Make: Geek Girl's Guide to Geek Women

Great resource! This could make a good weekend project for a hacker girls club, or a good badge for a scout meetup, or whatever. Probable best ages would be ~middle schoolers?

Basically:
- 4 very brief chapters, each with an intro of an illustrious woman of technology + coupled with a small-scale hands-on application of that woman's work

Naturally Ada Lovelace shows up - she is EVERYWHERE in “women in tech” world - so I appreciated that I hadn't heard of the other 3. And I especially appreciated the DEEP CUT CRAZINESS of Hildegard von Bingen, omg THAT WAS A WACKY BIO. She was locked in a cell for 30+ years with another nun cuz... cuz it was the 11th century and that seemed like a good idea???? She had visions and sent much unsolicited advice via mail to the leaders of her time????? The project for her chapter was “make up a secret language” but HAAAAHA why not “lock yourself in your room and hallucinate”?! Or actually why not “write your political representatives”, hey that's a good one.

Maria Telkes was a fun one too - and after the Katalin Kariko bio, I am feeling very warm towards Hungarian women scientists. Her chapter's project was also EXCELLENT: a solar-powered desalination thingie. Since I was and am still on my eco-warrior, Ministry for the Future high, that felt very apropos (and also very doable).