style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0em; color: rgb(98, 98, 98); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; ">In Portland, Oregon on 18 & 19 July 2012, in the context of OSCON 2012 - the largest open source conference in the world - Greenlightforgirls.org will carry out Greenlight@OSCON Days 2012 (“g4gOSCON2012”), a two-day event providing forty girls the opportunity to design, program and deploy hands-on missions involving robots, space and ICT, in order to show the fun in science and technolgy, and to promote these areas as study and career choices for girls.
g4gOSCON2012 will be led by Cheryl Miller, Technology Chair for the greenlight for girlsfoundation (“g4g”) and Tasha Carl, Founder of ICT2ACT and g4g Robotics Community Leader. The event will be supported on the ground by young g4g volunteer assistants and volunteer female role model professionals from the field.
g4gOSCON2012 will take place from 10am to 4pm on 18 & 19 July 2012, within the OSCON exhibition hall at the Oregon Convention Center.
If you are interested in collaborating on the "Girls, Coding & Robots" activity at OSCON 2012, please contact us! To register for g4gOSCON2012 please go here!
Update on Friday, May 25, 2012 at 4:12PM
We are thrilled to announce our first official sponsor of g4gOSCON2012:
Black Duck Softwarein Burlington, Massachusetts! Thank you to Black Duck Software, and to all our other fabulous parters and supporters of Greenlight@OSCON Days 2012!
