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Celebrate the history of women in tech with LEGO! #WomenOfComputing was a @LEGOIdeas finalist; tweets by project creator @20tauri

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Sad to report the LEGO Women of Computing were not selected for production by @LEGOIdeas. While disappointing, I'd like to thank the thousands of you who voted for and promoted this set! I'll continue to post here about women in tech from time to time. 👩🏻‍💻👩🏼‍💻🧑🏽‍💻👩🏾‍💻🧑🏿‍💻
Five vignettes with six women and their computing machines

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Lego Women of Computing retweeted
Maia Portell Weinstock ✨@20tauri8 Aug 2022
Please help the Women's Brick Initiative with their new research on diversity in LEGO Minifigures by taking this brief survey: forms.gle/8E632XRi9w6rpD5d8 📷: Brick Alliance
Seven monochrome LEGO Minifigures in realistic skin tones, from pink to tan to light brown to dark brown, on a white background

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MIT CSAIL
@MIT_CSAIL8 Apr 2022
"The Computer Girls," was a 1967 Cosmopolitan piece about a strange new field dominated by women. It was called programming: bit.ly/2xwrJ1c
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ARCHIVED: Jen Easterly@CISAJen21 Mar 2022
❤️Got to hang with one of my heroes this morning, the ever inspiring @DrTarikaBarrett. So excited about our partnership with @GirlsWhoCode. Together, we’re closing the gender gap in cybersecurity…#50x30!
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Maia Portell Weinstock ✨@20tauri21 Mar 2022
As many of you know, the @LegoCSWomen were ultimately not selected for production. But my day was just made after receiving these fine sets for being a @LEGOIdeas finalist. Thank you, @LEGO_Group!
Photo showing Lego's Space shuttle, Elvis Presley, and Statue of Liberty sets

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In this exclusive interview with @ComputerHistory , iconic computer scientist Margaret Hamilton remembers a woman role model, who became a major influence on her career choice: bit.ly/36oxmUZ #SheIsWhyICode
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Thank you.
Patricia Vella@PatriciaVella22 Feb 2022
Replying to @LegoCSWomen @LEGOIdeas
How disappointing, LEGO Women of Computing would have been awesome sets. Admiral Grace Hopper’s long association with Digital Equipment was such an inspiration when I worked there early in my career #WomenInSTEM
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Maia Portell Weinstock ✨@20tauri21 Feb 2022
"Hundreds of thousands ... contributed to Apollo over a decade. Among them: the Navajo women who assembled state-of-the-art integrated circuits for the Apollo Guidance Computer and the women employees of Raytheon who wove the computer’s core memory." sciencenews.org/article/core…

Core memory weavers and Navajo women made the Apollo missions possible

The stories of the women who assembled integrated circuits and wove core memory for the Apollo missions remain largely unknown.

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Pioneering mathematician and programmer @DrGladysBWest is best known for developing the computer model that became the foundation for the Global Positioning System (GPS), which provides geolocation information for countless applications. #BlackHistoryMonth
LEGO vignette featuring Gladys West standing next to a LEGO globe surrounded by small satellites

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Black and white photo of Gladys West looking at a chart of data. Next to her is a large globe of the Earth

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LEGO vignette featuring Annie Easley in a light cyan control room

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NASA
@NASA8 Feb 2022
Hired in 1955 as a human computer, Annie Easley led a 34-year NASA career developing software code for numerous programs. Her work on the Centaur rocket booster framed the technical foundation for launching future satellites: go.nasa.gov/3J50ZsC #BlackHistoryMonth
Annie Easley in a pink suit and inside an old computer lab with computers the size of a small house.

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Among many other accomplishments, computer scientist Annie Easley (1933-2011) developed software for Centaur upper-stage rockets, which launched space probes to Mars and the outer solar system and helped lay the foundations for launching NASA's space shuttles. #BlackHistoryMonth
LEGO vignette featuring a minifigure of Annie Easley in a light cyan control room with buttons and gauges on the walls and a rocket model in the background

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This week we celebrate the late Jean Jennings Bartik (b. 12/27/24), who co-led coding of ENIAC, the first programmable general-purpose digital computer! 🎂 We'll soon learn whether this vignette featuring ENIAC, Bartik, and programmer Betty Holberton will become a real LEGO set.
LEGO vignette featuring minifigures of Jean Jennings Bartik and Betty Holberton working the knobs of the room-sized ENIAC computer

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Lego Women of Computing retweeted
SRS @ UCSD@SallyRideSci15 Dec 2021
Maia Weinstock @20tauri created the concept for #LEGO Women of NASA set, which includes a Sally Ride minifigure. Now Weinstock has proposed a LEGO set honoring Women of Computing. Read a @LEGOIdeas blog about how she uses LEGOs to celebrate #WomenInSTEM: bit.ly/3luQp4H
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FindingAda@FindingAda10 Dec 2021
Happy birthday Ada Lovelace! Born today in 1815. Find out more about Ada with this chapter written by @Suw from our book "A Passion For Science: Tales of Discovery and Invention" findingada.com/shop/a-passio…
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🎂 Happy birthday to Ada Lovelace, 19th c. mathematician and visionary who predicted what computers could do beyond basic calculations. Joining her w/this partial model of the Analytical Engine is her cat, Mrs. Puff. We should know soon whether this will become a real LEGO set!
LEGO model of the Analytical Engine with a minifigure of Ada Lovelace as well as a small LEGO cat

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Prof. Nikolai Slavov
@slavov_n9 Dec 2021
Today is the birthday of Grace Hopper. A brilliant woman. She was a computer pioneer who invented one of the first linkers and devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages.
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Happy birthday to the iconic computing pioneer Grace Hopper, born #OTD in 1906! 🎂 Learn about the objects in this vignette, currently in @LEGOIdeas review with our proposed Women of Computing set: flic.kr/p/2kNCDTn
LEGO vignette featuring Grace Hopper in a naval uniform. She is standing in front of a UNIVAC computer as well as a desk with items including a pirate flag, moth, and backward clock.

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Did you know? #CSEdWeek coincides with the birthdays of noted computing pioneers Grace Hopper (Dec. 9) and Ada Lovelace (Dec. 10). Learn how to take part with @CSEdWeek and @HourofCode!
Lego minifigure in the likeness of Grace Hopper, who is wearing a U.S. Navy outfit and holding a coiled wire

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Lego minifigure likeness of Ada Lovelace, who is wearing an old-timey dress and holding some technical notes on a piece of yellowing paper

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Happy Computer Science Education Week! Enjoy these free posters of some modern-day computing superheroes: csedweek.org/teach #CSEdWeek
Poster featuring photos and descriptions of 12 individuals who work in computing today

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