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Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?

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Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?

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Post by mikeho1999 »

avani wrote: post #43

I'm a computer science postdoc at the Salk Institute. We're having a big public event next Saturday (Walk for Salk) where we're also doing lab tours. Bring your daughter there and I'll give her an extra tour of the computational areas. (find me at avani@salk.edu)

What an incredible idea for an event! But just out of curiosity, has this been publicized at all? I live in SD, and I regularly tune in to local media (especially NPR/KPBS), and yet, reading it here on HN is the first time I've heard about Walk for Salk...

Anyway, it sounds like a great event, and I hope to come and bring the family!

Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?

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Post by LukeWalsh »

voicereasonish wrote: post #30

> she's in love with it > I can't talk her out of it. I've tried. Why would you try and talk her out of something she's in love with? If she "knows some python", is she in love with it? Is she actively learning more on the web?

She's also 12 though. I think it's perfectly fine to have hobbies that aren't programming. I for one wasn't "in love" with programming when I was 12, I hadn't even been exposed to it. Seeing how people work in career paths she may not even know exists could be incredibly valuable, I know it would have been for me.

Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?

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Post by LukeWalsh »

xname wrote: post #63
kumarski wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://i.imgur.com/KgoIF.gif I'm so glad everyone downvoted you.

How do you know everyone downvoted?

Comments become more gray and slightly less readable as they accumulate down votes. If you're using something that scrapes the site you might not be able to see it but it's visible on the main news.ycombinator.com site.

Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?

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Post by niels_olson »

KimberlyGrommes wrote: post #38

Can you give a little more information about what you're really hoping your daughter will see and get out of the experience? What type of engineer are you looking for? I'm a software engineer in SD with a 12 year old daughter of my own.

I think she's a little young to specify which branch of engineering (medicine and architecture are also on the list) but exposure to any and all would be good. She worked through a fair chunk of Python for Kids last summer. I feel a little bad that I'm not a great teacher, but she's proud of what she learned (as evidenced by the fact that they had an intro to python in school and she housed everybody).

Really, I just want her to come home with a new appreciation for the technical ability of women, and insight that learning math and science leads to something other than doing more long division by hand.

And to go and make a friend would be awesome!

Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?

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Post by gcb0 »

wonkus wrote: post #19

You sound sexist. Are you sexist? Why female engineers? Are male engineers not up to the challenge of instructing your offspring?

lol. nice try. but if it would be funnier if you posted the same post, word for word, but changing the genders. that would show the knew jerk reactions going on in this community better than your also sexist comment.

Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?

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Post by raven105x »

Hey hey, fellow San Diegan here! I've been seeing the comments about FIRST and it seems like you're not interested due to your little one's scheduling - but if that changes, let me know; my friend teaches FIRST (also saw post from Tyler here)

In the meantime, let me know if you want to grab lunch in SD - it's on me. yreztsov@gmail.com

Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?

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Post by niels_olson »

mellery451 wrote: post #21

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.

Someone sent me an email about SWE, thanks!

Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?

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Post by niels_olson »

philwelch wrote: post #53
tinco wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Teaching your kid that work and obligations of life are more important than pursuing the things that make you happy leads to...

Not being broke makes me pretty fucking happy. "Do what makes you happy and don't worry about money" is a platitude for the privileged and not actually life advice. "Do what you enjoy well enough to spend 40 hours a week on if someone is paying you for it" is a better goal.

And what will you do with the other 128 hours?
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