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2014 NCWIT Summit – Special Announcement, DevelopHER Toy Challenge

RUTHE FARMER: Carrie Van Heyst and Andrea Guendelman. [audience applauding] ANDREA GUENDELMAN: I don’t see very much, but… Welcome to a kick off event for ...

2014 NCWIT Summit – Special Guest Maria Bello, Actress and Activist

[applause] [upbeat music] MARIA BELLO: Thank you so much, Carrie. Thank you Andrea. Thank you Lucy. What an incredible, incredible event. I’m not really the ...

2014 NCWIT Summit – Community Awards

[upbeat music] [upbeat music] [upbeat music] [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] BOBBY SCHNABEL: Good morning! [indistinct chatter] And welcome back to the third day of the ...

2014 NCWIT Summit - Plenary III, Why Diversity Matters by Donna Brazile

Conversations for Change: NCWIT Summit: Why Diversity Matters by Donna Brazile

[audience applauds] [upbeat music] DONNA BRAZILE: Thank you, thank you. I have to tell you, Bobby, that was a very kind and gracious introduction, and ...

2014 NCWIT Summit – Special Guest Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation

LUCY SANDERS: I am extremely excited to introduce our special guest, Chelsea Clinton. She’s the vice-chair of the Clinton Foundation, and in that role she’s ...

2015 NCWIT Pioneer Award Scrapbook – Katherine Johnson

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Results of a Large-Scale, Multi-Institutional Study of Undergraduate Retention in Computing

The recent upsurge in enrollments in computing means that student attrition has a substantial opportunity cost. Admitting a student who leaves both reduces graduation yield and prevents another ...

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Regional Celebrations-in-a-Box: Connecting Communities of Technical Women

Regional Celebrations-in-a-Box contains resources for organizing small conferences designed to increase the participation, retention, and advancement of technical women. This program-in-a-box is a compilation of ...

Top 10 Ways to Hire the Best for Your Computing Start-up

This Top 10 resource offers recommendations for attracting and hiring highly qualified diverse technical employees into start-up companies. The recommendations include attention to casting a ...

Top 10 Ways to Increase Girls’ Participation in Computing Competitions

Are you interested in getting more girls involved in your computing competition? This Top 10 resource offers simple suggestions to make your competition appeal to ...

NCWIT Checklist for Reducing Unconscious Bias in Job Descriptions/Advertisements

This Job Description Checklist helps you analyze ads for subtle biases in language, in criteria, and in how you describe your workplace. Related Resources: View NCWIT ...

NCWIT Tips for Startup Members

NCWIT Tips for Startup Members is a series of action items to help you implement or improve recruitment and retention practices, avoid unconscious bias, manage ...