Staying Perpetually Inspired: Ada Lovelace Day

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    1. Staying Perpetually Inspired Ada Lovelace Day: Creating new role models for women in technology Stephanie Troeth Creacamp, March 28th 2009
    2. Hi, I’m Steph. best web practices advocate, blogger, computer scientist, crafter, educator, jeweller, musician, perfumer, photographer, poet, polyglot, product manager, project manager, speaker, traveller, user experience designer, volunteer, writer, web developer.
    3. Ada Lovelace Day March 24th, 2009
    4. Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine A modern model from The Science Museum, London.
    5. Finding Ada
    6. The beginning, the pledge
    7. How did we do it?
    8. What happened?
    9. What happened? http://ada.pint.org.uk/
    10. What’s the point? What did we achieve?
    11. I want to bring out beauty in ordinary things
    12. Technology is in all that we engineer, build and make.
    13. We can choose to be mediocre.
    14. Or we can choose to create the extraordinary that touches the lives of others.
    15. What challenges do we set for ourselves?
    16. How do we break our own boundaries?
    17. Who inspired you?
    18. Inspire others.
    19. Thank you. Stephanie Troeth Twitter: @sniffles Email: steph@unadorned.org http://stephanietroeth.com/ http://hippiesque.com/ http://unadorned.org/ Book Oven http://blog.bookoven.com/ Finding Ada / Ada Lovelace Day More thanks! Twitter: @findingada http://www.flickr.com/photos/3fold/437853495/ http://findingada.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_engine http://ada.pint.org.uk/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
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