Students regularly visit EPFL in Lausanne, but more boys than girls opt to go
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Only 15 percent of women in Switzerland are active in information technology, and only five percent of Swiss engineers are women. This brainpower deficit is addressed in Geneva for the first time by a leading US organization in the field, in a day of workshops in English and French for girls aged 11-15 and their parents. The workshops will be held at the International School of Geneva 14 November.
Expanding your horizons (EYH) chose Geneva, Switzerland to organize its first series of workshops in Europe. It regularly runs about 90 conferences a year in Asia and the USA to introduce girls to the sciences.
Participating girls choose workshops led by women who are recognized in their fields, says Jennifer Kealy, EYH Geneva conference chairwoman. The same subjects in school may be dry, but the workshops try to give young women a taste for the uses to which science and mathematics can be put in an environment that is dynamic and fun.
UN pin for San Francisco conference
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Architect Donal McLaughlin, who designed the symbol that was adopted by the United Nations, has died at his home in Maryland, USA, aged 102. He graduated from Yale University where his thesis was on circular graphics.
After working for the CIA’s forerunner, the OSS, where he was chief of graphics during the war, he was commissioned to come up with a pin that could identify delegates to the first UN conference in San Francisco, USA in 1945. The symbol of the continents seen from above the north pole, surrounded by olive leaves, was adopted by the new organization as its own. He also designed the courtroom for the Nuremburg war crimes trials.
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