#309: Good Engineering, Girls in Engineering, and more tech.

Digest #309

Thank you to Amazon and Plantronics for renewing their partnerships with us! We are grateful for all of our partners .

Women are still drastically underrepresented in computing careers. The Girls in Engineering (GiE) program at UCSC aims to help remedy this disproportion and bring a more balanced perspective to engineering and computing. Learn about UCSC's plans to significantly expand this valuable program.

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Sara Isenberg

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Santa Cruz Tech Beat

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Top Stories

The Baskin School of Engineering launches “Good Engineering” website to highlight achievements of engineering faculty, alumni, and students. Read this article .

The Baskin School of Engineering plans to significantly expand Girls in Engineering, a summer program designed to encourage 7th and 8th grade girls to get and stay interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Read this article .

Women Who Cowork, a membership platform for femme-identified coworking owners and operators across the globe, announces a crowdfunding campaign. Read this article .

Speakers and artists to deliver some hope for live TEDxSantaCruz on December 7 at the Rio Theatre. Read this article .

Satellite Deskworks has added a clickable floor plan to their workspace software. The floor plan enables you to show your space offerings. Read this article .

Call for speakers! Two-day !!CON celebration of joy, excitement, surprise of computing, returns to Santa Cruz in February 2020. Read this article .

Dec 4 is Holiday Tech: Kershner Design, Parallel Flight, Areias Systems, Spanner, WaWiCo, Almost Human Media. Read this article .

The Silicon Valley Business Journal (SVBJ) honors Digital Nest with a Community Impact Award. Read this article .

Interested in hosting and finding the right intern? MBEP is hosting a workshop for employers, designed to help you do just that. Read this article .