Program highlights IT careers for girls from Holyoke
More than a dozen girls from the Holyoke chapter of Girls Incorporated will visit campus Friday, Aug. 8 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. to tour information technology (IT) workplaces and learn about computer-related careers. The girls are participating in a national program called “Build IT” that is designed to tap into the curiosity of girls between the ages of 9 and 15 about design and communication technology.
The visit has been arranged by the Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology (CAITE), based in the Computer Science Department, along with the Academic Computing unit of the Office of Information Technologies. Girls Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring girls to seek education and meet physical and intellectual challenges.
The girls will be shown a variety of computing careers including instructional design and faculty support, video editing and digital photography, media lab management and Web communications management. Laura Yahn, coordinator of instructional design and faculty support in Academic Computing at OIT and four additional staff members talk to the girls and explain the various IT jobs.
The girls will also meet with Beverly Woolf, professor of Computer Science, and Evelyn Barney in the Center for Knowledge Communications lab in the computer science department. They will be introduced to web design and see a demonstration of the lab’s intelligent tutor project, where computerized tutors respond to students and adjust to their emotional state by using an array of sensors.
August 3, 2008.
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