Courant Institute Hosts High School Girls for Computer Science, Engineering Workshops

NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Princeton University teamed up for a day-long event designed to attract high school girls to the engineering and computer science fields. The early May session, which drew more than 100 New York City high school students, included interactive workshops, programming challenges, and speakers, such as Courant Director Leslie Greengard and doctoral candidate Raia Hadsell, right, who delivered a lecture on robotics.

Pictured above is one of the day’s activities—a tower design competition, in which participants teamed up to build structurally sound towers using only spaghetti sticks and gumdrops. The event, held at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life, was co-sponsored by Courant’s Women in Computing initiative, Princeton’s Graduate Women in Science and Engineering, and Google.