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Re: Barbie as a Computer Engineer

1+ Environmentalist.
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Re: Barbie as a Computer Engineer

+2 here also.

Instead of Barbie Goes Shopping maybe young girls will be playing Barbie Goes to the NSA or Barbie Computes Orbital Insertion .... we can only hope!

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Re: Barbie as a Computer Engineer

One of our upper years brought this up at the University of Waterloo Engineering Society meeting tonight... so I would guess that means +50 CE...

PS: If you belong to a student engineering society, spread the word.
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Re: Barbie as a Computer Engineer

Here's a couple of thoughts as we continue to add our vote information -

A toy can provide an opportunity that helps a child learn and develop. If Barbie is a doll with cool clothes that the child plays with in a familiar environment such as a playroom, the child's imagination can be stimulated and encouraged to help the child think, true. If Barbie is taken out of the familiar environment and placed in an environment to help develop the imagination and thinking processes in areas such as the ones mentioned here in the thread, how much more fun for the child. There's always possibilities and opportunities for helping dreams become realities.
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Re: Barbie as a Computer Engineer

So yeah...uh...Pepto Bismol (sp?) pink in the morning...not a happy way to start the day...BUT got in a vote for CE Barbie...before now Barbie was only good for target practice when I was a kid but now she may actually grow a brain...what is this world coming to?
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Re: Barbie as a Computer Engineer

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Voted...but I liked environmentalist as well.
As an environmental engineer, the term "environmentalist" made my skin crawl. All i could picture was a tree-hugging...well I won't go farther than that.

If it had been environmental scientist, environmental engineer, environmental manager, or so on, it would have had my vote in a minute.

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Re: Barbie as a Computer Engineer

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I'll do it at home-I'm in the school library and it could get rather awkward...
Gotta love the library.

+1 CE

Highly random, but brilliant.

So does this mean that Barbie is finally breaking the blonde stereotype?
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Re: Barbie as a Computer Engineer

+5 to CE

I had to do it in secret and I don't think I'll tell the others because I can't really aford to lose any more man points. But great idea
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Re: Barbie as a Computer Engineer

Looks like Barbie is going to be a Computer Engineer and a News Anchor.

EDIT: Interesting to note the Girls' Vote and the Popular Vote. Also, interesting to note how each will be dressed and what that reflects/says about stereotypes, even though it seems that this opportunity is created to work towards making inroads in diversity in the work force and to help girls understand that they can achieve in any field they are interested in. We still have such a long long way to go. The computer engineer looks cool, though - I'm liking the glasses.
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Re: Barbie as a Computer Engineer

WHOOO! As a girl who was always geeky, and never liked Barbie, I am excited! This might actually get more women into engineering!!! (Though I must say, I wish they had not put PINK onto her outfit and computer...)
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interesting to note how each will be dressed and what that reflects/says about stereotypes, even though it seems that this opportunity is created to work towards making inroads in diversity in the work force and to help girls understand that they can achieve in any field they are interested in.
I agree completely (although I cringed at the glasses personally). The girls on my team work very hard to try and achieve the same respect as the guys. What's funny is that Championships lands the same weekend as our Jr/Sr prom and the girls are all saying, "I don't care about prom, if we make it to Championships I'll wear my prom dress to Atlanta!" and all the guys are saying, "My girlfriend is already mad at me just thinking about the possibility of us making it to Atlanta!"...what does that tell you?
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What's funny is that Championships lands the same weekend as our Jr/Sr prom and the girls are all saying, "I don't care about prom, if we make it to Championships I'll wear my prom dress to Atlanta!" and all the guys are saying, "My girlfriend is already mad at me just thinking about the possibility of us making it to Atlanta!"...what does that tell you?
There is a great photo somewhere in the files of 2 girls wearing their prom dresses, with signs saying something like "I'm missing my prom." Can someone please find it?
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There is a great photo somewhere in the files of 2 girls wearing their prom dresses, with signs saying something like "I'm missing my prom." Can someone please find it?
They were drivers, right?

And I love the pink. I had to start wearing glasses in high school and I got rose pink frames with rose-colored lens. I saw the world through my rose-colored glasses and I was a happy girl.
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