Members of the Extension Services team will be meeting prior to the opening of the Summit. 

NCWIT Pacesetters will gather for a meeting prior to the opening of the Summit.

Meeting Agenda

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

Plenary I: "Negotiation for Change Leaders"

Negotiation is problem solving. The goal is not to get a deal; the goal is to get a good deal.  Four steps to achieving a successful negotiation: Assess, Prepare, Ask, Package. Three questions to prepare  to enter a negotiation: Why are you asking? How are you asking? For whom are you asking?

• AA Meetup Agenda
• WA and EA Meetup Agenda
• K-12 Meetup Agenda
• AGA Meetup Agenda
• Tapestry High School Teacher Meetup Agenda

Join other Summit attendees for a community lunch

Come learn about the obstacles to men’s support for gender equality, especially in technology, as well as the reasons organizations and men should and can support gender diversity.

Come hear our workshop speakers pitch their topics.

Come celebrate the winners of the 2014 Southern California NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing as we recognize their many computing achievements. These young women are some of the best and the brightest in Southern California and have been selected for their computing and IT aptitude, leadership ability, academic history, and their plans for post-secondary education. We will also be recognizing the 2014 Southern California Educator Award Winner, selected for encouraging students to continue their interest in computing and technology and promoting gender equity in computing.

Please join us for a reception with members of the community and invited guests. Aspiration award winners and their families will be in attendance.

1. Mark Guzdial, How to change a state: Making computing education fit into public education - Decisions about public education in the United States are distributed. Individual states, and 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, trying to figure out what works best. The downside is that there are hundreds of decision-makers who have to be convinced to try out computer science classes in their schools. There are only about 2000 Advanced Placement Computer Science teachers in the United States today, in our 25,000 high schools. If we want females and under-represented minority students to discover computing, we have to change the school policies so that they get access to computer science classes. In this workshop, we'll talk about what's working in states like Georgia, Massachusetts, South Carolina, and California. We'll give you a roadmap, based on the experiences in the Expanding Computing Education Pathways alliance. We'll talk about the models for outreach and advocacy, setting up organizations, assessing your needs, and influencing policy-holders.

2. Rachael King, 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, 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, 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, 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, Yes, You Do Belong Here - Detailed description coming soon.

7. Adrianna Kezar, Creating change and Motivating others to Innovate (Audience focus: Academic) - Dr. Kezar will explain research based principles for creating change and how to effectively lead change.  Information technology is often resisted by faculty and staff on campuses who are not familiar with its potential.  In this session, Kezar helps explain how to overcome resistance to change and facilitate changes on campus. 

8. Melissa Thomas-Hunt, 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, 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.

Help us recognize outstanding achievements by members of our community. For more information on these awards please visit the NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award, NCWIT Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award and NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund pages.

Detailed description coming soon.

The Social Science Advisory Board (SSAB) is an advisory group of social scientists from preeminent institutions nationwide that supports NCWIT initiatives and goals through their knowledge of research and theory at the intersection of women and computing. They meet face-to-face annually at the NCWIT Summit.

Meeting Agenda