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Susan and I saw a presentation at NACADA that this story reminded me about.  GamerGate has been a huge issue in the tech community for the last week or two and centers on online harassment of women in the gaming community.  I don't have a pithy thought on it, but I think it's an important issue in preparing a diverse tech workforce.

The students in Kirsten Lunzer's fourth-grade class watch as Codey the Troll crosses their computer screen, guided by the program they wrote to leap obstacles and collect blue jelly beans. These programming-savvy students in Minnetonka are on the leading edge of a new high-tech era that has Minnesota schools scrambling to respond to student demand for computer science classes that teach them how to develop software, apps, games and websites.