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Job Shadow Opportunity for IGNITE-us.org's Early Adopters

On behalf of IGNITE Founder Cathi Rodgveller, a hearty welcome to
IGNITE-us.org! Congratulations for being one of the "early adopters"
of the new website. As you are part of the first group of students to
sign up and create your account, IGNITE would like to extend to you a
personal invitation to a Job Shadow at Microsoft on March 11.

To accept this invitation, log in to the IGNITE-us.org website and
fill out the Job Shadow Request form, located at
http://www.ignite-us.org/node/add/stu-jobshadow-form.

Once you submit your completed form, Cathi will be contacting you with

Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Conference

Event Date: 
February 20, 2010 - 8:30am - 5:00pm
Location: 
University of Washington, Student Union building
Presenters: 
Women in Science and Engineering

The College of Engineering, Student Academic Services (SAS) presents:
The 19th Annual Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Conference
WiSE: A Catalyst for Change

Please sign up with Ms. Osara at Hale HS
write to her at slosara@seattleschools.org
Send her your name, school, grade, e-mail address and phone number.

This event is limited to 30 attendants, so sign up early!

Questions? E-mail IGNITE Director Cathi Rodgveller at cathi@ignite-us.org

Garfield High School Presentation, October 27th, 2009

Event Date: 
October 27, 2009 - 9:00am - 11:00am
Location: 
Garfield High School
Presenters: 
Nora Duffy, Martine

Hi All, We had a great event today at Garfield. This group of girls were very interested in IGNITE and being part of all we do. It was a great group. They wanted to ask lots of questions and I wished we had more time. Thank you to all the speakers who attended this event today: Nora Duffy, Intellectual Property. Nora is a long time volunteer who inspires girls to learn about all their career choices in the technology field. She shares her story to show girls that having the motivation to learn about technology careers will pay off for them for so many reasons.

Microsoft Field Trip-Garfield High School

Event Date: 
April 6, 2010 - 9:00am - 3:00pm
Location: 
Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA
Presenters: 
Cathi Rodgveller

We had a fantastic day yesterday at Microsoft.
It was a wonderful group of young women who attended.
At least 6 of them from Ms. Martins computer science class at
Garfield have already applied for the Microsoft summer internship.
She is an inspirational Computer Science teacher who studied
Computer Science at the UW and chose to be in the classroom. Helene
is an everyday heroine, supporting her students passion for technology.
Ms. Helene Martin even participated in IGNITE when she was in

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