9th Grade Girls Soldering

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by nmorell • 12 years ago

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leoc2• 12 years ago

"Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /pages/sliceofmit/2014/07/15/yougogirl/ on this server."

imacomputer22• 12 years ago

Well, of course I don't have permission. I'm a dude, and there are already too many dudes in STEM. /sarcasm

imacomputer22• 12 years ago

This was a clever comment and arguably a hack. I do not appreciate being down-voted for it. Can we lighten up a little?

michaelt• 12 years ago

Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

leoc2• 12 years ago

You can even just paste the URL and it will work. Apparently some clever-dick is looking at referrer information.

JamesArgo• 12 years ago

Use lead-free solder folks; I strongly believe we should keep lead solder the hell away from children.

bdamm• 12 years ago

Yeah but have you actually used lead-free solder? It'll increase the burns and also create goopy messes of melted plastic and the tears of children.

gizmo686• 12 years ago

How dangoureous do you think lead is? Ignoring its temperature, lead is only danguarous if you injest it (or breathe it). I think 9th graders can handle not stick solder in their mouths and washing their hands when they are done (not that the minute exposure they would get otherwise would be noticable). If they cannot handle this, I have serious concerns about giving them soldering irons.

drz18• 12 years ago

Or, you know, leave everyone to their own devices, and let people choose the fields that engage them.

Males and females are not equal, in metabolism, strength, ability, or anything else. They have equal rights, but this does not mean that they deserve equal representation in all fields. Those with the highest merit deserve representation. Trying to fight this simple fact is the height of folly.

sdfghhasdf• 12 years ago

amen.

tomp• 12 years ago

Males and females are not equal, in metabolism, strength, ability, or anything else.

More generally, people are not the same (I prefer "same" to "equal").

pokpokpok• 12 years ago

Or, you know, leave everyone to their own devices, and let people choose the fields that engage them.

blacks and whites are not equal, in metabolism, strength, ability, or anything else. They have equal rights, but this does not mean that they deserve equal representation in all fields. Those with the highest merit deserve representation. Trying to fight this simple fact is the height of folly.

drz18• 12 years ago

Sure. West Africans are very successful in all forms of running, for example. Are you going to deny this?

ambrice• 12 years ago

How will they know if the field engages them without being exposed to it?

drz18• 12 years ago

None of us here got recruited into the field, and we still found out that it engaged us, didn't we?

steveklabnik• 12 years ago

Until you've demonstrated programming has some biological basis, this 'argument' is absolutely ridiculous.

crazy1van• 12 years ago

I think it's less about ability and more about interest.

drz18• 12 years ago

Men absolutely dominate in the 120+ IQ range, and high IQ is very strongly correlated with abstract reasoning.

rflrob• 12 years ago

While it's true that women and men aren't the same, I think that there are good reasons to believe the level of inequality we have now is not due solely to natural inclination. This video of Neil deGrasse Tyson on minorities and science is apropos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ihNLEDiuM

sp33217• 12 years ago

leave everyone to their own devices

Tons of men are recruited to the field, why not women?

drz18• 12 years ago

Show me these magical affirmative action programs targeting straight white men.

Zelphyr• 12 years ago

I believe the sentiment is to at least expose girls to these fields more than we have. Whether they enter them as a career is of course their choice.

drz18• 12 years ago

The field isn't hidden. It's already exposed to males and females in equivalent amounts.

jonmrodriguez• 12 years ago

In today's world, it's valuable / necessary to teach a 2nd style of soldering as well: using a heat gun and solder paste to manually reflow surface-mount components. It's just as easy as using a soldering iron, and for many cases much easier! And it's the only way to solder modern chips.

Also I agree with JamesArgo, always use lead-free solder.

9th Grade Girls Soldering

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