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Ladies learning code seeks to close gender tech gap
Posted on: 2011-11-02 02:01:35 by rajiremany
       Ladies learning code, a Canadian team of volunteers, are working to close the technology gender gap. They instruct the ladies, who range from early 20s to late 50s, who are interested in honing their skill set, learning some technical skills, learning how to communicate with developers and broaden their horizons.  Heather Payne who founded the group — with a tweet — these women (and a few men) are learning Ruby, the programming language on which Twitter is built. The first hands-on workshop in August taught JavaScript; an HTML class followed in ...
Nano particle behavior in Viscous fluid
Posted on: 2011-12-27 06:07:01 by taoufiknabat
      Medical field have been able to advance at a very rapid pace, from advance surgeries to developing medicine to cure many diseases. However there is still many diseases which has been discovered yet we can’t find a cure, for example Cancer, HIV exedra. Due to complicity of these viruses we are still going to batle which have not have not moved forward in a right pat for these pased years. For example if we examine today treatment for cancer we will see there are only a certain percentage of cures that a medical doctor is able to achieve with such treatment “chemotherapy”, or even surgery or other kind of medical treatment. The reason behind...
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Update 5/11/12
Posted on: 2012-05-09 03:06:54 by zacharyhoward
      The semester has been so hectic that I haven't had much time to update this blog! I apologize, faithful readers, and will attempts to cover everything that has happened since my last post.
The Symposium
Posted on: 2012-05-02 20:09:04 by smacdonald
      For the first three years in the GK-12 program, my classes did not participate in the Symposium. I consider that to be a big mistake on my part. Getting the students involved this year was more rewarding than I could have imagined: From an applications standpoint, my students experienced the practical use of the mathematics (statistics) that they had been studying since the beginning of the school year. Students also learned mathematics that wasn't directly tied specifically to their statistics class, an added benefit so to speak.  Over and above the mathematics, Pratik Gandhi, my GK-12 fellow, taught these students the value of software p...