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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 kbar13 »

niels_olson wrote: post #75
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…

damn, intro to python at 12? I wish my grade school taught me cs :(

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

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Post by tinco »

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.

I agree, but the world is not absolutes. You can be a programmer that makes a fine living and do gymnastics 16 hours per week.

Do what you enjoy enough that you don't mind doing it 30 hours per week, and do what you love the rest of the time is pretty solid as well.

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

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Post by joeframbach »

eddieroger wrote: post #83
xrange wrote: post #4

Is SD a neighborhood, city, state, country? South Dakota? Sudan? Santo Domingo? San Diego?

> Any female engineers in San Diego... It means San Diego.

The title had been modified. Go away with your snark.

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

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Post by MSM »

sigstoat wrote: post #37
tinco wrote: post #29

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

well, probably healthier relationships with other people, for starters. blowing off your obligations to do whatever makes you happy is probably going to upset a lot of other folks. there's certainly a balance to be had, and it isn't fully in favor of short term happiness, either.

And sitting in front of a computer for an extra 16 hours a week learning to program at the age of 12 instead of having normal social interactions is supposed to enable her to have "healthier relationships with other people"?

> blowing off your obligations

She is 12 years old. Are you people mad? She has very few obligations and that's a good thing. Let her have some fun before she needs to start being an adult.

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

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Post by Fomite »

larrys wrote: post #40
heartbreak wrote: post #33

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Both of my sisters received NCAA scholarships for gymnastics. So it can lead to a free education, where her daughter might choose to study something STEM.

"so it can lead" Care to discuss the probability of that happening? I know someone who got an NCAA (or similar) scholarship for swimming. The rest of the team didn't.

I can make a pretty compelling case that one of the reasons I am where I am today is because I was a mediocre ski racer.

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dang wrote: post #64
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Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?

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Post by JohnHaugeland »

Why do you need a woman?

I don't understand why we all talk about the gender problem in engineering, then continue it by isolating female students from male teachers. There is no isolation between male students and female teachers, or same gender students and teachers.

If we want to move towards equality, why carefully structure inequality in?

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