‘Nerd Girls’ out to prove that beauties can be brainy

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Group seeks to shatter stereotypes and attract girls to technology careers

They’re hot. They’re sexy. They solve quadratic equations. They’re the Nerd Girls, and they’re out to explode the myth that a woman can’t be both smart and drop-dead gorgeous.

“There’s a stereotype out there,” Danielle Vardaro, an engineer for Boeing, told TODAY’s Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb Friday.

And it’s not a pretty one. Women are still rarely thought of as engineers, said Karen Panetta, a belly-dancing professor of engineering at Tufts University and the founder of Nerd Girls.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25736678

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1. This thread is worthless without pics...

and all that fun stuff. :D

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3. I got your back, man

:P

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2. Man, anyone who thinks that never met my o-chem teacher

Whip smart, and a total knockout. She's the only teacher I've ever had who didn't say "um," like, EVER.

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4. Danica McKellar....

Also

http://www.mathdoesntsuck.com/

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5. "a belly-dancing professor of engineering"

sort of leapt out at me.