Showing posts with label Intel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Intel. Show all posts

Monday, November 18, 2013

Engineering for Kids in Entrepreneur Magazine

Engineering for Kids in Entrepreneur Magazine in an article titled, "Intel Engineer Shares Her Passion With the Next Generation." The article talks focused on Shu-ling Garver, a native of China, who came to the U.S. in 1986 after receiving a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from a university in Shanghai. Once arriving in the United States, she received both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Engineering. Garver has worked for Intel since 1989 as an engineering manager and marketing manager enabling the industry with Intel Architecture. At Intel, she also dedicated herself to engaging female engineers, mentoring them and getting young girls involved in the industry. With this background, becoming an owner for Engineering for Kids was a perfect fit.  Click here for the entire article or begin below.
By: Jason Dailey


When Shu-ling Garver was growing up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, opportunity was not a word she understood. Her father, an English teacher by profession, was labeled a political enemy and forced to dig tunnels. The family lived in a Shanghai back alley. It was a terrible time, but the little girl studied hard and learned English from her father and the radio.

Garver appeared to have no chance of making it out of the slums. But when she turned 17, she was surprised to learn that she was allowed to apply for college. After completing two years at a technical school in Shanghai, she transferred to Portland State University in Oregon, where she graduated in 1989 with a degree in computer science. She was recruited by Intel and has been working for the chip manufacturer ever since.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Engineering for Kids Featured on CNNMoney.com

Engineering for Kids was recently featured on CNNMoney.com in an article titled, "Executive by day, entrepreneur by  night". The article features various profiles of professionals who work full time careers and run a small business on the side. Featured for EFK is franchisee Shu-ling Garver. Shu-ling notes that she was the first Engineering For Kids franchisee and that her experience with the brand has been highly rewarding.
 
Click HERE for the full article or begin reading below:

Executive by day, entrepreneur by night

These seven moonlighters are pursuing big professional careers -- and their entrepreneurial dreams.



Intel engineer turned franchisee

Name: Shu-Ling Garver
Day job: Engineering manager with Intel
Side business: Engineering for Kids franchisee
Shu-Ling Garver has made it her mission at Intel to mentor women in the industry and get young kids, especially girls, excited about engineering.

Friday, January 25, 2013

Engineering for Kids featured in Huffington Post

Dori Roberts, founder of Engineering for Kids, recently wrote an article for the Huffington Post's Blog online. She spoke about the importance of STEM education, her history in teaching, and her dedication to inspiring young adults to explore careers in engineering. Roberts cites an interesting study by the Intel Corporation which reports that 63% of teens have never considered a career in engineering, but 44% would if they knew more about it!

Click HERE for the full article, or begin reading below.


Creating, Tinkering, Inventing and Imagining Our Way to the Top

By: Dori Roberts

If you were to peek through the door of most preschool classrooms or observe young children playing at home, you would likely find kids creating, tinkering, inventing and imagining. Their hands would be busy and their minds would be racing a hundred miles a minute with all different types of creative possibilities: A rollercoaster using foam pipe insulation! A rocket from a plastic water bottle! A bridge from paper and tape! These kids are engineers. Most just don't know it. Yet.
I began my career as a high school technology and engineering teacher. During that time, I witnessed amazing ideas high school students developed and implemented around engineering-related challenges. I saw firsthand how students could begin to address real-world problems with their innovation. My own son, who was 6 at the time, became very interested in the students' projects. Upon searching for an after-school STEM program for him, I realized such a thing did not exist. So, I began to dream of a program that would introduce STEM concepts to young children. In 2009, I founded Engineering for Kids, which brings science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to kids ages 4 through 14 in a fun and challenging way.