IT

Introducing…Elaine Batzer: MS Office Maestro and Harry Potter FanGirl

Who are you and what do you do? Elaine Batzer, Geek Girl #13 Career & Tech Ed (Vocational) Instructor, Weymouth High School IT Shop   What will you be teaching at Geek Girl Conference this year? MS Office, including Word, Excel & Powerpoint. There is always some file management that goes along with those as well.   What was your favorite part of the conference last year? The Opening Ceremony, when I stood there taking in the hundreds of attendees, the amazing and cool presenters and trainers as they spoke about themselves, and experienced the intense positive energy in that….

Happy Birthday, Ada Lovelace!

Today is the birthday of Ada Lovelace, widely recognized as one of the first computer programmers. Her claim to fame was that she wrote programs for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, along with the very first description of a computer and software. Why is this of major importance? She was born in 1815, surely a time when women were not even considered to be a major force in science and technology. And in so far as successful women programmers or even women in tech, there are no Ada Lovelaces around in 2009 either. Women in IT are a rarity in most….