The Newsweek article Revenge of the Nerdette from the June 16th, 2008 issue, cites two outreach programs aimed at encouraging girls to think about science and technology careers. MAGIC is one of them!
Second year in a row, a BOF proposal on a MAGICal topic has been accepted at the Grace Hopper Conference. The topic of the BOF is "Setting Up an Effective Organization to Support Girls". This BOF will be held on Friday, October 3rd, from 5:10pm for an hour. More information on this can be found in the Conference Program Schedule.
In the fall of 2008, MAGIC is going to partner with Girls' Middle School of Palo Alto, California, to conduct a pilot of the MAGIC program. More information about Girls' Middle School can be found here. You can read all about the MAGIC pilot proposal here.
Following the project kickoff, MAGIC is undertaking the steps necessary to establish itself as a non-profit organization.
The MAGIC project was kicked off at the 2007 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) of Women in Computing Conference, which was held at Orlando, Florida, on October 18th., 2007.