Tag: 10×10

• So What Does Girls’ Education Have to Do with Musical Pumpkins? Yesterday was not your normal day at the office.  I learned how to make a musical instrument out of a pumpkin. To kick off Intel’s celebrations of the UN’s  International Day of the Girl, we hosted a great group of middle school girls from the YMCA’s TechGYRLS program at our headquarters in Santa Clara. The girls spent the day working...
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• “Behind the Scenes” with CNN, Take 17… “Intel Renee, San Francisco. Take 17.” Yes, it took 17 ‘takes’ to shoot a 20 second clip of me for Intel ‘s latest commercial on CNN (which is part of the buildup to the CNN Broadcast of Girl Rising on June 16th and June 22 in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Japan, and China). The film crew asked me a...
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• Why Community Involvement Really Matters Now   As a former New Yorker and current Arizona resident with most of my family and friends spread along the east coast, I’ve spent much of the last two weeks watching the terrible devastation from Sandy, and the subsequent snowstorm, following my friend’s Facebook posts and tweets about the status of their power, tree limbs, wet basements and impossible commutes....
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• 10,000 Followers – Thank you!! Yesterday we reached ten thousand followers on our @Intelinvolved Twitter handle – a big milestone since I started tweeting for the account back in June of last year. THANK YOU! To celebrate, we’re highlighting ten of our friends on Twitter – though undoubtedly we have many more (9,990 friends, in fact). If you’re not following these folks already, you should be!...
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• Lessons from Hematite This blog was posted on behalf of Minea Moore, a Strategic Sourcing Manager in Intel’s Corporate Strategic Procurement. Follow her on Twitter @mmooreaz.  You have heard the statistics. Women earn 72 cents for every dollar earned by men. Only 18 Fortune 500 companies are led by women. Only 10 Fortune 500 companies have women in board positions. But many companies—including Intel—are...
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• Intel Employees Code and Do Good 24 hours. That’s how long it took one of the Intel Code for Good hackathon teams to develop a functioning mobile app for World Pulse, a nonprofit dedicated to helping girls and women have a greater voice in more than 185 countries.  At the end of March in Hillsboro Oregon, fifty Intel employees participated in our first ever Code for Good...
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• Educate Girls — Change the World; Intel makes commitment with 10×10 at CGI Did you know that one additional year of primary education for girls can result in a 10-20% increase in women's wages later in life? An increase in female education leads to lower infant and maternal mortality rates, protection against HIV/AIDS, and increased schooling for her children. An investment in a girl's education is an investment in economic development and health...
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