348641 external_news 1416839321 1475893643 When Casey Fiesler and Miranda Parker (Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. Program) heard about the shockingly sexist Barbie book Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer, which actually teaches girls that they can't be real engineers, the two roommates took matters into their own hands. Both had particular reasons to despise the book's message: Parker is a computer education student specializing in broadening participation in STEM-related academic programs and careers, while Fiesler is a doctoral student in human-centered computing at Georgia Tech.

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