Agenda
Following is a high-level agenda of 2018 NCWIT Summit events.
Please note that badges are required at all Summit events.
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7:30AM - 6:00PM
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Registration ICheck in, pick up swag and resources, and join the conversation in more ways than one. |
Texas Ballroom Foyer | |
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8:00AM - 9:00AM
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Breakfast IBreakfast is available for attendees with meetings beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 15. |
Longhorn D |
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9:00AM - 2:45PM
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EngageIT Meeting(for EngageIT project team members only) Project Advisory Board members, Faculty Cohorts, and EngageIT staff will meet to discuss the project. EngageIT is an NSF IUSE community college professional development and research project. A group lunch for Pacesetters, EngageIT, and Extension Services participants will be provided from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
Grapevine 5 |
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9:00AM - 2:30PM
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Pacesetters Cohort MeetingJoin this exploratory meeting to learn about the program expectations, hear about new toolsets, and meet your 2018-2020 cohort peers. A group lunch for Pacesetters, EngageIT, and Extension Services participants will be provided from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Then, you will also participate in the Pacesetters Community Meeting from 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. for a networking hour with Pacesetters from the 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2018 cohorts. |
Grapevine 3+4 |
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9:00AM - 10:15AM
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Extension Services (ES) Consultants Meeting(for ES staff and consultants only) This meeting will be followed by a 15-minute break before the Extension Services (ES) Clients, Guides, Consultants, and Staff Meeting commences. A group lunch for Pacesetters, EngageIT, and Extension Services participants will be provided from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
Grapevine 1+2 |
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9:30AM - 1:30PM
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Board of Directors (BOD) Meeting(for BOD members only) Members meet to provide corporate governance, strategic advice, and development assistance. |
Dallas 2 |
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10:30AM - 2:30PM
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Extension Services (ES) Clients, Guides, Consultants, and Staff Meeting(for ES clients currently working with an ES consultant only) Participants will engage in dialogues regarding the ES philosophy, effective recruitment and retention strategies, and how to track and utilize institutional and departmental data. Clients, consultants, and guides will have the opportunity for small group conversations. A group lunch for Pacesetters, EngageIT, and Extension Services participants will be provided from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
Grapevine 1+2 |
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1:30PM - 2:30PM
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Pacesetters Community MeetingPacesetters from all cohorts, past and present, make up a critical community of practice with 70 academic and corporate organizations. Join this informal networking hour to greet and reconnect with your peers in the program as we launch a new national Pacesetters Community. |
Grapevine 3+4 |
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2:00PM - 3:00PM
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AiC Collegiate Award Recipient Orientation(for students who are Collegiate Award recipients only) Students will gather for a Summit overview and orientation. They will discuss their personal, academic, and professional expectations, as well as goals for the Summit. |
Grapevine 6 |
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3:00PM - 4:00PM
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Change Leader Scholar Orientation(for students who are Change Leader Scholars) Students will gather for a Summit overview and orientation. They will discuss their personal, academic, and professional expectations, as well as goals for the Summit. |
Grapevine 6 |
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3:00PM - 4:00PM
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K-12 Alliance Meeting(for K-12 Alliance member representatives and invited guests only) View the detailed agenda at www.ncwit.org/18K12Meeting. |
Grapevine 1+2 |
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3:00PM - 4:00PM
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Academic Alliance (AA) Meeting(for AA member representatives and invited guests only) View the detailed agenda at www.ncwit.org/18AAMeeting. |
Texas Ballroom D |
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3:00PM - 4:00PM
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Workforce & Entrepreneurial Alliances (WA & EA) Meeting(for WA and EA member representatives and invited guests only) View the detailed agenda at www.ncwit.org/18WAEAMeeting. |
Texas Ballroom C |
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4:00PM - 4:30PM
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Break and MoveMake your way to the opening plenary. |
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4:30PM - 6:00PM
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Plenary I: The Joanne Cohoon Memorial Plenary
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Texas Ballroom A+B |
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6:00PM - 6:30PM
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Break and MoveWalk/Shuttle your way to the reception. |
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6:30PM - 8:00PM
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Networking ReceptionPlease join us for a reception with members of the NCWIT community and invited guests.
We would like to give a huge thanks to 2018 NCWIT Summit Sponsors Anchor Point Foundation, Autodesk, Johnson & Johnson, Palo Alto Networks, and PNC.
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7:30AM - 6:00PM
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Registration IICheck in, pick up swag and resources, and join the conversation in more ways than one. |
Texas Ballroom Foyer | |
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8:00AM - 9:00AM
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Breakfast IIJoin other attendees bright and early for breakfast.
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Longhorn D |
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9:00AM - 1:00PM
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K-12 Alliance Meeting(for K-12 Alliance member representatives and invited guests only) View the detailed agenda at www.ncwit.org/18K12Meeting. |
San Antonio 4-6 |
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9:00AM - 1:00PM
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Academic Alliance Meeting(for AA member representatives and invited guests only) View the detailed agenda at www.ncwit.org/18AAMeeting. |
Texas Ballroom D |
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9:00AM - 1:00PM
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Workforce & Entrepreneurial Alliance Meeting(for WA and EA member representatives and invited guests only) View the detailed agenda at www.ncwit.org/18WAEAMeeting. |
Texas Ballroom C |
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1:00PM - 2:00PM
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Networking LunchRefuel, and get ready for more engaging conversation with fellow attendees.
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Longhorn D |
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2:00PM - 3:45PM
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Plenary II
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Texas Ballroom A+B |
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3:45PM - 4:00PM
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Break and MoveMake your way to a breakout session.
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4:00PM - 5:30PM
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60 and 90 Minute BreakoutsWe are offering a multitude of sessions for deeper discussion and collaboration so that you feel inspired and prepared to make change after the Summit is over.
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4:00PM - 5:00PM
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*60 Minute Interactive Workshop - #MeToo, Men & Tech: Possibilities & Perils in a Time of Change: Katz Plenary Debrief*This workshop will be 60 minutes. Still thinking about the issues raised in Jackson Katz’s plenary and want to discuss more with fellow attendees? Want to explore how to take action and apply some of these ideas to your specific context? Come join Dr. Brenda Allen who will facilitate this session, helping attendees delve further into these issues and translate key learnings into concrete strategies for making a difference.
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San Antonio 4-6 |
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4:00PM - 5:30PM
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90 Minute Interactive Workshop - Building Your Diversity ToolkitAs our institutions focus on diversifying our campuses and workplaces, one of the questions we need to ask as we "build our diversity toolkit" is how can our program, department, or institution better model an inclusive environment that attracts a diverse body? Though we will think broadly across diversity and inclusivity, we focus specifically on the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality to identify barriers that disrupt building an inclusive climate, and explore ideas and practices on how to sustain diversity, equity, and inclusion, even in the midst of difficult moments.
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Dallas 5 |
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4:00PM - 5:30PM
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90 Minute Interactive Workshop - What Would You Say If... Helping Change Leaders Respond to Microaggressions, Bias, and Other NonsenseIn this hands-on workshop, learn practical strategies for what you can do, as a change leader to make your classroom, workplace, or program more inclusive.
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Texas Ballroom C |
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4:00PM - 5:30PM
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90 Minute Interactive Workshop - Reaching Rural and Remote Areas Bit by Bit! How to Connect Rural Populations With Resources and Opportunities for Computing EducationLearn how to engage rural areas in your state and region and reach underrepresented populations in tech. Dr. Shalini Kesar of Southern Utah University has led one of the largest NCWIT Award for AiC Affiliates for the past 5 years, recognizing 93 award recipients in 2017 – more than any other Affiliate in the nation! Although Southern Utah is not seen as a tech hub, Dr. Kesar has found success by engaging all parts of their community, including educators, parents, local businesses, clubs, and after-school activities in an effort to promote more women in tech.
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Dallas 3+4 |
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4:00PM - 5:30PM
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90 Minute Interactive Workshop - How Can the Physical Environment Increase Inclusiveness?In this interactive workshop, we will begin with the social science research showing that the physical environment of your department, lab or office, is an important influencer of whether or not people feel that they belong in computing or not. Next, we will consider what changes can be made in décor and physical setup to set the stage for a more inclusive culture and how to make other other changes to culture to create a more inclusive environment. Bring your photos, ideas, and questions.
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San Antonio 5 |
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4:00PM - 5:30PM
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90 Minute Interactive Workshop - Improve Your CS/IT Program’s Culture: An Academic Alliance “Living Resource” WorkshopExplore with other Academic Alliance members strategies for improving your department’s climate for inclusion and diversity in three key areas: 1) effective and inclusive faculty hiring, 2) improving student culture, and 3) improving physical spaces. Our exploration of each initiative will include 1) a review of relevant NCWIT resource(s), 2) presentations of "living" case studies by Drs. Camp, Fizzano, and Paxton, and 3) break-out work sessions where participants will consider their own institutions’ situations against the backdrop of the presentations to suggest improvements and updates to the target resources.
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Del Rio 3 |
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4:00PM - 5:30PM
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90 Minute Interactive Workshop - Just Because You Always Hear It, Doesn’t Mean It’s True: Applying NCWIT’s Critical Listening GuideTo cultivate interconnected, inclusive teams, change leaders need to recognize and celebrate diverse backgrounds and perspectives. This jiffy listening skills tune-up session uses active exploration of inclusion and diversity concepts to help participants evaluate problematic statements and practice the skills that will help them intervene. Using a hands-on version of NCWIT’s Critical Listening Guide, participants will recognize, describe, and analyze instances of implicit bias and practice responses to exclusionary language.
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San Antonio 3 |
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4:00PM - 5:30PM
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90 Minute Interactive Workshop - Ensuring Engagement and Relevance in Black Communities: From Kindergarten to WorkplaceHow can race impact people’s willingness to engage in K-12 through workplace? This session will include small group discussions focused on particular NCWIT resources, as well as a facilitated conversation about engaging with Black communities in increasing the meaningful representation of women in computing. If you have prior experience or no experience, let’s come together to discuss the challenges, obstacles, and rewards for intentional cross-race dialogue in school, college, and the workplace.
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San Antonio 6 |
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4:00PM - 5:30PM
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90 Minute Mini-Plenary - Using Data Science to Accelerate Diversity & Inclusion InitiativesIn her presentation, Dr. Basu will combine two of her passions – data science and working for social good — to illustrate how advanced analytics can help drive Diversity & Inclusion. Sarmila will draw on her work to show how data science (predictive modeling in particular) can help identify students or employees facing conditions that increase the likelihood of attrition, and how early intervention can help increase graduation or retention rates. She will also discuss how data science can be used to detect subtle biases and implement processes to address these biases and improve retention. |
San Antonio 1+2 |
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4:00PM - 5:00PM
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*60 Minute Interactive Workshop - Pink Brain, Blue Brain: Eliot Plenary Debrief*This workshop will be 60 minutes. Still thinking about the issues raised in Lise Eliot’s plenary and want to discuss more with fellow attendees? Want to explore how to take action and apply some of these ideas to your specific context? Come join Dr. Lise Eliot who will facilitate this session, helping attendees delve further into these issues and translate key learnings into concrete strategies for making a difference. |
Dallas 2 |
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5:30PM - 6:30PM
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Wine and Cheese Happy HourPlease join us for a Happy Hour with members of the NCWIT community and invited guests.
We would like to give a huge thanks to 2018 NCWIT Summit Sponsors Anchor Point Foundation, Autodesk, Johnson & Johnson, Palo Alto Networks, and PNC.
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Texas Ballroom Foyer |
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7:45AM - 4:00PM
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Registration IIICheck in, pick up swag and resources, and join the conversation in more ways than one. |
Texas Ballroom Foyer | |
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8:00AM - 9:00AM
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Breakfast IIIJoin other attendees bright and early for breakfast before the 90 Minute Breakout Sessions.
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Longhorn D |
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9:00AM - 10:30AM
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90 Minute BreakoutsWe are offering a multitude of sessions for deeper discussion and collaboration so that you feel inspired and prepared to make change after the Summit is over. |
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9:00AM - 10:30AM
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90 Minute Interactive Workshop - Building Your Diversity ToolkitAs our institutions focus on diversifying our campuses and workplaces, one of the questions we need to ask as we "build our diversity toolkit" is how can our program, department, or institution better model an inclusive environment that attracts a diverse body? Though we will think broadly across diversity and inclusivity, we focus specifically on the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality to identify barriers that disrupt building an inclusive climate, and explore ideas and practices on how to sustain diversity, equity, and inclusion, even in the midst of difficult moments.
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Dallas 5 |
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9:00AM - 10:30AM
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90 Minute Interactive Workshop - Let's Talk R&R: Expert Advice on Undergraduate Recruitment and RetentionDo you have questions about how to increase the representation of women in your undergraduate computing program? Come to this session for personalized advice from our experienced NCWIT Extension Services for Undergraduate Programs consultants.
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Texas Ballroom C |
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9:00AM - 10:30AM
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90 Minute Interactive Workshop - Keeping the ALL in CSforALLThe movement to build computer science education for the U.S. is well under way, with new states, districts, and providers joining every day. As the institutionalization of CS progresses in our communities, ensuring that the CS programs are truly inclusive of girls and underrepresented students at the foundation is more critical than ever. During this workshop, we will discuss and devise strategies for leveraging the expertise, resources, and footprint of the NCWIT K-12 Alliance to facilitate implementation of inclusive CS education and how NCWIT members can act as inclusion ambassadors in their communities./div>
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Dallas 3+4 |
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9:00AM - 10:30AM
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90 Minute Interactive Workshop - What's the Formula for Understanding and Improving Student Motivation?Ideally, efforts by faculty, staff, and administration to improve instruction and student learning would be guided by motivation theory and research. However, understanding this substantial body of knowledge can be time consuming and daunting. In this workshop, Dr. Kenn Barron from the Motivation Research Institute at James Madison University will cut through the complexity to provide a single, unifying formula that pinpoints the major sources of student motivation. You will learn how evidence-based practices that promote each source of motivation can be applied to your own teaching, courses, and programs to create conditions in which all students can thrive. Finally, you will learn about the importance of assessing student motivation to guide and evaluate your efforts.
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San Antonio 1+2 |
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9:00AM - 10:30AM
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90 Minute Interactive Workshop - Just Because You Always Hear It, Doesn’t Mean It’s TrueTo cultivate interconnected, inclusive teams, change leaders need to recognize and celebrate diverse backgrounds and perspectives. This jiffy listening skills tune-up session uses active exploration of inclusion and diversity concepts to help participants evaluate problematic statements and practice the skills that will help them intervene. Using a hands-on version of NCWIT’s critical listening guide, participants will recognize, describe, and analyze instances of implicit bias and practice responses to exclusionary language.
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San Antonio 3 |
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9:00AM - 10:30AM
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90 Minute Interactive Workshop - How to Make Your Corporate Diversity Programs CountYou will leave this workshop having learned simple methods for thoughtfully measuring the impact of corporate diversity programs, how to build a community of practice in your company, and next steps for how you will measure your initiatives. Participants will also have a chance to share experiences, successes and challenges.
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San Antonio 5 |
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9:00AM - 10:30AM
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90 Minute Interactive Workshop - Strengthening 2- to 4-Year Transfer Pathways: Implications for Broadening ParticipationMillions of students start at community colleges each year, most of whom hope to transfer and earn a bachelor's degree, yet less than 15% are successful in doing so, including <0.2% in computer science. This workshop will apply recent findings from national research on highly-effective transfer partnerships between community college universities to explore how college, university, industry, and community leaders can better harness the talents of community college students.
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San Antonio 4 |
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9:00AM - 10:30AM
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90 Minute Interactive Workshop - Avatars, Agency, and STEM Identity Development in Computer Science EducationFostering critical computational literacy requires attention to students learning computer science content, agency development, as well as identity formation as STEM learners and practitioners. In this interactive workshop we consider what factors contribute to successfully doing this in computer-based learning environments. As part of this, we share current research on avatars and computer-based learning, discuss results from workshops we ran with secondary level students, and engage participants in activities and discussion.
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Del Rio 3 |
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9:00AM - 10:30AM
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90 Minute Mini-Plenary - Communication Made EasyWe explore the technique of active listening through experiential exercises. You will learn how quickly you are able to keep track of details when your vision is not a distraction and how this learning can help you create more inclusive work and learning environments for students and employees with visual impairments.
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Dallas 2 |
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9:00AM - 10:30AM
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90 Minute Mini-Plenary - Reducing Gender Bias in Machine Learning SystemsData-driven machine learning methods for recognizing objects and concepts from complex data such as images and text have made great progress in recent years. This session will explore the ways in which some of the systems are encoding and reinforcing societal biases in their predictions, and ways to successfully reduce these biases. |
San Antonio 6 |
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10:30AM - 11:00AM
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Break and MoveMake your way to the closing plenary. |
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11:00AM - 12:30PM
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Plenary III
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Texas Ballroom A+B |
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12:30PM - 1:30PM
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AiC Collegiate Award Recipient and Change Leader Scholar Debrief(for students who are Change Leader Scholars or Collegiate Award recipients only) Students will gather to share their Summit experiences. A boxed lunch is available for K-12 Executive Council members; AiC affiliate coordinators, team members, and community members; SSAB members; Change Leader scholars; and Collegiate Award recipients. |
San Antonio 6 |
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1:00PM - 2:00PM
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K-12 Executive Council Debrief(K-12 Executive Council members only) The K-12 Executive Council will meet to determine action items and next steps. A boxed lunch is available for K-12 Executive Council members; AiC affiliate coordinators, team members, and community members; SSAB members; Change Leader scholars; and Collegiate Award recipients. |
San Antonio 4 |
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1:00PM - 5:00PM
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Social Science Advisory Board (SSAB) Meeting(for SSAB members only) Members of the Social Science Advisory Board (SSAB) provide guidance based on their knowledge of research and theory at the intersection of women and computing. The board will draw on relevant research to discuss NCWIT programs and platforms in relation to larger social trends. A boxed lunch is available for K-12 Executive Council members; AiC affiliate coordinators, team members, and community members; SSAB members; Change Leader scholars; and Collegiate Award recipients. |
Dallas 5 |
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1:00PM - 6:00PM
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Aspirations in Computing (AiC) Meeting(for AiC affiliate coordinators and team members only) AiC participants meet to discuss milestones, design strategy for expansion and outreach, plan future goals, and set outcomes for all components of the AiC program. A boxed lunch is available for K-12 Executive Council members; AiC affiliate coordinators, team members, and community members; SSAB members; Change Leader scholars; and Collegiate Award recipients. |
San Antonio 1-3 |
