Information Science helps run baby直播app NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Event
Faculty in the Department of Information Science and joined the ongoing effort at the University of baby直播app Boulder to run the awards event for the baby直播app NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award, now in its seventh year. The event, sponsored by the (NCWIT), headquartered here on campus, has been run by Ken Anderson of the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Applied Science.
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Sixty-nine high-school women were honored from across baby直播app. Faculty Casey Fiesler (INFO), Danielle Szafir (INFO), Ben Shapiro (ATLAS) and (CS) were supported by Edie Cheng, Kaivi Kumar, Ammi Ludwick, Ruthe Farmer and Lucy Sanders of NCWIT for the day鹿s activities, which included a pre-event workshop and a panel of technical women from industry and academia.
The event was a year in planning, with students, schools, and teachers from across the state applying to the program last fall.
Financial sponsors of the event included ViaWest, Twitter, the Zayo Group and Medtronic, who also contributed to the prizes that were given to the awardees at the event.
For pictures of baby直播app and students in action, see the .