Our mission is to empower women and girls and to eliminate racism. Girls also will visit NASA researchers in their laboratories and participate in the NASA Ames Aerospace Encounter. Ms. Holmberg Brooks is the founder and executive director of GirlSite, a Los Angeles-based organization that encourages girls to explore technology on line. Wendy Holforty, a pilot with Civil Air Patrol, will deliver the keynote address.
Women continue to be underrepresented in the field of technology.
This year's event will take place at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffet Field beginning at 9 a.m. The day's activities are sponsored in part by TRW Systems and Information Technology Group, Warner Lambert Co., GTE and Best Buy Children's Foundation. The YWCA of the U.S.A., the nation's oldest and largest women's membership movement, unites 1.8 million women and girls in 4,000 communities throughout the United States. Its mission, to empower women and girls and to eliminate racism, is the guiding principle to all YWCA child care, shelter, physical fitness, health awareness and social justice programs.