Welcome Back GIT GIRLSMake sure to sign in at the front!

Networking Exercise:Talk to at least 3 protégés and/or mentors1. Use the 3 PUMP handshake to introduce yourself2. State your name and where you go to school or work3. Share what you want to study and/or want to be if you knew you

couldn’t fail

1. Hello, my name is Jenny Oh2. I currently work at Booz Allen Hamilton/NASA3. If I knew I couldn’t fail I would want to develop medicinal foods that

helps improve/prevent diseases

Networking Exercise:Talk to at least 3 protégés and/or mentors1. Use the 3 PUMP handshake to introduce yourself2. State your name and where you go to school or work3. Share what you want to study and/or want to be if you knew you

couldn’t fail

WELCOME Girls in Technology Mentor Protégé Program

VIRGINIA

Session 4: INNOVATION & The Potomac School Robotics Demo

Agenda:The GIT Mentor-Protégé Program starts promptly at 6:00 PM. • 6:00 - 6:30pm: Sign-in/Networking/Refreshments(You must sign in with the GIT front desk in order to record your attendance) • 6:30 – 6:40pm: Welcome & Announcements – Jenny Oh• 6:40 – 7:25pm: GIT Demo – Irene Lane and Mary Jarratt• 7:30 – 8:30pm: Mentor-Protégé Session• 8:30pm: Closing – Edith Ababio

GIT SCHOLARSHIP

$1,000 x 2

Essay or video submission

CashSTEM Camps/ Programs

Electronic application

Experience

http://www.womenintechnology.org/git/scholarships

This award will be given to the girl who has shared her ideas, encourages others to be more active, and is a role model and inspiration to other protégés

Which protégé has inspired you most?*GIT will send survey via email to protégés*Protégés nominate up to 5 protégés. *Winner is announced during the final GIT session and on the GIT website

Check your emails!

GIT MS INSPIRATION AWARD

SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY

https://www.afceanova.org/scholarships

Merit Based Scholarship Award up to $2000

Basic Qualifications:- Be a US Citizen

- Live in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area- Will be pursuing a STEM-related degree at any accredited

university in the United States- Submit by February 25, 2015

For more info:

Key programmatic components of the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program include:

SKILLS: Seven weeks of intensive instruction in computer science, robotics,algorithms, web design, and mobile development.

EXPOSURE: Speakers, demos, workshops, and presentations from femaleengineers and entrepreneurs; field trips to technology companies, startups,academic institutions and more.

MENTORSHIP: Top female executives, entrepreneurs and engineers providecareer and academic mentorship.

More Information: https://girlswhocode.fluidreview.com/Register by 2/12/15 : https://girlswhocode.fluidreview.com/acc/r/

Free Registration: http://www.stemsymposium.com/

Activities for the day will include: • Hands-on STEM experiments• STEM exhibitors• Panel discussions with STEM Leaders• STEM-related high school and college

internships

EVENT:Saturday March 7, 2015

The Nysmith School13625 EDS Drive

Herndon, VA 20171

EVENT:

http://makerfairenova.com/attend/

Technology DemosLatest Inventions3D PrintersRocketsRoboticsDo It Your Self Projects

FIELD OF DREAMS

I want to make prosthetics for injured animals

I am excited about starting a STEM club at schoolI want to integrate STEM with music therapy

I aspire to create technologies that improves lives

I will design robots that help with medical proceduresI am going to be an environmental engineer to design greener cities

I am going to study cyber security to protect us in the virtual space

EVERYONE HAS DREAMS, PASSIONS, GOALS,

AMBITIONS, and IDEAS

WHY AREN’T YOU PURSUING THEM?WHY ARE YOU STOPPING?

WHY AREN’T YOU PERSERVERING?

• I am not ready• My parent’s won’t approve• It is too crazy of an idea• How will I afford it• What if it doesn’t work• No one will want it• There are competitors that are better• It’s too risky

#1 REASON: FEAR OF FAILURE

Education

People

Tools

Finances Experience

Innovative Idea

SUCCESS

PATH TO SUCCESS/PATH TO INNOVATION

Education

People

Tools

FinancesExperience

Innovative Idea

SUCCESSSuccessFailure

ACTUAL PATH TO SUCCESS/INNOVATION

ACTUAL PATH TO SUCCESS/INNOVATION

• It’s NOT what we thought it would look like• There are many challenges and obstacles• There are many failures along the way• Success doesn’t come easy• There is no one right way towards success

Success doesn’t come to you, YOU GO TO IT

…We should be teaching our students in STEM subjects:

how to fail. Right now, we do not explicitly teach our

students how to fail so that they can get right back up. That's

in direct conflict with our goal: to prepare students to play

competitively upon graduation. If our students are going to

stop deadly pandemics, solve the energy crisis, and cure

world hunger and poverty, they will have to be prepared to

fail, over and over—and more important, they will need to

know how to learn from those failures.

-Elizabeth Gerber, McCormick School of Engineering and School of Communication at Northwestern University, and founder of Design for America.

LEARN TO FAIL

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/11/23/stem-students-must-be-taught-to-fail

INNOVATION, NOT INSTANT PERFECTION"There are two different types of programmers. Some like to code for months or even years, and hope they will have built the perfect product. That's castle building…If you get it right and you've built just the perfect thing, you get this worldwide 'Wow!' The problem is, if you get it wrong, you get a thud, a thud in which you've spent, like, five years

and 100 people on something the market doesn't want. Others prefer to have something working at the end of the day, something to refine and improve the next day. That's what we do: our 'launch early and often' strategy. The hardest part about indoctrinating people into our culture is when engineers show me a prototype and I'm like, 'Great, let's go!' They'll say, 'Oh, no, it's not ready. It's not up to [company] standards. This doesn't look like a product yet.' They want to castle-build and do all these other features and make it all perfect. I tell them, 'The thing is to launch it early on [in] Labs and then iterate, learning what the market wants—and making it great.' The beauty of experimenting in this way is that you never get too far from what the market wants. The market pulls you back.“

"Innovation, not instant perfection. The key is iteration. Learn enough from your mistakes and from your users that you iterate quickly. You aren't perfect every single time. There are missteps along the way. Iterate or reinvent your way out of it.“

http://www.fastcompany.com/702926/marissa-mayers-9-principles-innovation

Marissa Mayer,

CEO of Yahoo!

HOW TO FAIL

When you fail Pick yourself back up Surround yourself with the right people

Have the guts to adjust from failure and get back on your path

Avoid making the same mistake. Be strategic. Have a plan. Take a different approach

Don’t try to do it by yourself. Success is easieras a team

If you fail again… Pick yourself up faster.Realize failure is all part of the success equation. Keep your eye on the prize

“I wouldn’t be where I am now if I didn’t fail... a lot. The good, the bad, it’s all part of the success equation.” – Mark Cuban, Owner of NBA Dallas Mavericks

“So it turns out that the cliché "When one door closes, another door opens" is more than a cliché after all. You just need to be confident enough to see that other open door. And that requires that you not stare at the closed door too long.” – Ekaterina Walter, author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller "Think Like Zuck“

“Failure is necessary for success, we must fail faster to succeed sooner” – Unknown

“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” – C.S. Lewis

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Edison

FAILING IS GOOD FOR SUCCESS

GIT Demo: ROBOTICS:

Mary Muldowney JarrattRobotics Coach

The Potomac School Robotics TeamSeyoungEmmaJasmineBeccaJessica Diya

Irene LaneGIT Moderator

MENTORING SESSIONSuggested discussion topics:* Share a personal failure story, how would you try it differently?* Share a personal success story, did you have any failures along the way?* Share some stories, tips, or advice from your mentor that has helped you

CLOSING

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REMINDERS:• SESSION 5: WED 3/11/15 @6PM

Graduation – How YOU Can Change the World• Miss Inspiration Nominations• GIT Scholarship entries

Embrace Fear

Learn to Fail

Be Innovative