Extension Services Consultants Meeting
A full-day training for NCWIT Extension Services Consultants. Extension Services (ES) provides customized consultation services to members of the NCWIT Academic Alliance (AA) for implementing systemic change in their undergraduate programs (UP) in ways that increase enrollment, retention, and graduation of women.
By invitation only.
ESC /Pacesetter Lunch
An informal opportunity for Extension Services Consultants and Pacesetters to check-in with each other.
By invitation only.
Registration Table Open
Located in the lobby of the Hotel Monaco. Pick up your nametag and program here!
Academic Alliance Meeting
The Academic Alliance meetings will take place in two parts during the NCWIT Practices Summit. This opportunity to meet only comes once a year! The AA will celebrate its sixth year in developing a community of over 90 dedicated universities and colleges. It will be introducing new ways to move from community-building to becoming organizations that promote and support positive change initiatives.
By invitation only.
K-12 Alliance Meeting
The K-12 Alliance meetings will take place in two parts during the NCWIT Practices Summit. This opportunity to meet only comes once a year! The K-12 Alliance will be introducing new members, examining resources, discussing CS education policy and making key decisions that put its strategic plan into action. The K-12 membership represents 27 leading organizations and the Alliance becomes more diverse and has a greater reach with each new member. Its focus is on driving change to increase girls' and women's meaningful participation in computing.
By invitation only.
Workforce Alliance Meeting
The Workforce Alliance meetings will take place in two parts during the NCWIT Practices Summit. This opportunity to meet only comes once a year! The WA will be debuting new resources and conducting a training session on the new Supervisory box. Members will have a chance to participate in working sessions on WA projects and interact with new people. WA membership is now at 75 individuals representing 28 leading organizations. More senior executives are engaged in the WA than ever before.
By invitation only.
Welcome Reception
Gather with NCWIT members and guests for a drink and some informal networking.
Salon Dinner
Join us for dinner and an enlightening talk, followed by Q&A. Joyce Roché, President and CEO of Girls Inc., will be our guest speaker for "Inspired
for Life: Supporting Girls in Developing Expectations for Success." Inspiration is the transformational
experience that allows us to dedicate ourselves fully to a vision of the
future. It is a critical ingredient of success. Joyce Roche will share her perspective on the role
of inspiration in the educational approaches required to ignite girls’ and
young women’s excitement about IT and to equip them with the skills necessary
to overcome the gender barriers to success in the field. She will draw on
her personal experience as a trailblazer in corporate America and on the highly
successful programming of Girls Inc., the oldest girl-focused organization in
the United States, whose mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart,
and bold.
Breakfast Buffet
Served in the Hotel Monaco.
Travel to Intel
Shuttle buses depart from the Hotel Monaco.
Welcome & Introductions; The State of NCWIT
A welcome from Intel VP and CTO Justin Rattner, and an update on NCWIT from CEO Lucy Sanders.
Talk: "Turning good policies into good practice: The need for culture change"
Guest Speaker: Wendy Faulkner
The proportion of women in specialist ICT roles, and in engineering more generally, remains remarkably low in many countries. There is now a well-established consensus about the main factors behind the poor recruitment, retention and progression of women in these professions, and what kind of policies should help redress these. Indeed, increasing numbers of large engineering employers ‘tick all the boxes' at corporate level. Yet time and again ones finds that having a set of good policies does not in itself guarantee that good practice is happening on the ground. The aim of this talk is to consider why, and how we might overcome this.
1. CS Unplugged: Computer Science without computers
Presenter: Tim Bell
Computer Science Unplugged is a project that introduces principles of computer science in a fun way, without using computers. It can be used in conjunction with computer courses, in classrooms, and in situations where access to computers is limited. This talk will look at the issues surrounding Computer Science education from an international perspective, and introduce the CS Unplugged approach as one way to get students' interest and enhance routine computing courses.
2. Women and Open Source: Pathways and Perspectives
Panelists: Kirrily Robert, Denise Paolucci, Angela Bryon
In this session, three high-profile women in the open source community present the unique opportunities the open source movement presents for inspiring and educating women in technology. Using their history and experiences, they'll discuss how to reach women and get them more involved, how women can get the most out of their participation in an open source project, and specific tactics and tips they've picked up along the way.
3. Advancing Faculty Diversity in the STEM Disciplines at the University of Michigan
Presenter: Wayne Jones
This presentation will describe the work of the University of Michigan's ADVANCE Program, from its creation as a five-year NSF-funded program in 2001 to its institutionalization as a UM-funded program in 2006, to its present role in university-wide efforts to increase faculty diversity. In particular, the role senior faculty can play in educating their colleagues about the negative consequences of evaluation bias, even non-conscious bias, especially as it relates to recruitment and retention of women and underrepresented minorities will be discussed. Finally, best recruiting practices, gleaned from the efforts at the University of Michigan and other institutions, which increase the effectiveness of recruiting for diversity will be presented.
4. The role of implicit bias in perpetuating the gender gap in science and engineering
Presenter: Brian Nosek
Conscious experience provides an immediate, compelling, and incomplete account of mental life. Much of perception, thinking, and action is shaped by mental activity that occurs outside of conscious awareness or conscious control. Because of that, judgment and action can be unintentionally influenced by factors that we do not recognize, and may not value. These implicit processes may influence judgments of self and others, and play a role in participation and performance in science and engineering-related training and careers.
5. CompuGirls: Increasing Girls' Participation in Computer Science through Culturally Relevant Education and Social
Change Efforts
Presenter: Kimberly Scott
Find out more about CompuGirls, a unique
program that aims to increase the participation of underrepresented girls in
computing. The Phoenix-based program
enrolls a particularly high number of African-American and Native American
girls, ages 13-18, and uses culturally relevant curriculum to help the girls
create technologies for social change in their local communities. Dr. Scott will present an overview of the
program and will summarize outcomes, successes, and challenges.
Travel back to Hotel
NCWIT Community Reception
Ecotrust National Capital Center
The Ecotrust Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center has been acclaimed as a unique blend of environmental innovation and historic restoration and has been awarded gold-level LEED certification. With Patagonia as the retail anchor, the building also houses a mix of non-profit and business tenants gathered around the themes of sustainable forestry and fisheries, green building, and financial investment. The Center includes outdoor seating, a public atrium, a resource center, and an outdoor terrace with fireplace. All floors incorporate display areas for exhibits and shared information.
Musical Guest: Second Wind Jazz Ensemble, featuring Intel Workforce Alliance member Steve Tolopka
Honoring the Portland-area winners of the 2010 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing!
Breakfast Buffet
Served at the Hotel Monaco.
Computing Update from Washington, D.C.
Interviewer: Ed Lazowska
Interviewees: Karen Cator, Bryan Sivak, Lucy Sanders, Cameron Wilson
This panel discussion will address recent developments on Capitol Hill and elsewhere in Washington, D.C., that influence diversity in computing education and the IT workforce. Ed Lazowska and panelists will introduce topics such as computing education reform, the digital divide, support for building an IT talent pipeline, and policies that influence technical innovation.
1. CS Unplugged: Computer Science without computers
Presenter: Tim Bell
(repeated from prior day)
2. Women and Open Source: Pathways and Perspectives
Panelists: Kirrily Robert, Denise Paolucci, Angela Bryon
(repeated from prior day)
3. Advancing Faculty Diversity in the STEM Disciplines at the University of Michigan
Presenter: Wayne Jones
(repeated from prior day)
4. Social Tech ID: How Social Media Convinces Us We Are Crossing Boundaries
Presenter: Shireen Mitchell
Girls, women of color and other demographics that seemed to be challenging at best to reach in the past has become simpler with the new social tech tools like Facebook, Twitter and others. Are access, education and income still barriers today? Have social networks resolved this problem? Added to it? Or presented new challenges to face? This session will discuss a diverse perspective on new media technologies and changing the lives of girls, women, and teens of color. Your input is expected.
NCWIT Cross-Alliance Action Planning Sessions
1. Evaluating What We Do: Challenges and Solutions
Implementing new programs or practices takes a lot of effort. How do you know if it's paying off? Come hear three NCWIT members (Assessing Women and Men in Engineering Project, Sun/Oracle, and UC Irvine) talk about the challenges of evaluation and the solutions they have devised. The NCWIT internal evaluator will share her experiences and insights too, as time permits.
Moderator: Wendy DuBow
Panelists: Tricia Berry, Consultant, Assessing Women and Men in Engineering Project and Director of the Women in Engineering program at UT Austin and the Texas Girls Collaborative Project; Katy Dickinson, Director, Business Process Architecture, Chief Technologist's Office & Sun Labs, Sun Microsystems; Debra Richardson, Professor of Informatics and Dean of the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science
2. Program Sustainability: Strategies for Fundraising
Sustaining programs focused on girls/women and computing is a challenge many of us face. This panel will focus on the essential steps organizations might consider in funding their work. Panelists - representatives from academia, funding foundations, non-profits and consulting services, will exchange ideas on fundraising strategies.
Co-Moderators: Lucy Sanders, Telle Whitney
Panelists: Jody Mahoney, Bobby Schnabel, Eileen Sweeney
3. Planning CS ED Week 2010
Speaker: John White
In 2010 ACM led a coalition of organizations, including NCWIT, in the formation of CS Education Week. With little planning time, press releases were issued, a web site was created, and resources recommended - see http://www.csedweek.org/. We would like this to be an annual event with broad national coverage - come offer your ideas about what CS Education Week can become, and learn how your organization can be involved.
4. Recognition Works! The NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing Affiliate Program
Interested in connecting with aspiring female technologists in your community? Host a local NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing Affiliate! NCWIT is scaling up the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing through local and regional award programs around the country. Hear from NCWIT members who piloted the program in Texas, Illinois and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn what it takes to implement the Affiliate Award, host an event and the rewards for doing so.
Panelists: Ruthe Farmer, Allison Clark, Charlie McDowell, Sonya Harris, Steve Roach, Tiffany Grady
NCWIT Symons Innovator Award Celebration
2010 Award Winner: Kim Polese
Co-hosted by the Software Association of Oregon
Oregon Health & Science University Center for Health & Healing, South Waterfront District
The NCWIT Symons Innovator Award honors an outstanding
woman who has successfully built and funded an IT business. By
recognizing women IT entrepreneurs, the NCWIT Symons Innovator Award
hopes to inspire others to pursue IT entrepreneurship, and increase
awareness about the importance of women’s participation in IT
innovation and business. The award is named for Jeanette Symons, founder of Industrious Kid, Zhone Technologies, and Ascend Communications, and an NCWIT Entrepreneurial Hero.
