Cyber 资源 for Women

Women bring essential creativity and passion to developing innovative solutions to problems in our world. 看 科技世界里的女孩 视频了解更多.

 
The 网络系统 Department at 体育菠菜大平台 is dedicated to tackling IT workforce deficit in Central Nebraska through initiatives to make young people in Central Nebraska more IT-career ready and through strategies designed to increase enrollment, 保留, and graduation of students, 其中包括妇女, since women are critically underrepresented at every career stage in IT. According to the National Center for Women & Information 技术, in 2012, women earned 12 percent of computer and information science bachelor’s degrees, down from 37 percent in 1985. Only 25% of the current IT workforce in the United States is female. 进一步, women are underrepresented at every career stage in the IT field, especially in positions of leadership, where only seven percent of CIOs are women.

The 网络系统 Department provides

  • Outreach activities for middle and high school students
  • Dedicated informational website materials
  • Professional networking opportunities for current 网络系统  students
  • Opportunities for 网络系统 students to develop their confidence and improve their technical and mentoring abilities
  • Attendance at annual Women in Computing Conferences (RMCWIC and MINKWIC)
  • 作为一个 National Center for Women in IT (NCWIT) Academic Alliance 成员, faculty and students have access to numerous resources including awards, mentoring opportunities, 会议, 和更多的.

The 网络系统 Department is also developing dual enrollment programs for high school students and working to 教育 local area middle and high school teachers to teach IT courses.

教育/Teaching sites dedicated to Women in CS/IT

  • College Success for women in STEM
  • 愿望 - 愿望 in Computing is a talent development pipeline initiative of the National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT) designed to increase women's meaningful participation in computing careers by providing encouragement, 可见性, 社区, leadership opportunities, 奖学金, and internships to high potential technically inclined young women.
  • Dot Diva - Young women with the power and passion to make a difference. They believe in the potential of computing to build a better world.
  • 会编程的女孩 -鼓舞人心的作品, 教育, and equip girls with the computing skills to pursue 21st century opportunities. 莱西玛·Saujani, founded 会编程的女孩 in 2011, to answer the question: "If you give girls technology, how can they change the world?" Successes from this program include girls who have created algorithms to detect cancer and a web site to teach computer skills in 32 languages.

Other sites dedicated to women in CS/IT