Transcript Technology is Happening!

Technology is Happening!
Expanding Your Horizons
March 2, 2002
Sarah Walczynski
Get Girls Interested in
Technology?!
What’s not to like???
This is what I used to think people
interested in technology looked like
This is what we really look like
Faster computers…better horses
Technology has 2 faces
• Technology itself
– Software
– Hardware
– Networks
• Technology used for
other purposes
– Teaching
– Training
– Communicating
My job is to be a bridge
between the folks who
make the technology
and the folks who need to
use the technology
We run the gamut !
Web servers, video, graphics, you name it…
Mathematicians
Geographers look at rainfall
And temperature changes
Geologists
Biologists
Psychologists
http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum2/neuro/neuron_1.html
Physicists
Magnetism of the earth
Philosophers
…and all of them are using the
internet to help communicate this
The beauty of technology is that
it changes every day
• It is changing
• It is evolving
• It is happening
I would like to have one of you
as a guest on my radio show
~We can tell people about some cool technology you got to play with today.~
…and the winner is
Thalia Alvaradoh