A club for girl computer geeks. (notebook).

A club for girl computer geeks. (notebook). Susannah Camic was, in many ways, a typical female high school computer geek (jargon) computer geek - (Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfils all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. . When she joined an afterschool af��ter��school?adj. often after-school1. Taking place immediately following school classes: afterschool activities.2. computer club at her Madison, Wis., school, she felt shut out. Not only did the boys monopolize mo��nop��o��lize?tr.v. mo��nop��o��lized, mo��nop��o��liz��ing, mo��nop��o��liz��es1. To acquire or maintain a monopoly of.2. To dominate by excluding others: monopolized the conversation. the computers, but they spent most of their time playing games. She wrote of her woes in a term paper that ended up in the hands of a group of women technology instructors and engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison “University of Wisconsin” redirects here. For other uses, see University of Wisconsin (disambiguation).A public, land-grant institution, UW-Madison offers a wide spectrum of liberal arts studies, professional programs, and student activities. . "We have to do something about this," was the response, says Kathy Konicek, an adult with a bent for technology who is now the coordinator of what has become a computer club for girls. Camic, long gone from Madison and now a junior at Yale University Yale University,at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was , started something that has grown every year. The university women from Madison formed the Lilith Computer Group in 1997, targeting middle school girls interested in technology. "We focused on that age group because research tells us that it is during the middle school years that girls' confidence using [computers] starts to decline," says Konicek. Reaching girls in elementary school elementary school:see school. would be too soon; high school is too late, she says. Administrators train the club's 130 members to use software and help them complete computer projects. Because Lilith does not discriminate, a small number of boys have also joined. The club now meets at all but one of the 11 middle schools in Madison, up from six last year. Although the club does not officially meet at the high school level, the Lilith Computer Group added a high school mentoring program this year to encourage club alumni. The high school girls High School Girls (女子高生,Joshi Kōsei meet at least once every two months with a technology professional, or a woman from the University of Madison, to get advice on technology-related studies and technology careers. With six years of history behind it, Lilith does have some basic research on girls and computers. Girls are more interested in digital movie making and computer graphics; boys are drawn to games and computer programming. About 80 percent of girls say the club helped them be more confident with technology; about half credit the club with helping them get better grades. Forty-three percent of Lilith Computer Group participants used the Internet to help with school research and homework; only 29 percent of other girls surveyed said the same. www.madison.k12.wi.us/lilithclub/lilith.html