If your company is short on qualified employees, you may just want to look to Africa. Andela connects the best of the best of African developers to major companies. A Capital Campus contributor and Andela fellow writes about the process of becoming part of Andela, which accepts less than 1% of applicants, and how Andela can help female developers earn a shot at a rewarding career, even though they're thousands of miles away from the companies that are hiring. CNN reported that both Google and Mark Zuckerberg have invested in the elite program, which "has a company-wide goal that 35% of its software developers are women, according to Christina Sass, one of Andela's four cofounders." (See WiCipedia: How to Make Companies Work for Women.)

Looking to bring a bit of tech know-how into the kitchen? Check out Rosanna Pansino's Nerdy Nummies Cookbook for inspiration. Pansino's website describes the cookbook as a mixture of "geek culture and baking," and says, "Her fondness for video games, science fiction, math, comics, and lots of other things considered 'nerdy' have inspired every recipe in this book." Recipes range from the "Periodic Table of Cupcakes" to the "Motherboard Cake," shown below in an instructional video. This may just be the secret to getting kids interested in STEM after all! (See Why Diversity of Geeks in Tech Matters.)