The Sixth annual Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering – a live webcast and teleconference – will take place in Europe on Thursday March 11.
The Global Marathon is a free, 24 hour live webcast; Internet Chat and teleconference event themed ‘Launching Tomorrow’. It is managed by volunteer Chairs in each continent who arrange for four hours of live internet or telephone chat from their region as it follows the sun around the globe. Sessions will come from China; India; North America; South America; Africa and Europe/Middle East sponsored by companies such as Rockwell Collins; IBM; Motorola; BP; Verizon; DuPont and others but anyone anywhere can join any session to connect the world.
Topics included tips on heightening awareness of science, technology, engineering activities in schools and industry. Senior women in different sectors will discuss their achievements and challenges and examining issues such as retaining women in engineering programs and the workplace. The event will be hosted at the Big Bang Fair in Manchester which will be attended by 15000 schoolchildren; parents and teachers and will connect women everywhere.
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