August is an exciting month for ABI as we gear up for the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), happening October 17-20 in Orlando, Florida. Our Change Agent Committee has selected three award recipients to be presented at the conference.
This month, we’re focusing on one of the previous winners and how the award has impacted her life. Next month, we’ll highlight another past winner and her experiences after receiving the Change Agent Award.
-The ABI Staff
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2007 CHANGE AGENT AWARD RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED
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This years Change Agent Award winners have been selected: Wafa AlMansoori (Bahrain), Zeinab Safar (Egypt), and Irina Khomeriki (Georgia).
These women have all been chosen because of their work in expanding and influencing the technology careers of girls and women outside of the United States.
 This month, we highlight a past award winner Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, (second from the left) who used the knowledge she gained at GHC 2006 and as a 2006 Change Agent winner and took it back to her home country of Brazil.
There, she raised awareness about the lack of women in IT and created a local conference herself.
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INSPIRING GIRLS IN TECHNOLOGY
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 Learn how you can be a mentor and inspire young women around you.
Mentoring young women in grades K-12 is the key to planting the seed of interest in technology.
TechBridge is a local organization that inspires girls through hands-on activities and field trips.
(Find out how you can make a difference.)
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TAKING A DIP INTO ROBOTICS
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 “Underwater robotics on the French Riviera is pretty glamorous.”
An undergraduate in her final year of studies in Computer Science at Simon Fraser University, Angelica Lim helped to create underwater robot Têtard.
“Sometimes I imagine it zooming around at 2m/s in the frigid waters of the Atlantic, searching for mines to neutralize…” Her team took its robot to an international competition in Gosport, England to compete in an underwater obstacle course. Find out how her robot fared. |
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DR. JOAN’S MENTORING BOOK
Straight Talk About Taking Charge of Your Career
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 Every technical woman needs a mentor. But how do you find one? What are your expectations of your mentor? Dr. Joan’s Mentoring Book answers those and many more questions while providing anecdotal advice on how she maneuvered through her career to become an IBM Fellow. Plus, Telle Whitney, ABI’s President and CEO, offers her own advice in the foreword of this book.
Visit ABI’s Resources for more mentoring information.
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| GHC IS THE PLACE TO BE! |
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Don’t miss your chance to attend or sponsor this years Grace Hopper Celebration, co-located with the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing.
Hotels near the conference are filling up fast, and for good reason: GHC is the place to be for a Woman in Technology.
The conference begins on Wednesday, with the TechLeaders for Social Innovators workshop and ends with the Saturday Breakout sessions.
ABI is offering half-price child care for the conference participants and fun activities for the family.
If the price of the conference is out of your budget or you want to be part of the conference staff, then why not be a “Hopper?” For a mere eight hours of work you will get a complementary registration and have fun, too.
Jocelyn Simmonds, a 2006 GHC staffer, had this to say about her experience last year, “Working at GHC gave me the chance to meet people from around the world, a perfect opportunity to do some networking.”
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