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October 7, 2014

EDUCATION

The Global STEM Alliance: Collaborative Education and Mentoring to Solve the “STEM Paradox”

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The New York Academy of Sciences has recently released a report that redefines the global STEM crisis as a “STEM paradox”: there are sufficient numbers of STEM graduates, but low numbers of grads who are actually prepared for work, “brain drain” from developing countries and the lack of women in STEM fields makes it impossible […]

April 24, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Celebrating Girls in Technology – The Power of Mentorship

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Today is International Girls in ICT Day and Cisco has been celebrating all month long by hosting fun and instructive mentoring events that have been designed to help to...

How Women Lead In the Workplace

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Long after she made it cool to be a woman in high tech, Sheryl Sandberg is now making it popular to talk about...

May 13, 2013

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

Cisco Women and TechGirlsUK

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A Twitter success story Theresa Russell teaches Computing to teenagers in Lancashire, England.  We found each other on Twitter.  I was looking to better understand the newest trends in #EdTech.  She needed a female mentor for an international competition she had talked five students into joining.  We soon formed a team of teachers, mentors, and […]