Girl Computers - A Concept for Linking The Story of "Women Computers" Across the Generations, Girls, Inc., San Antonio, Texas, November 11, 2011 Jim Brazell led a dozen workshops on STEM strategy in 2012 for groups ranging from national associations to school districts. In these workshops, the audience is convened to design the future of STEM education. Five of the twelve 2012 audiences designed coloring books for children in 4th grade to 7th grade. Jim has also discovered that there is no career reader for this same age group related to cyber/IT. For the past 100 years, San Antonio has pioneered the future. Cyber Girls is a way to bring this story to the attention of the city’s children, teachers, and schools. At a very low cost, Cyber Girls delivers a blended learning curricula connecting classroom and online activities. CyberGirls is a coloring book featuring computer history, art, and brain game activities on paper while linking to the free online virtual world of Whyville and Whycareers. The target demographic is 7-to-12 year old girls and boys and their teachers in school (as well as girls STEM camps and related programs). While initially delivering a local San Antonio coloring book, Cyber Girls is designed to be a national brand and product sold through teacher supply stores and a network of teacher professional development specialists.

1. Cyber Girls
A concept for
linking the story
of women in
computing across
generations.
DaVinci Minds, Inc.
Cliff Zintgraff and
Jim Brazell

2. Jim Brazell led a dozen workshops on
STEM strategy in 2012 for groups
ranging from national associations to
school districts. In these workshops, the
audience is convened to design the
future of STEM education. Five of the
twelve 20112 audiences designed
coloring books for children in 4th grade
to 7th grade. Jim has also discovered
that there is no career reader for this
same age group related to cyber/IT.
Girls Inc., San Antonio, TX, 11/19/2012

3. CONCEPT - Cyber Girls
A coloring book linked to Whyville
computational thinking simulations
and WhyCareers activities online.
30 pages - 6 sections - 5 pages
5 profiles of modern women of
information technology nationally.
5 women of technology from San
Antonio and TX history.
*Possible start of a women in technology series
segmented by target industries, stories, and
activities.

4. Welcome! Whyville is a virtual world geared for teen and pre-teen girls and boys.
Whyville's millions of registered "citizens" come from all over to learn, create, and have fun together. Whyville is
their world. Whyville has places to go, things to do, and of course, people to see. Whyville has its own newspaper,
its own Senators, its own beach, museum, City Hall and town square, its own suburbia, and even its own economy -
citizens earn "clams" by playing educational games. And much, much, much more! Joining Whyville is free. The
primary support for Whyville comes from its sponsors.
Whyville & WhyCareers

5. For the past 100 years, San
Antonio has pioneered the
future. Cyber Girls is a way to
bring this story to the
attention of the city’s children,
teachers, and schools. At a
very low cost, Cyber Girls
delivers a blended learning
curricula connecting
classroom and online
activities.
CyberGirls is a coloring book
featuring computer history,
art, and brain game activities
on paper while linking to the
free online virtual world of
Whyville and Whycareers.
The target demographic is 7-
to-12 year old girls and boys
and their teachers in school
(as well as girls STEM camps
and related programs).
While initially delivering a
local San Antonio coloring
book, Cyber Girls is designed
to be a national brand and
product sold through teacher
supply stores and a network
of teacher professional
development specialists.

7. What do you
think of
when I say
computer?
CONCEPT
Feedback/questions to
jimbrazell@ventureramp.com

8. http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/03/23/computers.bartik.obit/index.html
Cyber Girls: The story of the first women computers.
The first computers were women who wrote computer languages and mathematical calculations by hand. The first computer
algorithm (or “program”) was written by Ada Lovelace in 1843. During the 1890 Census, women computers processed the
equivalent in punch cards stacked to the height of the Empire State building daily. In 1945, the women computers of the war
effort were recruited to become the programmers of the first supercomputer. 1/5 the size of a football field, the lights of West
Philadelphia would dim when the machine was turned on. A modern wonder, the ENIAC was a 1,000 fold faster than the
mechanical calculators it replaced. Learn more with the 2010 Documentary: Top Secret Rosie’s http://technicallyphilly.com/
2010/09/22/top-secret-rosies-documentary-tells-story-of-women-computers-in-wwii

9. Ada Lovelace
wrote first computer
program/algorithm.

10. http://www.officemuseum.com/data_processing_machines.htm
http://www.oz.net/~markhow/writing/holl.htm
The Punched Card's Pedigree
Hollerith’s 1890 census device proved
the feasibility of punched cards for big
projects. And his Tabulating Machine
Company helped make cards the
primary data storage system for 80
years. But Hollerith didn’t invent the
idea.
In the early 1800s, mechanized looms
stored textile patterns using punched
cards. Charles Babbage’s un-built
Analytical Engine featured a card
reader. Even player pianos stored
melodies using holes in paper
http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/punch
1890 Census, Hollerith’s Punch Cards

11. The first programmers started out as "Computers." This was the name
given by the Army to a group of over 80 women working at the University
of Pennsylvania during World War II calculating ballistics trajectories -
complex differential equations - by hand. When the Army agreed to fund an
experimental project, the first all-electronic digital computer, six
"Computers" were selected in 1945 to be its first programmers. They were
Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Jean Jennings Bartik, Frances Snyder
Holberton, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Frances Bilas Spence and Ruth
Lichterman Teitelbaum. AUDIO HISTORY - http://www.witi.com/center/witimuseum/
halloffame/1997/eniac.php
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/03/23/computers.bartik.obit/index.html
ENIACVIDEO - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPweFhhXFvY

12. Women of cyber - linking the story across generations.

13. Dr. Susan Naylor
& Dawn K Garcia
“...contribution of a method
for speeding the indexing of
the human genome project.”
-verify
San Antonio, TX
Dr. Susan Naylor
UTHSC
CONCEPT

14. Lynn A Dugle
Vice President
Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems
Dallas, TX
Lynn A. Dugle is a Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN)
vice president and president of Raytheon
Intelligence and Information Systems (IIS).
Prior to her role at IIS, Dugle was vice president,
Engineering, Technology and Quality for Raytheon
Network Centric Systems, and was responsible for
the function’s strategic direction, leadership and
operations. Before joining Raytheon, Dugle held
officer-level positions with ADC Telecommunications
and served as a Texas Instruments vice president for
Quality at the Defense Systems and Electronics
Group. Dugle earned two bachelor’s degrees from
Purdue University and an MBA from the University of
Texas at Dallas.
http://stemconnector.org/lynn-dugle-Raytheon
CONCEPT

15. MAJOR GENERAL SUZANNE M. "ZAN" VAUTRINOT
Maj. Gen. Suzanne M. "Zan" Vautrinot is the Commander, 24th Air Force;
and Commander, Air Forces Cyber; and Commander, Air Force Network
Operations, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. General Vautrinot is
responsible for the Air Force's component numbered air force providing
combatant commanders with trained and ready cyber forces which plan
and conduct cyberspace operations. Twenty-fourth Air Force personnel
extend, maintain and defend the Air Force portion of the Department of
Defense global network. The general directs the activities of three
operational cyber wings, two headquartered at Lackland, and one at
Robins AFB, Ga., as well as the 624th Operations Center at Lackland.
SAN ANTONIO, TX
http://www.spacefoundation.org/media/news-briefs/vautrinot-calls-defense-offense
CONCEPT

16. STEM STRATEGY
The influence of computer
technology is everywhere.
What are STEM jobs and
where do women and cyber
fit in?

17. 5.5% STEM JOBS
5.5% of U.S. Workforce,
7.6MM STEM Jobs in
2010
David Langdon, George McKittrick, David Beede, Beethika Khan, and Mark Doms, “STEM: Good Jobs Now and for
the Future.” US Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration last accessed online October 28,
2012 http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/reports/documents/stemfinalyjuly14_1.pdf

18. ½ of STEM Jobs are
CYBER (Network and
Information Tech)
David Langdon, George McKittrick, David Beede, Beethika Khan, and Mark Doms, “STEM: Good Jobs Now and for
the Future.” US Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration last accessed online October 28,
2012 http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/reports/documents/stemfinalyjuly14_1.pdf
5.5% STEM JOBS

19. ANTHONY P. CARNEVALE NICOLE SMITH MICHELLE MELTON,
“Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics”,
Georgetown University, Center on Education and the
Workforce, October 20, 2012 last accessed October 28, 2012 at
http://cew.georgetown.edu/stem/.

20. David Beede, Tiffany Julian, David Langdon, George McKittrick, Beethika Khan, and Mark Doms, Office of the Chief
Economist, “Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation.” US Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics
Administration last accessed online October 28, 2012 http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/reports/documents/
womeninstemagaptoinnovation8311.pdf

21. David Beede, Tiffany Julian, David Langdon, George McKittrick, Beethika Khan, and Mark Doms, Office of the Chief
Economist, “Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation.” US Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics
Administration last accessed online October 28, 2012 http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/reports/documents/
womeninstemagaptoinnovation8311.pdf

22. STEM STRATEGY
Cyber Girls, STEM Girls,
Space Girls... Oh my!

23. In the NSF-funded Bringing
Up Girls in Science (BUGS)
study, 4th and 5th grade girls
receiving a sustained
intervention had more
positive views of science and
related careers eight years
after the intervention.
(Tyler-Wood, Ellison, Lim and
Periathiruvadi, 2012).

24. CONCEPT - Cyber Girls
A coloring book linked to Whyville
computational thinking simulations
and WhyCareers activities online.
30 pages - 6 sections - 5 pages
5 profiles of modern women of
information technology nationally.
5 women of technology from San
Antonio and TX history.
*Possible start of a women in technology series
segmented by target industries, stories, and
activities.

25. Welcome! Whyville is a virtual world geared for teen and pre-teen girls and boys.
Whyville's millions of registered "citizens" come from all over to learn, create, and have fun together. Whyville is
their world. Whyville has places to go, things to do, and of course, people to see. Whyville has its own newspaper,
its own Senators, its own beach, museum, City Hall and town square, its own suburbia, and even its own economy -
citizens earn "clams" by playing educational games. And much, much, much more! Joining Whyville is free. The
primary support for Whyville comes from its sponsors.
Whyville & WhyCareers

26. cyberSTEM Strategy
Link coloring book to
existing Whyville
computational thinking
simulations for information
technology (cyber) in
scientific experiments,
health, engineering, biomed,
energy, and more....

27. cyberSTEM Strategy
There are between 3.8 (U.S.) and 5.8 (O.E.C.D.) million
people in the U.S. employed in NIT.
Computer and mathematical occupations are projected to
add 785,700 new jobs from 2008 to 2018.
As a group, these jobs are forecast to grow more than
twice as fast as the average for all occupations in the
economy.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-nitrd-report-2010.pdf

28. STEM(x) Strategy
Link coloring book to
Whyville computational
thinking simulations for
citizenship, financial
management, nutrition,
and oceanography.

29. Technology impacts all jobs and academic disciplines—all aspects
of life. Cyber is the common thread to STEM and virtually all jobs.
STEM(x) Strategy
5.5% of Jobs in U.S.
workforce are STEM. 7.6MM
STEM jobs (2010) U.S.
Department of Commerce,
Economics and Statistics
Administration, STEM Jobs
Now and for the Future), 2010
2010, 5.5% of U.S. Workforce

30. Input
Output
Process
WHAT’s NEW - CONCEPT
Embedded workbook pages for activities related to
learning about systems theory, algorithms, and logic.
Correlated to common core and emerging computational
thinking theory and standards in partnership with the
Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) and the
Software Engineering Society (SES). Possible
collaboration with International Society for Technology in
Education SIG for Computational thinking (conferencing
in San Antonio 2013, 2017, 2021).

31. How has DaVinci Minds
been part of STEM in San
Antonio and nationally?

32. DaVinci Minds is a lead project coordinator for TWC innovation education program for
middle school math, science and career supplementals (2009-20012). The company
is currently delivering the final phase of Next Generation Learning Challenge Grant,
funded by the Gates and Hewlett Foundations, to translate the TWC TX product to
meet national Common Core Standards for middle school math education. Whyville
serves an audience that is 60% female and typically 11-13 years of age.

33. DaVinci Minds, St Mary’s University, and the Society for Design and
Process Science designed an introduction to electronics and systems
design for middle school students during the summer of 2012.

34. Cyber Patriot
highschoolcdc.com
Cliff Zintgraff was founding industry chair of the Information
Technology and Security Academy (ITSA).
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Students-hoping-to-ridethe-cybersecurity-wave-1043235.php#ixzz1IBe4Gqls

35. DaVinci Minds has
collaborated and been part of
the Texas Institute for
Educational Robotics and
sapceTEAMS with ACCD’s
Andrew Schuetze since the
inception of the program in
2006.