
2016 Women Empowerment Conference
Priya, Kavya and Maanasa presented a workshop "Row, Row, Row your Bot: Making Space for Women in STEM" at the 2016 Wecon Conference. Participants programmed NXT Lego Mindstorm robots to go through an obstacle course. The course included obstacles which represented the different types of barriers that women face in higher education and the work force such as bullying based on gender, job stereotypes, unequal pay, and maternity leave. First participants learned the basic method