After listening to a presentation on the dwindling number of women in computer science fields, Nina Milbauer and Lori Kelley, information technology instructors at
Madison (
Wisconsin)
Area Technical College, were inspired to create Girls Tech, a summer camp where girls in grades 6 through 9 learn about the possibilities open to them in a variety of technical professions.
Both Milbauer and Kelley earned master's degrees in UIS' online Computer Science program.
MATC recently hosted its second Girls Tech program and Ted Mims, chair of UIS' Computer Science department, was among the representatives from other institutions who visited Madison to observe. "You could actually see the excitement in (the girls') faces as they learned and they wanted to do more and more," said Mims.
An article in the July 1, 2008, Madison Capital Times profiled the program.
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20080701-MCT-GirlsTech.pdf
