Tech Company Field Trip [Oct. 12, 2012, 3:09 p.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
Videos from the Web
Girls in a Tech World: Endless Possibilities of Computer Science (2:40)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYBPotROKC8
Working at Google Zurich – Lina: Software Engineer – (:49)
An Inside Look at Google – Working at Google – (2:17)
Pixar
A Rare Look Inside Pixar Studios (6:08)
Microsoft
Microsoft Campus Tours - Xbox HQ (8:20)
Day in the life of a Software Development Engineer in Test at Microsoft Ireland (2:40)
Women in IT: Juliana Gomez on life and career at Microsoft (5:07)
Microsoft Research – Women in Computer Science: Jasmin Fisher – (4:31)
Rockwell Collins
Day in the Life of a Software Engineer (4:21)
NASA
Aspire to Inspire: Women in STEM (6:50)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuyEWbWRu5M&feature=relmfu
Goldman Sachs
Our Divisions - Technology (3:25)
Startup - Adafruit
Meet Limor "ladyada" Fried at Adafruit Industries! (2:50)
Startup - Fourquare
Dorm Room Innovators: Dennis Crowley of Foursquare (3:07)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-bB2hwxmpQ
Startup - Backblaze
Startup Sessions – An inside look at Backblaze – (9:10)
Search and recommend videos of companies near you in the comments, for example, here is an article and video for Brazil.