![]() Olivia recently reached out to let us know that she had accepted the position of a Support Equipment Software Engineer and would be moving to St Louis Missouri after graduation. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -, the global non-profit focused on intersectional gender and pay parity in technology, announced that its flagship Grace Hopper Celebration. ![]() Several of our students were able to make connections and interview for positions that sparked their interest.Ī senior in Computer Science, Olivia Emery, had an opportunity to set up an interview with Boeing while at the conference. Corporate sponsors such as Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, along with many others, were in attendance and interviewing attendees for positions within their companies. With panels and presentations all three days, there was plenty to do and our students had the opportunity to be inspired by thousands of women with careers in STEM. The conference - one of the initiatives of the Anita Borg Institute- is the largest technical conference for women in computing in the world and results in collaborative proposals, networking and mentoring for junior women and increased visibility for the. In September, the Computer Science and Statistics department sent 11 students to the Grace Hopper Celebration in Orlando, FL. ago I went to Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC18), and I can still feel the exuberant energy from the 22,000 women over the intensive 3 day conference. On October 3-6 2012, several thousand gathered in Baltimore, Maryland at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference. Its “programs empower women and under-tapped communities in technical fields, guide the organizations that employ them, and support the academic institutions training the next generation.” Founded in 1994, Anita Borg’s Grace Hopper Celebration is touted as the largest annual gathering of women in computing. ![]() This fall, Grace Hopper reopened its conference to in person attendees after two years of only offering a virtual option.
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