Fun apps, shows and toys are available for kids to learn to code. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) With the success of young programmers like Mark Zuckerberg who started Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, parents are encouraging their kids to learn to code at a younger age. Now parents can encourage [...]
Posts Tagged "Adafruit Industries"
Get Gifts To Encourage Little Girls To Be Geeky! (Cyber Monday)
November 26, 2012 – 9:00 am
We need more girls to be interested in science, technology and math. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Alice Brooks grew up playing visiting her dad’s robotics lab. When she asked for a Barbie, he gave her a mini saw. So, she made her own doll! Today, Alice holds Mechanical Engineering degrees from [...]
PITCH NYC 2012: MAKER Panel Talks About Kickstarter Campaigns, Prototyping, Pricing Product And “What Makes This A Tech Company?”
November 14, 2012 – 1:27 pm
Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition – By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, the MAKER panel consists of four women starting companies and shipping hardware products: Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries, Alice Brooks of Roominate, Liz Salcedo of Everpurse and Debbie Sterling of GoldieBlox. These [...]
Adafruit Industries Founder Limor Fried Speaking At PITCH NYC Conference On November 14
November 6, 2012 – 6:00 am
November 14′s PITCH Conference speakers include Adafruit Industries founder Limor Fried. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We are just 8 days away Women 2.0′s first PITCH Conference in New York featuring a full day of successful women entrepreneurs as speakers. Meet Limor Fried, founder at Adafruit Industries. Limor will be in the [...]
Vote For “LEGO For Girls – This Time, Hardware-Hacker Style”
May 23, 2012 – 10:36 am
Ladyada’s workshop is a place to you explore all the cool things you build and use when you’re an engineer! By Limor Fried (Founder & Engineer, Adafruit Industries) Will LEGO produce a hardware hacker’s idea of a set for girls? We are very excited about this experiment. Here is our “Ladyada’s workshop” LEGO page. We [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Startups Catering To Moms
May 11, 2012 – 10:42 am
From subscription services for parents to circuit kits for children, there is plenty of options for Mother’s Day! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week we think about moms – they have their choice of subscription services to products for them and their children. Moms also have daily deals sites catering to [...]
Female Founders To Watch Building Hardware Startups
April 13, 2012 – 4:03 am
Arduinos, circuits, and… robots? Women entrepreneurs push boundaries of devices, hardware startups. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) There are web startups, mobile startups, consumer electronics startups… Newest yet are the interesting device startups are cropping up at various intersections of previous industries, creating disruptive new technologies and businesses. We watched Square, the [...]
