{"id":2310,"date":"2012-10-20T15:02:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T22:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2012-10-20T21:36:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T04:36:37","slug":"getting-more-girls-into-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/20\/getting-more-girls-into-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting More Girls Into STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m participating in this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/seattleedu.startupweekend.org\/\">Seattle EDU Startup Weekend<\/a> (follow at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23SWSEAedu&amp;src=hash\">#SWSeaEDU<\/a>) and I&#8217;ve joined a group working on a solution to get more girls into STEM by catching them early and getting them excited about learning programming basics.<\/p>\n<p>We need your help. Please answer a few questions to help validate our idea. What we&#8217;re building is an app game where young girls can learn basic programming skills by maneuvering a pet using arrow type commands. Eventually they can buy a real version of their pet that will respond to the game commands! (Think lego mindstorms meets virtual pets! A fun, engaging, easy to learn game with a real pet component.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/embeddedform?formkey=dHh4WENQdVR2R1k4bnZBWXprV1pOV2c6MQ\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" width=\"550\" height=\"2300\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m participating in this year&#8217;s Seattle EDU Startup Weekend (follow at #SWSeaEDU) and I&#8217;ve joined a group working on a solution to get more girls into STEM by catching them early and getting them excited about learning programming basics. We need your help. Please answer a few questions to help validate our idea. 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