Ada Lovelace Day Celebrates Women In Tech And Science

March 24, Ada Lovelace Day, Celebrates Women's Tech And Science Achievements

Finding Ada is calling on people to participate in the second annual Ada Lovelace Day.

March 24 was dubbed 'Ada Lovelace Day' in honor of this 'tech heroine.' It was celebrated as an 'international day of blogging' that honored not only Lovelace's achievements, but the achievements of all women in technology and science.

According to Finding Ada, the day was quite successful:

It attracted nearly 2000 signatories to the pledge and 2000 more people who signed up on Facebook. Over 1200 people added their post URL to the Ada Lovelace Day 2009 mash-up. The day itself was covered by BBC News Channel, BBC.co.uk, Radio 5 Live, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Metro, Computer Weekly, and VNUnet, as well as hundreds of blogs worldwide.

This year, Finding Ada is again recruiting signatures from people to pledge a blog post on March 24 about admirable women in technology or science. Their goal is to get 3,072 signatures and to raise awareness about women's scientific contributions.

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