The ChickTech: High School program finds, engages, and supports girls who do not identify themselves as technically oriented. We provide a year-long series of free opportunities for a cohort of 100 high school girls in each chapter. This year ChickTech partnered with Vision Service Plan (VSP) to provide college scholarships for ChickTech: High School alumni
By: Janice Levenhagen, CEO at ChickTech It’s 2017, yet women still face significant barriers when entering the technology sector. In fact, the ISACA conducted a survey on women in technology-based careers to discover why they are still underrepresented in the workplace. The results show there’s a lot of work that needs to be done: equal
By Mikala Vidal This summer, we lost STEM legend way too soon. Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian mathematician who was the only woman to win a Fields Medal, died of breast cancer at only 40 years old. It was a devastating loss, and we hope that Maryam’s legacy will continue to inspire girls worldwide, and encourage
It’s undeniable that 2017 has evolved into the year of bad ass chicks. DC Comics gave us the female-centric superhero movie we’ve all been craving with Wonder Woman, which quickly became the highest-grossing live-action movie directed by a woman. But while Wonder Woman’s presence onscreen is breaking records, females are still woefully underrepresented in the
Spring sprung, Oregon upset Kansas in the Midwest Regional NCAA basketball final, the Irish (and Irish-at-heart) drank all the beer their livers could handle, and – last but certainly not least – 31 days were dedicated to amazing, badass women everywhere during Women’s History Month. It was a jam-packed March, but that’s not all: a
The very first International Women’s Day was on March 8, 1909 in New York. It was organized by the Socialist Party of America in remembrance of the strike organized by the International Ladies’ Garment Workers union in 1908 for women to get equal pay as men. Since then, March 8 has been marked as International
