[MakeLV] Friday is Ada Lovelace Day.

[Josiah Ritchie]

Great, I added a pic from wikipedia and some seo. Thanks for adding that.

Feel free to post other stuff. Matthew and I took some pics that could
be used if you'd like to say something about your whiteboard work.

JSR/

On 10/7/11, Rob Roschewsk <rob at pabut.org> wrote:
> Great idea .. Thanks!
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Josiah Ritchie <josiah at josiahritchie.com>
> wrote:
>> I saw you signed up for an account on the blog and just bumped your
>> permissions to author. Feel free to publish this info there. I also make a
>> note on our twitter account @Make_LV.
>>
>> JSR/
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Rob Roschewsk <rob at pabut.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm sending this to all the Math and Science teachers I know.
>>>
>>> Friday is Ada Lovelace Day.
>>>
>>> Ada Lovelace is widely held to have been the first computer
>>> programmer. Close friends with inventor Charles Babbage, Lovelace was
>>> intrigued by his Analytical Engine and in 1842, she translated a
>>> description of it by Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea. Babbage
>>> asked her to expand the article, "as she understood [it] so well", and
>>> this was when she wrote several early 'computer programs'. Ada
>>> Lovelace died of cancer at 36, her potential tragically unfulfilled.
>>>
>>> Ada Lovelace Day aims to raise the profile of women in science,
>>> technology, engineering and maths (STEM) by encouraging people around
>>> the world to talk about the women whose work they admire. This
>>> international day of celebration helps people learn about the
>>> achievements of  women in STEM, inspiring others and creating new role
>>> models for young and old alike.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately women only hold about 24% of STEM jobs, however women in
>>> STEM jobs earn 33% more than those in non-STEM occupations, and the
>>> wage gap between men and women in STEM jobs is smaller than in other
>>> fields! (source:
>>>
>>> http://scienceprogress.org/2011/08/women-missing-out-on-high-paying-stem-jobs/
>>> )
>>>
>>> I encourage you to mention Ms. Lovelace as well as talk about other
>>> pioneers in the STEM world .... some thoughts:
>>>
>>> Madame Curie, famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity
>>>
>>> Rosalind Elsie Franklin, the TRUE discoverer of the Double Helix
>>> Structure of DNA ( and you thought it was Crick and Watson ;) )
>>>
>>> Sally Ride, first US Woman in space
>>>
>>> Limor Fried, (aka ladyada) an electrical engineer and owner of the
>>> electronics hobbyist company, Adafruit Industries. Also the first
>>> woman engineer to appear on the cover of WIRED MAGAZINE.
>>>
>>> Here is a link the the Finding Ada website: http://findingada.com/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers!!
>>>
>>> --> Rob
>>>
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