February 2013 - uWomen

[UWAB] W@CC Meeting Minutes, Sept 20th 2012
by Atmadja, Alvina E 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

Hi girls! Here's the link to this week's meeting minutes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hf4Bx9rNIwclvCRadbcxB8xaVvvWEwP3KfZjax-… Quick recap: * We'll be meeting in front of CoC entrance at 6 pm for the Microsoft dinner on Sept 25th. * Our meeting time remains at 8-9 pm every Thursday * If you want to submit a T-shirt design for W@CC, please email Alissa Hartenbaum or Kaitlin Powell. * Next week we'll talk about Threads for CS and CM. -- Best, Alvina E. Atmadja

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[UWAB] Today's Meeting
by Powell, Kaitlin E 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Hi everybody! I hope everyone is having a good Thursday! For those going to the Aquarium event tonight, have fun! It seems like a lot of people are probably going to be going this year, so our meeting tonight is going to just be a topic discussion. Our meeting, as usual, will be held in room 354 of the CoC from 6:30-7:30. I hope to see you there! Kaitlin Powell

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[UWAB] Meeting Minutes and Mall Trip
by Alissa Hartenbaum 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

Hi girls! Thanks to everyone who came to the Wikipedia Relay Race today and won a prize! Our meeting minutes can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qkeF6SLkg4X_iaDy9xl4PR2Kz75lO0SwTHkO7FU… Want to take a break from homework? Want to go shopping? Come meet outside the College of Computing Building Saturday at 10:30am for a trip to Perimeter Mall. If you are interested in coming, please take moment to fill out this survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BV3V8Y3 See you Saturday! Alissa Hartenbaum -- ahartenbaum3(a)gatech.edu Computational Media Undergrad - Georgia Institute of Technology Co-Chair Women @ the College of Computing

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[UWAB] Tonight's Meeting
by Powell, Kaitlin E 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

Hi Everybody! I want to remind everyone about our meeting tonight in room 354 of the CoC from 6:30-7:30. Tonight we will be doing a Wikipedia Relay Race, and winners will get prizes (many of which are Georgia Tech themed)! We will also be talking a little more about the mall trip for this weekend. I hope to see you there! Kaitlin Powell

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[UWAB] Volunteers Needed for NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing
by Jennifer Whitlow 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

Hi everyone, I'm sending this email to see if any of you are available to volunteer for this year's Georgia Affiliate NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing on Sunday, February 24th from 2pm-6pm at the Historic Academy of Medicine at Georgia Tech. the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing is a national and regional award that recognizes high school women for their aspirations and accomplishments in computing (more information about the award can be found at http://ww2.ncwit.org/award/award.index.php. Georgia Tech will be hosting the Georgia Affiliate for the 3rd year. We are looking for volunteers to help with registration from 2:30-3:45pm, with lining up the award recipients for the ceremony 3:45-4:00pm, and just mingling with the recipients and their families and friends. If you are available for all or part of the event and want to volunteer, please let me know as soon as possible. We would love to have as many current women in computing recognizing and acknowledging these future young women in computing. If you have any questions, just let me know. Thank you! Jennifer Jennifer Whitlow Program Coordinator for Enrollment College of Computing Phone: 404-385-2441

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[UWAB] Game Night!
by Powell, Kaitlin E 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

Hi Everybody! I hope your Valentine's Day's were all wonderful. I want to remind everybody about our Game Night tonight from 7:00-9:00 pm in room 347 of the CoC. We will have games and all of the requested foods (at least five different forms of ice cream, with toppings, macaroni and cheese, cookies, and sandwiches). Have a wonderful Friday! Kaitlin Powell

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[UWAB] Movie Night (Tonight's Meeting)
by Powell, Kaitlin E 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

Hi everybody! As we discussed in last week's meeting, tonight's meeting will be replaced by a Movie Night event. We will be watching the movie we chose in the meeting, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, in room 2456 of the Klaus building (the side with the classrooms) from 6:30-8:30. I also want to remind everyone of our Game Night tomorrow night. Come join us to play board games (and card games), eat, and have a lot of fun tomorrow night from 7:00-9:00 in room 347 of the CoC! Also, just to be sure it this important information isn't hidden: MOVIE NIGHT TONIGHT IS IN ROOM 2456 OF THE KLAUS BUILDING! Happy Valentines Day! Kaitlin Powell

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[UWAB] Theory in the Machine, or, A Feminist in a Software Lab - LMC Lecture Series Talk
by Jennifer Whitlow 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

Hi ladies, Please see the upcoming opportunity below. Jennifer Whitlow GT College of Computing Program Coordinator for Enrollment jwhitlow(a)cc.gatech.edu 404-385-2441 Theory in the Machine, or, A Feminist in a Software Lab A talk by Professor Tara McPherson, University of Southern California Technology Square Research Building, Auditorium Wednesday, Feb 13, at 2:00pm [cid:6E9BC6F4-B15F-4299-B680-02D2ECFE61A3@hsd1.ga.comcast.net.]<http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ot7MrJhXEPc/UQH6ytTygeI/AAAAAAAAAX4/EE1kV3ZQSWM/s…> Please mark your calendars for the first event in this semester's Distinguished Speaker Series, a talk by Tara McPherson<http://cinema.usc.edu/directories/profile.cfm?id=6590>. McPherson is Associate Professor of Gender and Critical Studies in USC's School of Cinematic Arts, lead PI (with funding from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the NEH, and others) for the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture<http://scalar.usc.edu/updates/>'s software lab, author of Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South(Duke UP: 2003), co-editor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture(Duke UP: 2003), and editor of Digital Youth, Innovation and the Unexpected (MIT Press, 2008). She is also the Founding Editor of Vectors<http://www.vectorsjournal.org/>, a multimedia journal, and is an editor for the MacArthur-supported International Journal of Learning and Media (MIT Press). McPherson's new media research focuses on issues of computation, gender, and race, as well as upon the development of new tools and paradigms for digital publishing, learning, and authorship. At Georgia Tech, she'll present a talk entitled, "Theory in the Machine, or, A Feminist in a Software Lab." The abstract is as follows: How did a feminist film scholar trained in post-structuralist theory end up running a software lab? In answering that question, this talk engages various histories in the development of computational systems in order to argue that we need more humanities scholars to take seriously issues in the design and implementation of software systems. Humanities scholars are particularly well suited to help us think through such topics as the status of the archive as it mutates into the database, the possibilities for less hierarchical computing, and the cultural contexts of code. In short, this talk argues that neither theorizing media nor building new technologies is sufficient onto itself; we must necessarily do both. As a concrete example of the relationship of theory to practice, I will look at the work our USC team has undertaken over the last decade, including the digital journal, Vectors, and the new multimodal authoring platform, Scalar. Our research has always been in direct dialogue with key issues in the interpretative humanities, including discussions of race, gender, sexuality, social justice and power. Can such a dialogue come to shape the practice of software design? The event is sponsored by: School of Literature, Media, and Communication<http://lmc.gatech.edu/> Women, Science, and Technology Learning Community<http://www.wst.gatech.edu/lc.html> Office of Diversity Programs<http://www.diversityprograms.gatech.edu/> For more information, please contact Lauren Klein<mailto:lauren.klein@lmc.gatech.edu> or Vinicius Navarro<mailto:%22Navarro,%20Vinicius%20D%22%20%3Cvinicius.navarro@lmc.gatech.edu%3E>. Upcoming speakers: Thecla Schiphorst<http://www.sfu.ca/~tschipho/>, Thursday, March 7th Laura Otis<http://www.english.emory.edu/people/faculty/otis.htm>, Thursday, March 28th

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[UWAB] Fwd: W@CC Opportunity: BGC Atlanta Chapter Volunteer - Robot Expo!
by Alissa Hartenbaum 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Hi girls, Check out this event! Alissa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy Buolamwini" <joy(a)jovialdesigns.com> To: ahartenbaum3(a)gatech.edu Hi Alissa! Hope this new semester is treating you well. Can you send out the following and the flyer to W@CC members as I think this is a great opportunity to really serve as role models. :-). --------------------------------- WHAT Black Girls Code (BGC) Atlanta Chapter is looking for volunteers for our Robot Expo! Check out their video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1mXZMCaRmk WHEN Saturday, February 16, 2013 WHERE Georgia Tech Research Institute. DETAILS We need technical and teaching assistants (1:4 girls ratio) who have knowledge of coding and software development and/or has worked with robotics in some capacity . Additionally, volunteers are needed for classroom assistants (ensuring all girls are accounted for in the classroom and in transport from one area to the next), registration, ushers, greeters and setups. There is a mandatory meetup the night before to tour the venue and review roles. If you are interested, please contact Rose Robinson at rosario.robnson(a)gmail.com by Friday, February 8, 2013. Logistical information is listed below. IT'S POPPING This is event is sold out! We have 80 girls registered with 20 on the waitlist. In parallel, BGC will hold a panel discussion for the parents. Lunch will be served for all volunteers! CNN will be covering this event, but will have someone assigned to the media. Robot Expo! Date: Saturday, February 16, 2013 Event time: 10am - 3pm Volunteer time: 8am - 4pm Venue: Georgia Tech Research Institute Volunteer Meetup (Mandatory) Date: Friday, February 15, 2013 Time: 6pm - 8pm (Please be on time!) Venue: Georgia Tech Research Institute Rose Robinson Volunteer Coordinator , BGC Atlanta rosario.robinson(a)gmail.com http://www.blackgirlscode.org ☛ Get a signature like this. Click here. -- ahartenbaum3(a)gatech.edu Computational Media Undergrad - Georgia Institute of Technology Co-Chair Women @ the College of Computing

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[UWAB] Tomorrow's meeting
by Powell, Kaitlin E 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

Hi everybody! I hope your week is going great and that anyone with an interview does/did well! I wanted to remind everybody about our meeting tomorrow from 6:30-7:30 pm in room 354 of the CoC (as usual). We will be discussing movie night (which we will be holding next Thursday in place of our meeting) as well as our website. I also want to remind you all about our Game Night coming up. It will be Next Friday (the 15th of February) from 7:00-9:00 pm in room 347 of the CoC. We will be playing board games, having fun with friends, and eating all kinds of good food. Have a great rest of the week! Kaitlin Powell

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