Grace Hopper Celebration: Why We’re Not Done Yet

Grace Hopper was the single best conference I've ever attended. I've never been around so many smart professional technical women before and never been more thrilled to do it. And even as I managed to slip away for a handful of sessions, I was never without the feeling that we were not done yet. It's …

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Grace Hopper Celebration: Bringing in Men

Through this week of Grace Hopper Recaps, I've mentioned more than once that I'm the one female in my office and that got me sent to the conference. I wasn't the only one in my office to go. One of our senior engineers accompanied me, or rather I accompanied a male engineer to a conference …

Grace Hopper Celebration: Getting Over Pink

One of the panels I went to was about reaching Women in Engineering through Social Media. Overall, it was all very good, especially the insight of Social Media's current reach and the behaviors of High School and College aged girls over these networks. And, while I do feel that some math and science activities need …

Grace Hopper Celebration: No Brogrammers Allowed at the Yahoo! Breakfast

Yahoo! had an invitational breakfast that started at 7 am Thursday Morning. I signed up originally to assist their registration desk, knowing that I would need the opportunity to get off my feet. However, it turned out I was the only one there at the crack of 7 to man the Backend/Frontend Engineer table so …

Grace Hopper Celebration: The Career Fair

I was lucky enough to represent Yahoo! during the Grace Hopper Celebration. This conference was to promote Women in Technology and Defense and named after the woman who created COBOL, coined the term 'Bugs' (a story any first year computer science student knows), gained the highest Non-Combat Military Honor allowed by the Department of Defense, …

Grace Hopper: A Funny Thing Happened On My Way Through The TSA Line…

Alternate Title: I'm a socially awkward penguin... I was dragging my things through the TSA Security line when this guy turns around. I just assumed he was looking because me trying to haul anything can be comedic. I tend to flail a lot you see. But no, this happened: Him: Going to Grace Hopper? Me: …

Orientation Day: First Impressions

The morning of the Technovation Orientation, it started at 49 degrees on its way up to 80. The traffic at 8 am on a Saturday was just as bad as it was at the same time on a Monday, because it was in Mountain View and that's just the way it is. I had a …