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Luz Rivas is the founder and executive director of DIY Girls, an organization aimed to increase women and girls’ interest in technology and engineering by providing hands-on educational experiences. The program encourages women and girls to explore technology, develop their self-esteem and then guides them towards STEM career fields. 

Learn more about DIYGirls’ programs and the Vaughn Next Century Learning Center in San Fernando, where girls learn skills from soldering electronics to using 3D printers. DIY Girls also offers monthly workshops for women interested in hands-on technical skills. 

Watch her full interview with Huffington Post. 

Do you know any inspirational women who are in STEM related career paths? Do you want to learn more about how to reach your educational goals? Visit the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museums’ iTunes U collections featuring ¡Chequea esto! (Check this Out!), a series of educational animated videos tackling issues popular among Latino youth. Topics include college applications, career paths, cultural tradition, and social media. Each video is quick, engaging, and fun!

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With a degree in Psychology from Harvard, Cindy Alvarez managed to immerse herself into the technology field from the early stages of her career. She started working for a design firm that created interactive tools for different video games, and from there she started her focus on UX. She was able to combine her knowledge in psychology with technology by understanding the needs of different types of users.

Alvarez is the current Director of UX and Product Design at Yammer, a Microsoft company. She recently wrote the book “Lean Customer Development: Build Products Your Customers Will Buy” a guide to create and develop products with a specific client in mind.

Read full article via CNet en Español (Ph. Credit: CNet en Español)

Do you know any inspirational women who are in STEM related career paths? Do you want to learn more about how to reach your educational goals? Visit the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museums’ iTunes U collections featuring ¡Chequea esto! (Check this Out!), a series of educational animated videos tackling issues popular among Latino youth. Topics include college applications, career paths, cultural tradition, and social media. Each video is quick, engaging, and fun!

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“The Little Girl Geek Wants to Play” a talk from Jennifer Argüello at the SheCodes Conference

Jennifer Argüello taught herself how to code at the age of 6. Her relationship with technology started at a very young age when she was exposed to a computer for the first time and she thought how fascinating it was to create her own world through a computer. Although she paused coding for some time, she got her degree in Computer Science and overcoming many difficulties she started working in the engineering field using always a huge supporting network that helped her continue moving forward.

Nowadays, Argüello is the Senior Technical Development Manager at GitHub. In addition, Argüello is part of the Silicon Valley Latino advisory board, an organization “committed to celebrate the stories of successful Latinas and Latinos, to challenge perceptions and inspire new generations of Latino heroes”.

Do you know any inspirational women who are in STEM related career paths? Do you want to learn more about how to reach your educational goals? Visit the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museums’ iTunes U collections featuring ¡Chequea esto! (Check this Out!), a series of educational animated videos tackling issues popular among Latino youth. Topics include college applications, career paths, cultural tradition, and social media. Each video is quick, engaging, and fun!

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These two Latinas were part of one of the recent biggest discoveries in science: the detection of gravitational waves that confirm many of Albert Einstein's theories about the universe.

Dr. Gabriela Gonzalez was born and raised in Cordoba, Argentina. She received her Masters degree from the University of Cordoba and a Ph.D. from Syracuse. She was the first woman to receive tenure at the LSU physics department.

Cordova was born in Paris, France, and her father is a Mexican-American. She received her bachelor’s degree from Stanford and a Ph.D. from Cal Tech. She was the first Latina chancellor of the University of California, Riverside.

Read full article here via @FoxLatino

Do you know any inspirational women who are in STEM related career paths? Do you want to learn more about how to reach your educational goals? Visit the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museums’ iTunes U collections featuring ¡Chequea esto! (Check this Out!), a series of educational animated videos tackling issues popular among Latino youth. Topics include college applications, career paths, cultural tradition, and social media. Each video is quick, engaging, and fun!

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