[EDEQUITY] How To Recruit Women to Tech and IT Classes

From: Donna Milgram (dmilgram@iwitts.com)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 11:43:21 EDT


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National IWITTS's 10th National Futures:
Train-the-Trainer Workshop
With a special emphasis on recruiting Women to IT classes
Thursday & Friday, October 12 & 13, 2000
San Francisco Bay Area
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Trainer: Donna Milgram, Executive Director
See our Web site http://www.iwitts.com for more information

- Learn how to recruit women to high-skill, high-wage careers!

- In-Depth Module on Recruiting Women to IT (Information
  Technology) Occupations. Donna Milgram is leading the Cisco
  Learning Institute's (CLI) Gender Initiative on Recruiting Women
  to Cisco Networking Academies (http://www.iwitts.com/html/cisco.html).

- Learn "How To" Train Teachers & Counselors on:
* Making girl geeks "Cool" in your school
* Encouraging female (and male) students to proactively explore
  and click through computer programs and software* Helping female
  students withstand negative peer pressure

- Both High School and Community College Recruitment and=20
  Retention Strategies will be covered

Featuring IWITTS's newly developed, attractive 62-slide PowerPoint
Presentation (http://www.iwitts.com/html/powerpoint.html) that links to
the Futures Video and Workbook (http://www.iwitts.com/html/futures.htm).
Packed full of recruitment and retention strategies for both high
schools and community colleges.

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HEAR WHAT YOUR COLLEAGUES ARE SAYING ABOUT THE FUTURES VIDEO AND
TRAINING

"This class and the supporting materials really brought home for me the
importance of this issue and gave very real, practical, easy-to-use
options and solutions to the hurdles one encounters in educating and
inspiring young women to pursue meaningful careers. We've incorporated
the training in our School-to-Career staff development classes and feel
it is an essential piece of the entire effort."
-Debra Schluter, School-to-Career Coordinator
Aurora Public Schools, Aurora, Colorado

For more information on the training, visit our Web site at
http://www.iwitts.com/html/training_workshops.html (participant
evaluations and publication descriptions).

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TRAINING LOCATION AND TIME
The Futures Train-the-Trainer Workshop will take place on Thursday &
Friday, October 12 & 13, 2000 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the San
Francisco Bay Bridge Four Points Sheraton, 1603 Powell Street,
Emeryville, California 94608.

For more information, kevisb@iwitts.com or call (510) 749-0200 ext. 102
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Donna Milgram
National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science
1150 Ballena Blvd, Suite 102
Alameda, CA 94501-3682=20
(510) 749-0200 (phone) * (510) 749-0500 (fax)
www.iwitts.com * dmilgram@iwitts.com



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