Tech Company Field Trip [Oct. 11, 2012, 11:32 a.m.]

Attend a field trip with your team to a local technology company. You will learn about what happens inside of a tech company through hands-on activities, meet the company’s top women executives, and mingle with other girls participating in Technovation from nearby schools.

Mentors can arrange a field trip at their own company or find another suitable venue. Teachers can also help to arrange field trips. Combine your efforts by reaching out to other teams in your region -- send them a message on P2PU or add a comment below.

Field trips are best when they are full-day experiences that occur during a week day. At least one teacher or other adult must be present to chaperone students during the field trip.

Planning a field trip? Check out our Field Trip Guidelines.

Please post comments about field trips below.

Virtual Field Trips:

Teams without access to nearby technology companies can check out our "virtual field trips" below or coordinate a virtual field trip with a remote mentor using Skype or G+ videoconferencing.

Iridescent/Technovation Videos

Our field trip series is a part of the curriculum that showcases female executives and engineers from tech companies talking about their careers and the big problems they solve.

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Videos from the Web

Girls in a Tech World: Endless Possibilities of Computer Science (Google, 2:40)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYBPotROKC8

Working at Google Zurich – Lina: Software Engineer – (Google, :49)

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An Inside Look at Google – Working at Google – (Google, 2:17)

http://youtu.be/aOZhbOhEunY

A Rare Look Inside Pixar Studios (Pixar, 6:08)

http://www.nytimes.com/video/2011/02/09/movies/1248069625002/a-rare-look-inside-pixar-studios.html

Microsoft Campus Tours - Xbox HQ (Microsoft, 8:20)

http://youtu.be/LvTDgKIPHzI