing Meeting Recap
professions
2010-2011
Board of Directors
President:
Diane Cone
(president@awctc.org)
Program Co-VPs:
Cassie Frame & Heike Peters
(programs@awctc.org)
Communications VP:
Marti Rollins
(communications@awctc.org)
Finance VP:
Katie Bedney
(treasurer@awctc.org) Left to right: Jodie Dahlquist (foreground), Susan Holmen, Kathryn Thomson, and Cassie
Frame enjoy a game of Candyland at the Chatterbox Pub during the AWCTC
Web VP:
December social.
Jane Sheedy
(webteam@awctc.org) Social Media Watch
Membership VP: Social Media Watch
Heike Peters “For connecting more than half Zukerberg as a person or Face- Facebook, at last count, had
(membership@awctc.org) a billion people and mapping book as a social network, they 550 million members and that
the social relations among have to admit his story is an number continues to increase
National Representative: them, for creating a new sys- amazing one. at an unprecedented rate of
Heike Peters tem of exchanging information about 700,000 new users per
(nationalrep@awctc.org) and for changing how we live day.
our lives, Mark Elliot Zucker-
berg is TIME's 2010 Person of It is estimated that one out of
the Year.” every 12 people has a Face-
book account, spending a col-
Even people who don't use lective 700 billion minutes on
Facebook would have to admit the site every month.
that it has changed the way
many, if not most, people relate According to TIME, Facebook
and share information. is “a permanent fact of our
global social reality. We have
Zukerberg’s trajectory - from entered the Facebook age, and
Editor: Mary Jo Koplos Harvard student to Person of Mark Zuckerberg is the man
Come Write Inn, Ltd the Year in a short six years - who brought us here.“
cwi-ltd@comcast.net is mind boggling and, regard- http://bit.ly/eukMP6
Suggestions and submissions welcome.
less what anyone thinks about
WWW.AWCTC.ORG Recommended Reading
Mojo: How to Get It, How “Mojo is the moment when
to Keep It, How to Get It we do something that's
Back If You Lose It was purposeful, powerful, and
recommended by Anna positive and the rest of the
Twin Cities Association Boeder of Solution Design world recognizes it. This
of Women in Computing Group (SDG). book is about that moment
- and how we can create it
Boeder reports that the in our lives, maintain it,
book club at SDG very and recapture it when we
much enjoyed reading and need it.”
discussing this book.
Amazon.com