Members of the Community College Outreach team will be meeting prior to the opening of the Summit.

Lunch will be available for attendees with meetings scheduled on May 19th.

Rane Johnson-Stempson

As change makers we know multi-stakeholder collaboration is essential if we are going to create a more inclusive world.  But such collaborations can be highly challenging and often falls short of expectations.  Partnership brokers are those who support and strengthen the partnerships by their understanding and skilled management of the collaboration process.  Skilled brokering can make all the difference to the effectiveness of complex networks, non-traditional alliances and partnerships.  In this session, you will have a condensed, fast-paced and interactive hands-on experience to learn the art and science behind brokering.  This will provide you an introduction into partnership brokering and give you the tools and skills to better manage multi-stakeholder partnerships and be the change maker needed in NCWIT and the work we do to grow more women in computing.  To learn more on partnership brokering visit: http://partnershipbrokers.org/

Please note that badges are required at all Summit events. 

Don't miss these exciting announcements from NCWIT members.

• Mitch Baranowski, Male Influencer
• Ellen Spertus, Extension Services Award Program
• Tami Mallett, Aspirations College Extension
• Rane Johnson-Stempson, The Big Dream

Alliance Co-chairs are invited to dinner on the first night of the Summit.

Join other NCWIT Summit attendees bright and early for breakfast before beginning alliance meetings.

This year’s event, our 10th anniversary, will be a special celebration — a time to recognize the significant accomplishments of our heroes and evangelists. We look forward to equipping you, as a change leader for women in technology, with ideas and action items for encouraging more girls and women to pursue computing for decades to come. 

Pioneer Award

Join us as we honor Eleanor Kolchin, the 2014 Pioneer Award Winner.

1. Mark Guzdial [Salon 1], How to change a state: Making computing education fit into public education -  In the distributed US education system, individual states (even individual school districts) decide what their students study and what counts towards high school graduation. The upside is that there are hundreds of experiments in education across the country. The downside is that there are thousands of decision-makers who have to be persuaded to put computer science classes in their schools. In this workshop, we'll talk about what's working to get CS into schools in states like Georgia, Massachusetts, South Carolina, and California. Based on our experiences in the Expanding Computing Education Pathways alliance, we'll talk about models for organizing, assessing needs, and influencing policy-makers.

2. Rachael King [Baycliff], Why You Should Never Raffle Off an iPad... (Unless You're Apple) - Learn from cold, hard case studies as we explore the best (and worst!) practices when creating a social media campaign. We'll explore everything from ideation to how to choose the right platform(s), incentives, timing (launch and length of the campaign), how to choose and achieve your specific goals, marketing the campaign, and much more. Leave with a solid checklist that will guide you through building a valuable social media campaign from start to finish, no matter how big or small your brand is.

3. Raquell Holmes [Crystal], From recognition to action: What do you do to challenge inequities?(Audience focus: Academic) - Despite invitations to be part of a vibrant working community, women and minorities often experience implicit social messages that convey: "You don’t belong here." The slights or unconscious assumptions in isolation may appear innocent, but over time are experienced as micro-aggressions or inequities given the diversity of the group (gender,race,nationality). This interactive workshop addresses, “What do we do?” Although, it is impossible to know beforehand exactly how to respond to a given situation, it is possible to improve our ability to respond.  The goal of this theater based workshop is to provide participants with practice in stepping out from roles as “bystander” or “victim” to ones of “ally,” “spect-actor” and leader for inclusion.

4. Anna Giraldo-Kerr [Cardiff], Micro Actions, Macro Impact:  Managing Differences and Minimizing Micro Inequities (Audience focus: Workforce) - During this workshop participants will learn how workplace interactions could lead to micro inequities, a process to identify and manage micro inequities, how to address micro inequities through effective reactive and proactive techniques, and how to develop a mindset centered on micro affirmations.

5. Ed Lazowska, Eric Roberts [Coral], Tsunami or Sea Change? Responding to the Explosion of Student Interest in Computer Science - Across the nation, in colleges and universities of all shapes and sizes, student interest in computer science is booming: enrollment in introductory courses, in upper-division electives, in the major. There are many reasons, including the exciting intellectual agenda of the field, the importance of “computational thinking” and of computer science itself to a broad range of fields, and the extraordinary (and extraordinarily diverse) employment opportunities available to graduates. Is this a tsunami – a phenomenon that will pass, consistent with the enrollment booms and busts of the past? Or is it a sea change, potentially more substantive and long-lived? Whatever the answer, how can we respond to the overwhelming demand? We have rapidly transitioned from a period of insufficient student demand to a period of insufficient faculty capacity. What are the right approaches – as individuals, departments, and universities? How can we create the institutional will to make the changes that are necessary? And how can we ensure that traditionally under-represented groups don’t get left behind? Come discuss these important issues!

6. Geoffrey L. Cohen [Mariner], Yes, You Do Belong Here - This session will discuss new scientific research on how brief but timely psychological interventions can close achievement gaps in education, including those between men and women in math and science. The interventions lessen the psychological costs of being marginalized. As a result they promote achievement, well-being, and health. Sometimes they  even have a positive effect that lasts over many years.

7. Christopher Metzler [Copper], Be A Change Leader Without Ruining Your Career (Audience focus: Workforce - Does not repeat in session two) - Come learn concrete, practical strategies for identifying and enlisting the help of sponsors in making the technical workplace more inclusive while also advancing your own career.  Dr. Metzler will specifically discuss strategies for developing an executive presence and an effective personal brand in order to better identify and enlist sponsors as allies for change and for increasing your influence in the organization. These strategies will also help attendees work with difficult managers or engage hesitant managers in change efforts. Attendees will begin developing their own specific sponsorship plan and will walk away with practical next steps for implementing this plan in your own organization.  

8. Melissa Thomas-Hunt [Salon 2], Leveraging Expertise to Drive Team Innovation & Performance: What Gets in the Way and How to Get Rid of It? - Whether it’s a technological breakthrough, product improvement or disruptive innovative process, teams are often assembled to drive success. The hope is that tapping the knowledge base of the most expert individuals will insure an optimal outcome. However, many factors get in the way of discovering and utilizing the knowledge at hand. Join Melissa Thomas-Hunt, Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, as she shares what elements allow teams to leverage their expertise; how those elements impact innovation and performance; and what you can do to engage teams in maximizing performance.

9. Brayden King [Sapphire], Mobilizing Influence in the Workplace: Creating Opportunities and Allies for Reform - Women in computing and technology often face challenges in the workplace as they seek to gain the acceptance of their peers, build careers, and become influential. This workshop will focus on collective strategies for creating real reform to help women gain more influence and support from their colleagues, to further their careers, and to move up organizational and industry hierarchies. We will discuss a number of skills and strategies that you can use to mobilize the support of key allies in your organization and that will help you to take advantage of opportunities for advancement.

Andrea Guendelman, Carrie van Heyst

Join other NCWIT Summit attendees bright and early for breakfast before the second session of workshops.

This is the second of two NCWIT Alliance meetings.

• AA Meeting Agenda [Rose Garden]
• WA and EA Meeting Agenda [Salons 1, 2 & 3]
• K-12 Meeting Agenda [Cardiff]
• AGA Meeting Agenda [Sunset]

Boxed lunches will be available from 12:30-1:30 PM. (Please help control our costs and prevent waste: If you are leaving for the airport before 12:00 PM do not request a box lunch.)

The NCWIT Leadership Team will be meeting after the close of the Summit. A box lunch will be provided for attendees.