maybe get in-touch with the SWE chapter at UCSD (http://swe.ucsd.edu/home.html). I'll bet they will have some events or could arrange some informal tours of interesting facilities on campus.
Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?
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#22It's great that you see your daughter's interest in engineering and are encouraging her to pursue this passion.
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#23You sound sexist. Are you sexist? Why female engineers? Are male engineers not up to the challenge of instructing your offspring?
Role models, yo.
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#24Would like an update about this. Wondered how I would handle such a request. 12 year old would not have much inspiration watching me fix bugs and read hacker news
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#25Qualcomm is up in the Mira Mesa area and has a really cool museum of the history of CDMA and cell phones in their headquarters building (Building N). They've got big tubes of chips showing how they have decreased in size over time, a van that they used to demo CDMA to investors 20+ years ago, demo Android devices, a cool Mirasol display, some parts of their truck tracking system, and a bunch of stuff about the history of the company.
You do need to have an employee ID badge to get into the area that the museum is in, but I bet if you called them or know someone who currently works there they could show you around.
Source: I was an intern there last summer. http://www.qualcomm.com/about/buildings/museum
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#26"she has 16 hours of gymnastics practice every week, which markedly improves the report from school and now she's in love with it so I can't talk her out of it. I've tried. So spring break would be ideal."
This is going to sound harsh. So, essentially even though you have an available resource (FIRST) since your daughter would rather take gymnastics you are then going to push off this responsibility to a complete stranger and buy them lunch as a thank you? (Recognizing that that person of course will gain some karma by helping you out..) Why not just have your daughter learn a lesson early on about priorities in life?
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#27Girl Scouts have various camps focused on STEM. You can search here: http://www.sdgirlscouts.org/camp-descriptions
Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?
#28You sound sexist. Are you sexist? Why female engineers? Are male engineers not up to the challenge of instructing your offspring?
Never underestimate the value of seeing "Someone who is like you" doing something.
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#29"she has 16 hours of gymnastics practice every week, which markedly improves the report from school and now she's in love with it so I can't talk her out of it. I've tried. So spring break would be ideal." This is going to sound harsh. So, essentially even though you have an available resource (FIRST) since your daughter would rather take gymnastics you are then going to push off this responsibility to a complete str…
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#30 > she's in love with it
> I can't talk her out of it. I've tried.
If she "knows some python", is she in love with it? Is she actively learning more on the web?