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Posted by Colin Chisolm, Herald Community Writer on April 10, 2013 in Graduate, Students, Women in Tech, Speakers, Students, News, Undergraduate
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The Women Talk Tech events happen once each semester, each with a different theme.

Leah Brown, fourth year computer science student and President of DalWiTS said the events help break down some of the stigma associated with the tech sector.

ā€œComputer science has a stereotype that the program is going to be filled with geeky boys who donā€™t talk,ā€ she said. ā€œEducating girls in tech isnā€™t always talked about that much, and itā€™s important to draw attention to that because thereā€™s definitely a gap in the number of guys to girls.ā€

Brown said they picked the theme after choosing the speakers and realizing theyā€™re all involved with teaching women in technology.

The speakers were: Rose Behar - co-founder of CompCamp, Rachel Aaron - lead of Ladies Learning Code Halifax chapter, Tanya Poulton - Program Coordinator with WISE Atlantic and Emily Boucher -Executive Director of CanWIT.