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Building a Brighter Tech Future: BPC with CSforALL + NCWIT

Originally published by CSforALL on Medium. Unlocking Innovation by Empowering Diverse K-12 and Higher Education Pathways A diverse and inclusive tech workforce is the key to unlocking the full potential […]

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2023 Pioneer in Tech Award Recipient Dr. Erna Schneider Hoover

NCWIT is excited to announce Dr. Erna Schneider Hoover as the 2023 Pioneer Award recipient for her role in revolutionizing the modern telephone system. Dr. Hoover was born in Irvington, New

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2022 Pioneer in Tech Award Recipient Frances “Poppy” Northcutt

Frances “Poppy” Northcutt’s career includes groundbreaking achievements as an engineer, as a women’s rights advocate, and as an attorney. Born in Many, Louisiana, and raised in Luling and Dayton, Texas,

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20 Members Honored for Technological Accomplishments and Change-leading Efforts for Increasing Diversity in Computing | Press Release

NCWIT awards celebrate outstanding contributions and encourage persistence. The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) is virtually celebrating individuals whose technological innovations have made an impact or whose

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Now on Zoom: 2020 NCWIT Conversations for Change | Press Release

This first-ever, online thought leadership series of events focused on creating inclusion and diversity in computing is free and open to the public. Zoom registrations for each event are available

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2020 Pioneer in Tech Award Recipient Ruzena Bajcsy

Ruzena Bajcsy has spent much of her career at the intersection of human and machine ways of interpreting the world, with research interests that include Artificial Intelligence; Biosystems and Computational

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Nearly 40 Members Honored for Technological Accomplishments and Change-leading Efforts for Women in Computing

NCWIT Awards celebrate outstanding contributions and encourage persistence. The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) is holding its annual “NCWIT Summit on Women and IT: Where Conversations Lead

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2019 Pioneer in Tech Award Recipient Lynn Conway

Lynn Conway began her computing career at IBM research after completing her graduate studies at Columbia, joining the IBM Advanced Computing Systems project just as it was forming in 1965.

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Now Streaming: 2018 NCWIT Summit on Women and IT

“Our community of change leaders is fueled by their adoption of effective, research-based strategies that facilitate reform in computing classes and technical organizations,” said NCWIT CEO and Co-founder Lucy Sanders.

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2018 Pioneer in Tech Award Recipients Lorinda Cherry and Evi Nemeth

After her graduation in 1969, Lorinda Cherry worked for a few years as a Fortran programmer, but she found it “very boring” to constantly write programs based on someone else’s

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44 Members Honored for Technological Accomplishments and Change-leading Efforts for Women in Computing

“NCWIT Awards are designed to encourage excellence in change leadership,” said NCWIT CEO and Co-founder Lucy Sanders. “The NCWIT Summit is a fitting stage to amplify the outstanding work of

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More than 25 Members Honored for Technological Accomplishments and Change-leading Efforts for Women in Computing

NCWIT Awards challenge stereotypes, encourage persistence, and celebrate contributions. NCWIT Summit award celebrations are available to watch on the livestream: ncwit.org/livestream. The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT)

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Now Streaming: 2017 NCWIT Summit on Women and IT

The NCWIT Summit is the world’s largest annual convening of change leaders in key positions for reversing women’s underrepresentation in computing. Main events are available to watch at ncwit.org/livestream. The NCWIT

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2016 Pioneer in Tech Award Recipient Cynthia Solomon

Cynthia Solomon’s focus has been on creating fun-filled, thoughtful, personally expressive, and aesthetically pleasing learning environments for children. Her work has spanned several important collaborations, including her four-decade-long collaboration on

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2015 Pioneer in Tech Award Recipients Katherine Johnson and Dr. Christine Darden

As a NASA mathematician, Katherine Johnson’s calculations include the trajectory for the space flight of Alan Shepard, the first American in space; John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth;

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LAUSD Foshay Robotics Team 597 Earns Highest Honor at International Competition

LAUSD Foshay Robotics Team 597 includes Ana Hernandez, 2015 National Aspirations in Computing Award Winner, and Carolina Menjivar, 2015 Aspirations in Computing Award Runner-up. Click the link above to read

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2014 Pioneer in Tech Award Recipient Eleanor Kolchin

Eleanor Kolchin graduated from Brooklyn College in 1947 with a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. She was treasurer of Pi Mu Epsilon, the national honorary mathematics society. After a short period

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NCWIT 2012 Summit – Workshop Slides, Implicit Stereotypes and impact on minority self-conceptions

“Female Experts and Peers Are ‘Social Vaccines’ That Strengthen Women’s Decisions to Pursue STEM” Dr. Nilanjana Dasgupta discusses research identifying protective factors in learning environments that increase girls and women’s

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