{"id":459,"date":"2011-09-18T10:55:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T10:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2012-08-05T10:36:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T10:36:09","slug":"147-marita-cheng-who-are-the-robogals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"147 &#8211; Marita Cheng &#8211; Who are the Robogals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s show, I speak to Marita Cheng, the founder of Robogals.  Topics we discuss include:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Marita&#8217;s background<br \/>\n&#8211; What inspired her to go into engineering?<br \/>\n&#8211; How did Robogals get started?<br \/>\n&#8211; What are the aims of Robogals?<br \/>\n&#8211; Who is it targeting?<br \/>\n&#8211; What does it do at schools?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is the international footprint of Robogals?<br \/>\n&#8211; The skills that Robogals teaches students and its own volunteers<br \/>\n&#8211; What are the statistics around females and studying technical courses?<br \/>\n&#8211; What other activities does Robogals provide?<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s listener of the episode is Brad Milne.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/predictabledata.com\/projects\/brainsmatter\/BM147-Robogals.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 147<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can donate by clicking on the button above, and subscribe by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=257301606\">subscribing in iTunes <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/iTunesWord.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s show, I speak to Marita Cheng, the founder of Robogals. Topics we discuss include: &#8211; Marita&#8217;s background &#8211; What inspired her to go into engineering? &#8211; How did Robogals get started? &#8211; What are the aims of Robogals? &#8211; Who is it targeting? &#8211; What does it do at schools? &#8211; What is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,16,20],"tags":[327,92,361,326,366,158,328,368,217,325,227,324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}