<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div> FYI<br>Sorry for cross posting!<br></div><font size="1">---------------------------------------------</font><br><div style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Women, want to sharpen your computer & internet skills? Etsy offering 20<br>grants to "Hacker School" for women: <a href="http://d.pr/3KYC%C2%A0" target="_blank">http://d.pr/3KYC </a><br> <br>Today, in conjunction withHacker School, Etsy is announcing a new<br>scholarship and sponsorship program for women in technology: we’ll be<br>hosting the summer 2012 session of Hacker School in the Etsy headquarters,<br>and we’re providing ten Etsy Hacker Grants of $5,000 each — a total of<br>$50,000 — to women who
want to join but need financial support to do so.<br>Our goal is to bring 20 women to New York to participate, and we hope this<br>will be the first of many steps to encourage more women into engineering<br>at Etsy and across the industry.<br>Hacker School<br>Hacker School is a New York-based project described by its founders (David<br>Albert, Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock, and Sonali Sridhar) as “a three-month,<br>immersive school for becoming a better programmer. It’s like a writers’<br>retreat for hackers.”<br>I love their focus on open-source software, on coding over building a<br>startup, and especially on having a productive classroom environment<br>that’s free from the negative conversational habits that all nerds<br>sometimes fall into. They establish rules such as, “No feigning surprise —<br>‘You don’t know who RICHARD STALLMAN is!?’” Working to make a comfortable<br>and supportive classroom environment is a great example of
their<br>educational insight and approach, and helps to address one of the big<br>points of dissatisfaction female computer science students tend to<br>experience.<br>In Hacker School’s current batch, however, there is only one female<br>student out of 20 (and yes, I am working on hiring her). Talking with<br>them, they said all the same things I<br> <br>Read more at link:<br> <br><a href="http://d.pr/3KYC%C2%A0" target="_blank">http://d.pr/3KYC </a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Apcwomen-meet mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Apcwomen-meet@lists.apcwomen.org" href="mailto:Apcwomen-meet@lists.apcwomen.org">Apcwomen-meet@lists.apcwomen.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.apcwomen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/apcwomen-meet" target="_blank">http://lists.apcwomen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/apcwomen-meet</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>