Posted on February 26th, 2010
Written by Sarah Blow
If you remember, last year brought the very first Ada Lovelace Day, Founded by Suw Charman-Anderson where loads and loads of bloggers, male and female wrote about their geeky, science, technology and mathematical inspirations. Well it’s coming back round again.
Keep the 24th March at the forefront of your mind for a blog post about who [...]
Posted on January 1st, 2010
Written by Sarah Blow
A while back I got the opportunity to catch up with some great people at the Beam Presents event, and chat to them about their technologies, what they do and how young people might be able to get into something like their jobs.
The second of these video’s to be released out into the wild is [...]
Posted on December 16th, 2009
Written by Sarah Blow
Last month we launched the Manga Competition for people to win one of two copies of the Manga Guide to Calculus courtesy of No Starch Press who are the publishers of the Manga Guide series. Whilst this competition was going on @decisionstats came up with a fantastic suggestion! That we should try to get companies [...]
Posted on November 11th, 2009
Written by Sarah Blow
On Twitter I have been teasing some of my followers telling them this post was coming well here it is! Not so long ago we managed to get our hands onto the Manga Guide to Physics, which is a great way for anyone into physics, especially if they like Manga but don’t necessarily have [...]
Posted on August 19th, 2009
Written by Sarah Blow
We asked our Twitter followers for their hints and tips on how to get through the clearing process of UK universities as well as bringing together as many resources that were simple and effective for you as possible. With there being up to 50% less clearing places within many universities this year there will [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2008
Written by Chris Hambly
Hmm, not enough background in the title to convince you there? I better justify myself a little.
It’s true that a number (probably a high proportion?) of girls, simply do not like playing with toys and gadgets, not many venture into engineering type careers (though that does appear to be changing). Personally, I find it incredibly [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2008
Written by Sarah Blow
So I’ve heard about this from a number of different sources and it’s taken me til now to get myself into gear and get back into blogging! Yep you heard right… All this tweeting and doing the London Girl Geek Dinner website re-designs has been using up a fair bit of time. So [...]
Posted on March 29th, 2008
Written by Damana Madden
Since starting the Sydney thread of Girl Geek Dinners, the most common question I get is: Am I a geek girl?
The short answer is that if you think you are and you are willing to ask me then you probably are. The longer version is not so easy. Google’s define: geek girl function gives no [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2008
Written by Dr Mariann Hardey
At Girl Geek Dinners we pride ourselves on our intellect. And so it was with (an amused) disappointment that I read; ‘The best places to meet a guy’ article by Cosmopolitan Magazine that was forwarded to me this week. You might like to know that not all girls are man hungry to the point [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2008
Written by Sarah Blow
The issues of male and female gender and stereotypical jobs have been around ever since I was tiny. I grew up wearing nothing but pink. Was given Barbie dolls and Sylvanian Families as toys. When I was at school I was advised that I should work in marketing, HR or design. [...]
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