Girl Geek Dinners Waterloo Region

Girl Geek Dinners Waterloo Region We provide a fun, casual, educational – and tasty – community for the geek-minded of all stripes in the Region.

Girl Geek Dinners were founded by Sarah Lamb in London, UK in 2005, to help promote women working in tech. As a result of her frustration being the only woman at tech events, and being assumed to be a marketing person, today there are 64 chapters in 23 countries, including several in Canada: Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Edmonton, and Vancouver. The goal of Girl Geek Dinners KW is

to provide fun, welcoming events where all types of people in tech — from students just figuring out their interests to those with well-established careers — though primarily women, can come together, meet ‘n’ greet, learn, network, talk tech, and have a great time. The first KW Girl Geek Dinner took place on May 12, 2011, at the Google Waterloo office, with Ruth Morton from Microsoft speaking on Cloud Computing. Since then we’ve had a variety of speakers on STEM topics (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), from professors to CEOs, engineers to community managers. We have also been fortunate to receive support from a number of local organizations, including Communitech, Google, and the University of Waterloo. We embrace the Girl Geeks Mission Statement:

- To break down old fashioned social stereotypes.
- To identify routes around barriers to entry for anyone to get into technology.
- To encourage and nurture those interested in technology.
- To work with local schools, colleges and universities to encourage more women into the technology industry.
- To support those currently in the industry and work together to figure out the issues and the solutions.
- To include men, women and children in this journey… and not exclude men from Girl Geek Dinner Events.

07/03/2015

Girl power.

The Recap of our June Dinner on women in comics, with Jenn Haines from The Dragon, is up. BIF! BAF! POW!http://www.girlg...
07/02/2015

The Recap of our June Dinner on women in comics, with Jenn Haines from The Dragon, is up. BIF! BAF! POW!

http://www.girlgeekskw.com/2015/06/jenn-haines-to-present-on-women-in-comics/

Well, Geeks, the end is nigh. We’ve come to the last Dinner that PJ and I are organizing, but we’re going out in geeky style! (Get tickets now.) Jenn Haines, owner of The Dragon comics shop in Guelph, will be joining us to talk about women in comics. This is going to take a few angles:

07/01/2015

The toy company has taken significant steps to address consumer interest in the addition of more female characters in STEM fields

06/30/2015

On June 30, two astronomical objects are destined to meet: The planet named after the Goddess of love, Venus, and the planet named after the God of Thunder, Jupiter. On Earth, they will appear so close together that they will look like a dramatic "double star."

06/28/2015

Analytical Engine Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) is widely credited as the first computer scientist and Charles Babbage (1791-1871) is best remembered for originating the concept of...

06/27/2015

But, for now, she's focusing on a different career possibility: construction.

06/26/2015

Nora Young (host of CBC Radio’s Spark and author of The Virtual Self) and Anthony J. Levinson (Physician; Associate Professor; John Evans Chair in Educational Research; Director, Division of e-Learning Innovation, McMaster University) delivered a compelling talk.

06/26/2015

On National Women In Engineering Day, top architect and RIBA president elect Jane Duncan explains why all girls should consider a career in her field

06/26/2015

112 Years Ago Today Marie Curie Announced Her Discovery Of Radium And Made History

06/24/2015

Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a 32-year-old theoretical astrophysicist. Her academic home is arguably the nation's most elite physics department, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

06/22/2015

We, the Maker Expo + kwartzlab crew brought our love of making to Summer Lights on Saturday night and the people responded with gusto...

06/20/2015

This sharp crew from the TD Lab at Communitech made and shot air-powered rockets as part of our Maker Expo pop-up/sign-up event on Thursday. We are on the lookout for makers and signing them up on the spot...

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