{"id":29591,"date":"2018-04-17T11:54:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T16:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=29591"},"modified":"2018-04-17T11:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T16:55:15","slug":"girls-with-dreams-and-women-with-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/17\/girls-with-dreams-and-women-with-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls With Dreams and Women With Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Ravinand is the founder of &#8220;She Dreams in Code,&#8221; a nonprofit focused on increasing opportunities for middle school girls to engage in coding.  She is also the author of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1979390983\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1979390983&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=7ed233019a479d461cf77868d6faf7ca\">Girls With Dreams: Inspiring Girls to Code and Create in the New Generation<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1979390983\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.  In this book, Ntasha interviews several women in engineering and technology in order to assemble a compendium of inspiration for others like her, who want to engage in technology without the usual and common obstacles.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_29592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29592\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29592\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/17\/girls-with-dreams-and-women-with-cards\/natasha_ravinand_she_dreams_in_code\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Natasha_Ravinand_she_dreams_in_code.png?fit=412%2C408&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"412,408\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Natasha_Ravinand_she_dreams_in_code\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Natasha Ravinand is a Junior at Northwood High School (Irvine, CA). She is considered to be one of the top high schoolers in the coding world.  Hello world.   @natasharavinand&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Natasha_Ravinand_she_dreams_in_code.png?fit=300%2C297&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Natasha_Ravinand_she_dreams_in_code.png?fit=412%2C408&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Natasha_Ravinand_she_dreams_in_code-300x297.png?resize=300%2C297\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Natasha_Ravinand_she_dreams_in_code.png?resize=300%2C297&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Natasha_Ravinand_she_dreams_in_code.png?w=412&amp;ssl=1 412w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natasha Ravinand is a Junior at Northwood High School (Irvine, CA). She is considered to be one of the top high schoolers in the coding world.  Hello world.   @natasharavinand<\/figcaption><\/figure>Here&#8217;s two facts you need to know.  1) Only 25% of the adults engaged in science and technology (STEM) are women. 2) This is a HUGE percentage compared to what it was only a few years ago. So, we are in a bad place, but also, we are moving quickly out of that place.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Expect the patriarch to grab the reins. Indeed, it already has, with the marriage of the technology boys club and the MRA movement, not to mention other nefarious groups.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1979390983\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1979390983&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=7ed233019a479d461cf77868d6faf7ca\">Girls With Dreams: Inspiring Girls to Code and Create in the New Generation<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1979390983\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> is new, self published, inexpensive, and cool. Buy the book.<\/p>\n<p>I promised Women with Cards. This is just a reminder to check out my sister&#8217;s project, &#8220;The Educational Card Project.&#8221;  This is physical scientists who are women made into playing cars.  A lot of STEM teachers use playing cards in various exercises, or should if they don&#8217;t. This allows them to sneak 52 women who have accomplishments in the physical sciences and related fields into the classroom.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edcardproject.org\/\">Check it out here.<\/a> If you as a person buy a deck of cards (but really, buy two decks!) a portion of the take goes to provide cards for free in classrooms. Also, you can simply donate cash money to the project.  So, go do that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Ravinand is the founder of &#8220;She Dreams in Code,&#8221; a nonprofit focused on increasing opportunities for middle school girls to engage in coding. She is also the author of Girls With Dreams: Inspiring Girls to Code and Create in the New Generation. In this book, Ntasha interviews several women in engineering and technology in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/17\/girls-with-dreams-and-women-with-cards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Girls With Dreams and Women With Cards<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5028],"tags":[5268,1001,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Girls_with_dreams_natasha_Ravinand_greg_laden_blog.png?fit=227%2C245&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-7Hh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29595,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29591\/revisions\/29595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}