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February 9, 2010 by thewomenscircuit
CiNPA Tech Fair will be Saturday, April 24 2010
February 7, 2010 by thewomenscircuit
CiNPA Tech Fair will be Saturday, April 24 2010
CiNPA, Cincinnati Networking Professionals’ Association, is presenting its Second Annual Tech Fair on Saturday April 24, 2010. You should attend this Tech Fair if you are an IT Professional, IT Influencer or IT Decision Maker.
There will be a full day of break out room presentations on scads of topics, many of which will be of interest to YOU. In addition, there will be a Vendor Hall packed with Sponsors from the IT world. We plan to have approximately 30 vendor sponsors participating in this event – attendance is expected to be from 150 to 200 IT Professionals.
This event is being marketed to IT Professionals in the Greater Cincinnati Area, and near by cities including Indianapolis, Columbus, Dayton, Louisville, Lexington and Cleveland.
Help needed with FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Tournament
January 29, 2010 by thewomenscircuitiSPACE is looking for more volunteers for both Fri Feb 12 and Sat Feb 13 to assist with the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), a robotics competition for high school students.
We will provide dinner for Fri volunteers and provide breakfast and lunch for Saturday volunteers. I have attached the volunteer positions as well as background on both FTC and iSPACE. Note: STEM professional or experience is not needed.
Please contact Linda Neenan <lneenan@ispacescience.org> for more information or to sign up to volunteer.
Invitation to TechFest – Feb 13th & 14th
January 29, 2010 by thewomenscircuitTechFest is free family fun with science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Its purpose is to motivate youth to study math and science in their school environment.
TechFest includes:
* Hands-on interactive exhibits
* Demonstrations and presentations
* Free CEU-approved teacher workshops
Details and downloadable flyer at http://www.ascdayton.org
Saturday, Feb. 13th & Sunday, Feb. 14th
Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio
Sponsored by the Affiliate Societies Council
Upcoming Middle School STEM outreach event
November 4, 2009 by thewomenscircuitThe University of Cincinnati Society of Women Engineers will be hosting the events for girls in 5th through 8th grade.
Earthquakes, Floods, Tornadoes! Oh My - November 14th
Ladies, Start Your Engines! – January 23, 2010
Take Apart a Toaster Day - March 13, 2010
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Elbows - May 8, 2010
After-school programs are a cost-effective way to boost student achievement, reduce juvenile crime and help overstressed working parents
October 20, 2009 by thewomenscircuitAfter-school programs are a cost-effective way to boost student achievement, reduce juvenile crime and help overstressed working parents. Yet a new study finds that the number of after-school slots continues to lag far behind parents’ demand. Even in these hard economic times, it should be possible to narrow the gap.
There is good news in the study — “America After 3” — by the Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group. It reports a big increase in the number of schoolchildren participating in after-school programs: 8.4 million youngsters compared with 6.5 million in 2004. Parents say they are generally satisfied with the programs their children attend.
But the most striking and disturbing finding is the large number of latchkey children — children left alone and unsupervised at the end of the regular school day: 15.1 million — more than a quarter of America’s schoolchildren and an 800,000 increase from 2004. That number includes 4 percent of elementary school students and 30 percent of middle school students who are on their own until their parents return home.
Parents of 18.5 million students say they would enroll their children in an after-school program if one were available. These numbers represent a huge missed opportunity. A majority of publicly financed after-school programs serve low-income students. They offer help with schoolwork, sports activities and other enrichment known to translate into improved school attendance and higher graduation rates and lower rates of teenage pregnancy, drinking, delinquency and drug use.
During the 2008 campaign, then-Senator Barack Obama promised that he would double the financing for after-school programs under the No Child Left Behind Act. His budget plan unveiled in February called for no increase in the current $1.1 billion appropriation. The House has approved a spending bill that adds another $50 million for after-school programs. The Senate should at least agree to that.
President Obama, his education secretary, Arne Duncan, and Congress must all acknowledge that a lot more is needed — and quickly come up with a plan to increase financing for quality after-school programs.
Why do many women execs leave?
October 19, 2009 by thewomenscircuitXavier University business professor tries to find out
The turnover rate for women in top positions was 33 percent, but for men it was 19 percent. And it was even higher in functions such as law, marketing, research and development, and operations.
… women in these positions were actually getting better positions in different organizations and perhaps becoming CEOs. Women became very sought-after in government and private business. Some became deans in big universities.
And many women started their own companies. Their family was the reason they left the workforce, but they did not want to just take care of their families. They used the opportunities and flexibility to start their own organizations.
Woman wins Nobel Prize in Economics for first time ever
October 15, 2009 by thewomenscircuitFor the first time ever, a woman has won the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Elinor Ostrom, a seventy-six year old professor of political science at Indiana University won the $1.4 million dollar prize for her research into how natural resources or “common property can be successfully managed by user associations”. She shares the prize with fellow American, Oliver Williamson, of the University of California, Berkeley.
Lunch buddies needed for 11/13/09
October 8, 2009 by thewomenscircuitOn Friday, November 13, 2009, over 2500 girls at 15 Ohio college
campuses will gather for a fabulous day of hand-on activities ad they
explore the opportunities in technology. More information can be found
on the website: http://www.weareit.org
Locally, Miami University Hamilton will host 200 girls for an exciting
day of learning.
The Women’s Circuit is proud to support this event for the third year.
We are looking for women lunch buddies. Basically sit at the tables
with the girls and guide the conversation, sharing your experiences and
insight.
To become a lunch buddy or support this event, please contact Katie
Bauer <bauerka@muohio.edu> or call (513) 785-3173
Women use social media more than men: what’s news orgs’ response?
October 6, 2009 by thewomenscircuitNews organizations, take note: More women than men are using social media, a new study says.
The study, from Information is Beautiful, uses Google Ad Planner numbers to come up with its conclusion that more women than men use many popular social networks. Digg stands out because 64 percent of users are men. LinkedIn and YouTube are tied, genderwise.
You can view that data yourself, but here are some findings I found interesting:
— Twitter: 57 percent women users.
— Facebook: 57 percent women users.
— Flickr: 55 percent women users.
