On Saturday 9 Oct 2010, UCSC is hosting a science conference for high-school girls from the Monterey Bay Area.
Danielle Feinberg, director of photography at Pixar Animation Studios, will give a keynote talk: “To Infinity and Beyond! The Math and Science Behind Movie Making.” There will also be a hands-on workshop.
This sort of outreach seems more likely to be helpful in creating more female engineers than efforts like Nerd Girls, which I’ve posted about before.
[...] Horizons conference to interest high-school girls in math and science. (I mentioned it briefly in a previous blog post.) This year they had Danielle Feinberg of Pixar Animation Studios as their keynote speaker: [...]
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