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[audience applauding] LISA CHANG: Thank you Lucy, good afternoon everyone. It’s a pleasure to be here. This is Turner’s first active year in participation of NCWIT, and we’re delighted to

DR. AARON KAY: I’m gonna talk to you about some recent research that I was invited to discuss, that I think you’ll find relevant to the kinds of issues that

JEFFREY FORBES: So finally, let’s welcome Dr. David Notkin, who’s the Bradley Chair in Computer Science at University of Washington, with a talk on increasing flexibility. DR. DAVID NOTKIN: So

Ed Lazowska: Great, thank you for joining us this morning. I’m Ed Lazowska, I’m from the University of Washington, and I have to say it’s a real honor and pleasure

BRENDA ALLEN: Good afternoon. AUDIENCE: Good afternoon. BENDA ALLEN: Oh good, you all knew it wasn’t rhetorical. [laughing] So take a look. Is that what a nerd or geek looks

NORA NEWCOMBE: Okay, well thank you very much. It’s really a pleasure to be here. I remember well that panel where I met Lucy. And, actually, there’s a picture of

NCWIT held its first-ever Innovation and Diversity Town Hall, co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), at the National Academy of Sciences on May 17, 2006. Participants and speakers ranged

LUCY SANDERS: Hello, everyone. My name is Lucy Sanders and I’m the CEO of NCWIT. And, before I came to NCWIT, which is housed at the University of Colorado, I

[upbeat music] JEFF FORBES: We’re here at NCWIT. We couldn’t do anything without highlighting one of our illustrious national aspirations winners. So next up we have Emily Peed-Brown who’s going

[upbeat music] JEFFREY FORBES: Next we’re going to hear from some of our younger speakers Courtney Besaw and Daysha Edgerton are going to speak about COMPUGIRLS. [audience clapping] So, they’re

Jeffrey Forbes:  We’re very lucky to have Avis Yates Rivers, who’s the founder of Technology Concepts Incorporated, as well as being an NCWIT board member. She’s going to tell us

JEFFREY FORBES: So next, we have my colleague, Dr. Jan Cuny. So Jan’s a Program Officer at NSF and she’ll be giving a talk that in my admittedly biased opinion

[upbeat music] JANE MARGOLIS: David Neal is a social and behavioral psychologist specializing in behavior change. His academic research focuses on understanding basic mechanisms of habitual control in daily life

[upbeat music] VALERIE TAYLOR: So now I’ll take the opportunity to introduce Ben Eater. Ben is the Lead Exercise Developer at Khan Academy, which is a non-profit education platform dedicated

[upbeat introduction music] RUTHE FARMER: Good evening and welcome to the Arizona Award for Aspirations and Computing. We are very excited to recognize this amazing group of young women this

[bright music] JEFFREY FORBES: Our last speaker is Herb Morreale who is the CEO of 6kites, an Entrepreneurial Alliant member company. Give him a round of applause for that, [applause]

[upbeat music] JEFFREY FORBES: So, we’re going to go through each of the speakers. As I invite each of our speakers up to the stage, please hold your applause until

[audience chatting] BOBBY SCHNABEL: Let’s see, good morning. Good morning so we’re going to get started. I’m Bobby Schnabel. I’m one of the three cofounders of NCWIT along with Lucy

JEFFREY FORBES: Thank you. So I’m Jeff Forbes. I’m going to be the emcee for the Flash Talks. I’m from the National Science Foundation. And NCWIT is really excited to

JEFFREY FORBES: Next up is Sylvia Martinez the president of Generation YES who will be speaking about the needle in the haystack. SYLVIA MARTINEZ: Well thank you. My name is

JEFFREY FORBES: Next let’s welcome Dr. W. Brett McKenzie. So Dr. McKenzie is a professor of computer information systems at Roger Williams University. And he’ll be giving us a talk

JEFFREY FORBES: I’m going to ask our first speaker to come up on the stage. So, Jinisha Patel is a winner of the NCWIT award for aspirations in computing and

JEFFREY FORBES: Our next speaker is Dr. Sarah Kuhn. A member of NCWIT’s Social Science Advisory Board, a professor in the University of Massachusetts Lowell Department of Psychology, and a

JEFFREY FORBES: So up next we have Doctor Carol Frieze. Doctor Frieze is director of the Women at SCS program for the school of computer science at Carnegie Mellon university.