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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; RIGHT: auto" class=MsoNormal><B style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Women, want to sharpen your computer & internet skills? Etsy offering 20 grants to "Hacker School" for women:<SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN><A style="RIGHT: auto" href="http://d.pr/3KYC" target=_blank><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: #0000cc; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">http://d.pr/3KYC</SPAN></A></B><SPAN class=apple-converted-space><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></B></SPAN></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Today, in conjunction with<A href="https://www.hackerschool.com/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0192b5> Hacker School</FONT></A>, Etsy is announcing a new scholarship and sponsorship program for women in technology: we’ll be hosting the summer 2012 session of Hacker School in the Etsy headquarters, and we’re providing ten <A href="http://www.etsy.com/hacker-grants"><FONT color=#0192b5>Etsy Hacker Grants</FONT></A> of $5,000 each — a total of $50,000 — to women who want to join but need financial support to do so. Our goal is to bring 20 women to New York to participate, and we hope this will be the first of many steps to encourage more women into engineering at Etsy and across the industry.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Hacker School is a New York-based project described by its founders (David Albert, Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock, and Sonali Sridhar) as “a three-month, immersive school for becoming a better programmer. It’s like a writers’ retreat for hackers.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">I love their focus on open-source software, on coding over building a startup, and especially on having a productive classroom environment that’s free from the negative conversational habits that all nerds sometimes fall into. They establish rules such as, “No feigning surprise — ‘You don’t know who <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman" target=_blank><FONT color=#0192b5>RICHARD STALLMAN</FONT></A> is!?’” Working to make a comfortable and supportive classroom environment is a great example of their educational insight and approach, and helps to address one of the big points of dissatisfaction female computer science students tend to experience.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">In Hacker School’s current batch, however, there is only one female student out of 20 (and yes, I am working on hiring her). Talking with them, they said all the same things I </SPAN></div>
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