February 27, 2015 - 08:20
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Here is a nice story that might give you ideas on conntecting women to STEM:
http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/women-who-changed-tech-industry-forever/
Also, I mention Martha Evens, Bryn Mawr College alumna, who claimed to have written the first spelling checker. (BTW, I added to that BMC tradition by writing the spelling-checking program in Jupyter).
-Doug