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13 Jul Summer Camps Empower Youth and Encourage Diversity in Tech

Gender equality is a hot topic in the tech sector with companies, organizations, and government getting behind the Women in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) movement.

10 Jul Michigan Tech 1 of 5 Universities Chosen to Help Improve Diversity in Mechanical Engineering Education

Michigan Technological University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics is one of five mechanical engineering departments nationwide selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to participate in a new diversity training program. The others are Purdue, Oregon State, Texas Tech and the University of Oklahoma. The NSF...

08 Jul Entrepreneurship Datebook: Workshops, events this week in South Florida

CIVIC INNOVATION: Free networking event and panel discussion on “The Big Business of Civic Innovation” hosted by Digital Grass, with participatory ideation led by Silicon Valley's Carla Mays, 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, July 8, The LAB Miami, 400 NW 26th St. More info and RSVP: digigrass.com.

08 Jul Jesse Jackson Is Taking on Silicon Valley’s Epic Diversity Problem

IN MAY 2014, the Reverend Jesse Jackson traveled from his home in Chicago to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California, to address the search giant's annual shareholder meeting. Technology isn't what you would call a core area for the 73-year-old civil rights leader, who carries an old-school flip phone and oversees a website, Rainbowpush.org, that looks like a relic from the GeoCities era. But Jackson had a bone to pick. Despite Google's mission to make the world's data "universally accessible and useful," it had been fighting for years to stop the release of federal data on diversity in its workforce. "There should be nothing to hide, and much to be proud of and promote," Jackson told the company's executives after politely requesting its diversity stats. "I ask you, in the name of all you represent, to pursue this mission."