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

From: Donna Milgram (dmilgram@iwitts.com)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 09:47:46 EDT


National IWITTS's 10th National Futures:
Train-the-Trainer Workshop
With a special emphasis on recruiting Women to IT classes

Thursday & Friday, February 22 & 23, 2001

San Francisco Bay Area

Trainer: Donna Milgram, Executive Director
See our Web site http://www.iwitts.com for more information

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- 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
  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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We apologize for postponing our October 2000 workshop to February 2001.
Due to launching the WomenTech Role Model E-survey we were
late getting our publicity out about the October workshop. Based on the
many calls/e-mails we received about the cancellation -- quite
a few of you were making plans to come -- we are sorry about the
inconvenience and hope we'll see you in February.

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Donna Milgram
National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science
1150 Ballena Blvd, Suite 102
Alameda, CA 94501-3682
(510) 749-0200 (phone) * (510) 749-0500 (fax)
www.iwitts.com * donnam@iwitts.com



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