Tag: GHC 16
Three Takeaways from Microsoft Designers
#GHC16 Daily Download: Thursday, October 20
Step 72.3: Help Non-CS Students Start Technical Careers
One of the most promising sessions – which I found myself, but also which several students caught and recommended I attend, is titled Pursuing a Technical Career without a Computer Science Degree. Clearly it was relevant for Occidental College, where students can’t get a CS degree even if they wanted to! Victoria Wobber (People Analyst […]
Friday Livestream Keynote
Retaining High Tech Women Once They’re in the Door
Karen Holtzblatt began the lecture by gathering some biodata on the attendees: how many students are in the room how many folks with 1 or 2 years of work experience how many managers (the majority of hands went up. “We … Continue reading →
Grace Hopper 2016: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Responsible Information Sharing Talk: Takeaway
Step 72.2: Blur the Mentor/Mentee Line
The first session I attended at GHC is Shattering the Old Boys’ Club: Rediefining Mentorship for Women in Tech, which was a panel discussion and a short presentation by Nisha Dua (founder of Built by Girls), Stasia Efremkina (student at UPenn), Natasha Shah (software engineer at Verizon), and Susan Kelly (Director of Software Development at […]
Grace Hopper 2016: Learn to Sell Your Big Idea through Storytelling
GHC 2016 poster session – amazing work!
Single word to describe the Poster session is Enthusiasm. Students and Professionals from various backgrounds and varied subjects presented their work with passion. Tirelessly and patiently they presented their posters with a smile. The posters were grouped by topics like Robotics, Bioinformatics, Data science and so on. In between presentations they were bonding with each other, which was added…
