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Take Your Kids to Work The Carnival Day

Published July 10, 2012

Last Friday was Take Your Kids to Work Day, formerly Take Your Daughters to Work Day. I participated as a mentor, talking to kids and answering questions about how to combine art and technology in jobs at places like Microsoft. Now, it’s no secret that I’m pretty passionate about this kind of work, seeing as I’ve spent multiple years on the Board of IGNITE (Inspiring Girls Now In Technology Evolution). It’s important to give kids enough information about what’s out there for them, in the hopes of empowering them to get passionate and make the right choices. But at the…

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Demystifying Job Shadows

Published April 15, 2011

They’re a rather mysterious concept out of context – after all, I never did a job shadow when I was growing up or even when I was in college. The closest I ever got was visiting my dad’s engineering firm, running around, playing on the computers and being AMAZED at all the choices of beverages he stocked. (How prophetic, since almost every place I’ve ever worked is a member of the free-soda-and-assorted-beverages club.) And I think that’s part of what can make it difficult to find volunteers for job shadows – the uncertainty of “What on earth would I do with…

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Cheryl Platz is a Principal UX Designer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. An internationally recognized expert on natural user interfaces and design for AI, she was the original designer of the Echo Look and Alexa Notifications.

The founder and owner of design education company Ideaplatz, Cheryl travels the world sharing her talks and workshops on a variety of design topics.

As a professional stage and film actress, Cheryl can be seen on a variety of stages and video productions. In Seattle, she appears regularly with her home company Unexpected Productions (Seattle TheatreSports).