Thank you Leslie for posting this! I have a team of four young women working on testing a VM with Ushahidi on it. They're going to report on their experiences in a poster. The conference looks like fun!
Heidi On 2/16/19 2:50 AM, Leslie Hawthorn wrote: > **** EXTERNAL MESSAGE **** > > Just the messenger, but forwarding since I know many folks in the New > England area of the United States are on this list. > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Elizabeth Anne Gates Applin <anne.app...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 at 02:19 > Subject: [Systers] New England Celebration of Women in Computing > To: <systers+celebratio...@systers.org> > > > Systers, > We need speakers! This is a student centered event and we only > have room to feed 200, But speakers who want to come and only present > can register as volunteers. Come share your strength and your > experiences... ask your employers to come recruit, we still need sponsors... > recruiters, swag, conference bags? As faculty, going to Grace Hopper > and being in the company of so many technical women had a huge > impact on me. We need to encourage the women we have, to stay. Come > be that inspiration! This is not a peer reviewed event. Any panel, > technical > session, or workshop that fits will be welcomed. The conference is only > 24 hours... 1 pm Friday to 1 pm Saturday. > > Does anyone want to do the resume Rx? critique resumes and help > students present themselves well? wow... A "how to present yourself > well" session would be useful to the students! What are the sought after > skill sets?? > > We would like a profession women track running parallel to the student track > proposals for either track would be welcomed as would full participants in > the > conference. > > Below is the CFP that has gone out to the university population twice. > Come on Boston! We had a great turnout in Portland Maine two years > ago. > Thanks, > Anne > ============== > Please disseminate this Call For Participation to your students, > colleagues, and contacts. > > **** SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS IN TWO WEEKS! - SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL NOW! **** > > > Dear Colleagues, > > The Second New England Celebration of Women in Computing (NECWiC) will be > held on Friday, April 26, and Saturday, April 27, 2019, at Simmons > University in Boston, Massachusetts. We have an exciting event planned, > with distinguished keynote speakers (Nicole Immorlica (Microsoft Research > New England Lab) and Jeannie Albrecht (Williams College), panels, technical > sessions, hands-on training workshops, a career fair, and more. > > Student participants are encouraged to submit posters of their research > projects for our poster session (there will be prizes!) Students are also > invited to participate in the third Simmons "SharkHack" hackathon > <http://scsharkhack.org/> immediately following the conference -- SharkHack > runs from Friday afternoon through Sunday midday. Subsidized registration > and housing (limited capacity) is available for student attendees. > > Please consider organizing a NECWiC session, participating yourself, and > encouraging your students and colleagues to attend! > > Questions about the conference may be directed to nec...@simmons.edu. > > *Present and Participate: (Proposal Deadline in Two Weeks)* > Please submit your proposals for panels, student research posters, oral > technical presentations, workshops by *March 1, 2019* *(note: deadline has > been extended!)*: > https://necwic.hosting.acm.org/submissions/ > Participants are also invited to submit their resumes by *March 15*. You > can specify whether you want your resume to be made available to our > industry and academic partners, or whether you would like to submit it for > review during our one-on-one "Resume Rx" sessions. > > *Register to Attend:* > Registration is now open at: > https://necwic.hosting.acm.org/registration/ > Early (before March 15) student registration is $25, or $35 with a shared > hotel room. (Subsidized student hotel space is available only for students > who live more than 30 miles away, and we have limited capacity, so please > register early if you are requesting this option!) Non-student early > registration is $100. Registration includes attendance at all events; > dinner on Friday; lunch on Saturday; and refreshments during breaks. > > Lodging for conference attendees is available at The Inn at Longwood > Medical at a special conference rate of $209 (single) or $229 (double) - > please book your lodging through the registration site. > > *Sponsorship:* > NECWiC is cosponsored by ACM-W, Microsoft, and CRA-W. We are actively > seeking additional sponsors and supporters! If you are interested in > becoming a sponsor and/or connecting to students as an employer at the > Career Fair, please visit https://necwic.hosting.acm.org/sponsors/ or > contact Donna Seppy (donna.se...@maine.edu). > > > *Inquiries:* > Please send any inquiries to nec...@simmons.edu or to the appropriate > organizer: > https://necwic.hosting.acm.org/organizing-committee/ > > > Best regards, and we hope to see you in Boston in April! > > *Anne Applin* (Southern Maine Community College), Conference Chair > *Marie desJardins* (Simmons University), Local Arrangements Chair > *Stephanie Li* (Colby College) and *Deborah Boisvert* (University of > Massachusetts-Boston), Program Co-Chairs > *Donna Seppy* (University of Maine) and *Nanette Veilleux* (Simmons > University), Sponsorship/Career Fair Co-Chairs > *Amber Stubbs* (Simmons University), Poster Competition Chair > > > To unsubscribe from this conversation, send email to > <systers+celebration42+unsubscr...@systers.org> or visit > <http://systers.org/mailman/options/systers?override=10176&preference=0> > To contribute to this conversation, use your mailer's reply-all or > reply-group command or send your message to > systers+celebratio...@systers.org > To start a new conversation, send email to <systers+...@systers.org> > To unsubscribe entirely from systers, send email to > <systers-requ...@systers.org> with subject unsubscribe. > > > -- > Leslie Hawthorn > http://twitter.com/lhawthorn > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/ _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/
