On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 18:53:50 +0200, Guido Arnold wrote: > Hello Otto, > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 04:24:35PM +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: >> 2014-09-26 1:43 GMT+03:00 Guido Arnold <[email protected]>: >>> We would like to encourage everybody to participate in one of the >>> existing events to make sure that Free Software will not remain >>> unknown to these kids. As they are already interested in coding, it >> >> My club here in Tampere will participate and the site koodikerho.fi >> will heavily promote free and open software. > > Great news! :) > >> The club started 2 weeks ago and we have 13 children fron the 3rd >> grade (9-year olds), they are progressing nicely and surprisingly the >> majority is girls! > > Wow, that's even better news! As you write "surprisingly", does that > mean you won't tell us the secret how you did that? > > Or is the education system and society in Finland just so awesome > that girls aren't subliminally told tech stuff is nothing for them? > I think I've got to visit you one day...
Given Otto's surprised I'd say it's more likely they haven't been told often enough yet that tech stuff isn't for them. @Otto: and in the interest of that I would suggest not to show your surprise of how good they are whilst being girls. As a female classmate in CS once told me that she thought the constant surprise about how good she was (in spite of being a girl), was amongst the most off-putting behaviours she got exposed to. -- Met vriendelijke groet, With kind regards, Giel van Schijndel -- "A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it." -- Albert Einstein
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