Tech Company Field Trip [Oct. 15, 2012, 6:51 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

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.

What is it like to work at Factual: Eva Ho (7:33)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2xjLHiIIDs&feature=share&list=PLB6E628EAA3F649D8

What is it like to work at Factual: Shabnam Shademan (4:32)

http://youtu.be/6jz2GoFIHRs

What is it like to work at Twitter: Sara Haider and Dana Contreras (7:10)

http://youtu.be/JSIDlG_MB5U

What is it like to work at Facebook: Ming Hua (4:22)

http://youtu.be/s0JVc4q7d5M

What is it like to work at Google: Shubhie Panicker (4:39)

http://youtu.be/8UovCe5hEt4

Videos from the Web

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