Virtual Take Our Daughters to Work Day

Thursday, April 22, 1999

The fourth anuual Virtual Take Our Daughters to Work Day, sponsored by the Women of NASA project, features select female leaders from a broad spectrum of professions within NASA who will meet online with hundreds of students, parents, and schools worldwide to discuss and celebrate opportunities, as well as gain insight into the professional and personal aspects of their lives. We invite boys and girls to join us and learn more about these exceptional women. The day is devoted to giving young people anywhere in the world who have Internet access the opportunity to share the Take Our Daughters to Work Day experience and gain insight into their own future choices. This day of online conversations coincides with the national initiative, Take Our Daughters to Work Day sponsored by the Ms. Foundation.

Participants may engage in conversations with the women by either a live QuestChat or QuestForum. The live Questchats will feature one select women each hour on the hour from 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. PDT / Noon - 5:00 p.m. EST and require preregistration. The QuestForum is open throughout the day from 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. PDT / 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. EST and will feature a panel of eight women. Registration is not necessary for the Forum and you may join in when it is most convenient. An observation room is also available for both the QuestChat and QuestForum. All dialogue will be archived and available as a link from the featured women's profile. Visit the archives from our previous years: (1997),(1998)

The Virtual Take Our Daughters to Work Day is comprised of four interrelated components:

• Research
  Profiles and biographies of the featured women are available for research prior to the event, and can be found by linking from the featured woman's name on the schedule or on the profiles page. You are strongly encouraged to research the featured women prior to the chats in order to form appropriate questions that cannot be answered by another source. Archives of additional interactive events are also included in their profiles.
• Preregistration
  Preregistration for the QuestChats are essential. Although an unlimited number of participants can take part in the chats as observers, the number of students able to submit questions live during the chat is limited. Therefore, once you have researched the featured women and have decided which chat(s) you wish to participate in, you must preregister from the schedule page. The registration is done by filling out a web based form and takes approximately 5 minutes. There are specific chat directions that you should become familiar with prior to the chats.
• Interacting
  To chat, enter the URL, user name and password you were given when you preregistered for the chat at the specified time. To observe, link to the observe room from the schedule page at any time. To participate in the Forum,link to the Forum room from the schedule page at any point throughout the day to post or read answers.
• Follow-up
  All contents and information from these pages and this event will be archived and available as a link from the Women of NASA page. The archived chats and profiles are a rich source of information when studying careers, gender equity, women's issues, and information specific to each woman's profession. Teaching tips on how you may use this event and the Women of NASA project are available on our teaching tips page.

Visit the archives from our previous years (1997),(1998)