Hardware Podcasts

68: Dancing With Hundreds Of Women

Embedded.fm · 17 Sept 2014 · 1h 02m

What this episode covers

Angie Chang, Director of Growth at Hackbright Academy and founder of Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners, discusses her career pivoting from engineering to community building and her current work scaling an engineering school for women. She details the structure of Hackbright's 3-month intensive Python curriculum, its 90% placement rate, and the upcoming hardware hackathon featuring kits from SparkFun and Electric Imp. Chang also reflects on the challenges of networking, the growth of Girl Geek Dinners, and strategies for increasing women's representation in tech through both education and corporate hiring practices.

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Companies
Hackbright Academy, Women 2.0, SparkFun, Electric Imp, Facebook, Google, Survey Monkey, Skybox Imaging, Indiegogo, Pandora, Tesla, Codecademy, Coursera
Products
Girl Geek Dinners, Arduino
Also
Grace Hopper Conference

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