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Ubisoft Puts On-Demand Manufacturing In Your Kids’ Hands
At a recent event in New York Ubisoft unveiled some new games and some improvements to their Imagine line of games geared toward tween girls. Their Imagine line is based on different careers that may...
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5 Tips for Raising Your Girl Geek
As geek parents, we often have rosy colored notions about our children growing up. We actually want them to be geeks. From the earliest of ages we dress them in WoW gear, teach them to quote Star Wars...
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WGBH Is Helping Girls Discover The Joy Of Engineering
WGBH with the National National Academy of Engineering has launched a program to get more girls interested in engineering through a website called Engineer Your Life. With the President’s recent STEM...
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MIT’s Summer Technology Program for Girls
Every year, women in MIT’s Graduate School design and teach a summer program aimed at High School girls. The Women’s Technology Program (WTP) hosts 60 High School seniors for a four week residential...
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Barbie’s Looking For A Job … Lets Make It A Geeky One
Barbie has had over 120 careers in her day. From astronaut to Heidi Klum and everything in between. As the father of a young girl I’ve been pretty disappointed in the Barbie line my daughter has been...
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The Engineer’s Pledge
As Geek Dads (and Moms) we are raising our kids with an appreciation for science, engineering, and technology. While my son took to science right away, I had to encourage my daughter a little. She’s...
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Where Are the Stories For Girls?
Most stories are about boys and for boys, or about men and for men. Think of the classics, like Oliver Twist or The Count of Monte Cristo, then think of more recent popular stories like Diary of a...
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Girl Power: 3 iPhone Heroines
Earlier this month, fellow GeekDad Jonathan Knudsen asked, “Where are the stories for girls?” That got me thinking, in large part because I have two young daughters myself and I certainly want to find...
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PAX East: Hail to the King Baby, Duke Nukem is Back
This past weekend I traveled to Boston with several other GeekDads to attend PAX East. Not only did we get the privilege of having our own panel – which if there were tickets being sold for it would...
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Girls Have a Ball Making Music With Magic Belles
My two-year-old daughter clearly loves music. She dances to everything, and she sings with abandon. Although I’m married to a musician and live nearby to one of the top music schools in the world, I...
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Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Date Gizmodo’s Alyssa Bereznak
Alyssa, girl to girl, let’s talk. You went on what is essentially an Internet-facilitated, near-blind date. You say everybody’s doing it, and you admit you’ve heard of some pretty crazy horror stories....
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Lego Friends: It’s Lego But, You Know, for Girls
Lego tries again to reach the girl market more directly, but this time they might succeed.
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Echoes of Barbie’s “Math Class Is Tough!”
Remember 20 years ago (has it really been that long?) when the Teen Talk Barbie uttered the phrase “Math class is tough!” and ignited a firestorm of bad publicity for Mattel? You’d think people would...
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Sweety High Aims to Be the Fame of Social Networks
It can be tough for a kid to experience community on the Internet. All but 5% of teens are online, and most are using social media platforms. However, for all the success experienced by websites like...
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Your Chance to Play Chess Like a Girl
For beginners, chess is a game that centers around preserving a decidedly female (and all-powerful) piece. Still, the world of chess has long been dominated by males. But, in case you had missed it,...
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Living With Lego Friends
It’s been two months now since Lego unleashed the new Friends line into its apparently male-dominated range and by all accounts it’s flying off the shelves. One member of the Lego staff at their London...
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Geeks come in all shapes, sizes, and genders. So why do publishers assume that girls are just princesses-in-training? Here are a few books that can teach your daughter—or son—that girls can geek out...
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Every Girl Should Go To The Science Fair
A couple of weeks ago, our family's main babysitter, an undergraduate chemistry major, made a depressing -- and depressingly accurate -- observation: She has several female friends who are chemistry...
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Kickstarter Alert | GoldieBlox Hits a Sweet Spot for Getting Girls Excited...
GoldieBlox is a fabulous book and project/kit set designed to get girls excited about engineering the solutions to problems.
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Four Teen Makers Develop DIY Pee Power
One awesome story making waves out of the event is of the four teen girl makers, Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin, and Bello Eniola, who have hacked together their own system for...
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