RED CHAIR CAMPAIGN!
Previously on Roommates, classes, and perfect ramen:
I am a media intern at a local start-up called VentureLab, I write for two separate blogs, and I continue to work on my crowdfunding fashion venture.
This week is the national Sit With Me campaign to support women in the tech industry! And here at Trinity our TUWIC club (Trinity University Women In Computing) took part and set up a red chair for students and faculty to sit in and take a picture with to show their support.
Sometimes you have to sit down to stand up for women in computing! The red chair represents that there should be more seats at the table for women in the technology industry. This is a big deal when you look at the gender gap in the tech industry. There is a stigma that programming and technical positions are for men, but historically computer science was very much women's work (especially when you go all the way to the beginning of programming and see that Ada Lovelace wrote the first ever algorithm intended to be completed by a machine!). Not to say that women should over take men in industry, we (and this campaign) are actually focused on increasing support for women in the field already and encouraging girls to join CS.
Unfortunately this week has also been the coldest week all semester and sometimes standing outside with the chair has been a little miserable. However, it has led to some pretty spectacular photo ops.
I am a media intern at a local start-up called VentureLab, I write for two separate blogs, and I continue to work on my crowdfunding fashion venture.
This week is the national Sit With Me campaign to support women in the tech industry! And here at Trinity our TUWIC club (Trinity University Women In Computing) took part and set up a red chair for students and faculty to sit in and take a picture with to show their support.
Sometimes you have to sit down to stand up for women in computing! The red chair represents that there should be more seats at the table for women in the technology industry. This is a big deal when you look at the gender gap in the tech industry. There is a stigma that programming and technical positions are for men, but historically computer science was very much women's work (especially when you go all the way to the beginning of programming and see that Ada Lovelace wrote the first ever algorithm intended to be completed by a machine!). Not to say that women should over take men in industry, we (and this campaign) are actually focused on increasing support for women in the field already and encouraging girls to join CS.
Unfortunately this week has also been the coldest week all semester and sometimes standing outside with the chair has been a little miserable. However, it has led to some pretty spectacular photo ops.
I even got to put my social media skills to work and created a TUWIC Facebook page to post all of our photos from this week.
Overall this has been a fun (albeit freezing) week of friends, tech talk, and spreading awareness about women in technology.
- Grace
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