{"id":4003,"date":"2018-12-21T12:44:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T17:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:34:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:34:17","slug":"robotics-engineer-barbie-joins-the-girls-who-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2018\/12\/21\/robotics-engineer-barbie-joins-the-girls-who-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotics engineer Barbie joins the girls who code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-people-barbie\/robotics-engineer-barbie-joins-the-girls-who-code-idUSKBN1JM2Y3\">Reuters<\/a><br \/>\nJune 26, 2018<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.tv\/v\/eaC\/2018\/06\/28\/barbie-ventures-into-computer-coding\">Video Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) &#8211; Barbie, the world\u2019s most iconic doll, is venturing into coding skills in her latest career as a robotics engineer.<\/p>\n<p>The new doll, launched on Tuesday, aims to encourage girls as young as seven to learn real coding skills, thanks to a partnership with the kids game-based computing platform Tynker, toymaker Mattel said.<\/p>\n<p>Robotics engineer Barbie, dressed in jeans, a graphic T-shirt, denim jacket and wearing safety glasses, comes with six free Barbie-inspired coding lessons designed to teach logic, problem solving and the building blocks of coding.<\/p>\n<p>The lessons show girls, for example, how to build robots, get them to move at a dance party, or do jumping jacks.<\/p>\n<p>According to U.S. Department of Commerce statistics, only 24 percent of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) jobs were held by women in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Barbie has held more than 200 careers in her almost 60-year life, including president, video game developer and astronaut.<\/p>\n<p>Tynker co-funder Krishna Vedati said in a statement that the company\u2019s mission to empower youth worldwide made Barbie an ideal partner \u201cto help us introduce programming to a large number of kids in a fun engaging way.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Reuters June 26, 2018 Video Link LOS ANGELES (Reuters) &#8211; Barbie, the world\u2019s most iconic doll, is venturing into coding skills in her latest career as a robotics engineer. The new doll, launched on Tuesday, aims to encourage girls &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2018\/12\/21\/robotics-engineer-barbie-joins-the-girls-who-code\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-teaching_tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4738,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions\/4738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}