Engineer or princess? Why your kids shouldn’t be forced to choose

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by Sindy Cator on March 4, 2016 at 10:48 am

Sara Chipps is the co-founder and CEO of Jewelbots. Jewelbots are open source, programmable friendship bracelets that teach teens the basics of coding. Sara will be speaking at TNW Europe in Amsterdam this May, alongside 130 other top-flight speakers. I’ve spent the past year talking to a LOT of parents and their kids for Jewelbots. Scratch that, I’ve spent the last year talking to lots of parents and their daughters. Because of my network, many of these parents happen to be developers or have technology adjacent roles. The ones who have daughters in our demo always light up when we tell…