Outreach Programs
We are visiting high schools in New Jersey to inspire young women to consider getting a degree in Computer Science and start a career in Computing.
Here is an article
about one of our high school visits.
NJIT's Women in Computing Society Volunteers at Nearby STEM Academy for CSEDWeek
List of visited
Schools (Partial)
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Garrett
Morgan Academy & International HS, Paterson
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St.
Vincent Academy, Newark
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Jonathan
Daython High School, Springfield
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New
Roberto Clemente
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John
F. Kennedy High School, Paterson
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Paterson
YMCA
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Eastside
High School, Paterson
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Bloomfield
High School
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East
Orange STEM Academy
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Union
City High School
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Glen
Ridge High School
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Belleville
High School
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George
Washington Carver Elementary School - After School All Stars
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St
Dominic Academy
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Newark
Academy
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Innovation
High School, Jersey City
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St.
Mary of the Assumption High School, Elizabeth NJ
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STEM
Academy High School, Paterson
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Old
Bridge High School
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Hoboken
Charter School, Hoboken
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Washington
Middle School, Harrison
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Secaucus
Middle School, Harrison
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Weequahic High School
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Churchill
Junior High School
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Infinity
Institute
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Orange
High School
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McNair
Academy
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Paterson
Charter School for Science & Technology
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Morristown
High School
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Liberty
High School
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Highland
Park Middle School
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East
Side High School, Newark
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Bloomfield
High School, 2018
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St
Mary of the Assumption High School, 2018
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Ridgefield
Memorial High School, 2018
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Hillside
Public School, 2018
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Cliffside
Park High School, NJ, Fall 2018
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All
Saints Episcopal Day School, Hoboken NJ, Fall 2018
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Dwight
Morrow High School, Englewood, NJ, Fall 2018
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Infinity
Institute, Jersey City, Fall 2018
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St.
Joseph School, East Orange, Fall 2018
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Hillside Public School, Spring 2019
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Hoboken Charter School, Spring 2019
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Hawkins Street School, Spring 2020
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Sussex Avenue School, Spring 2020
Today (6/7/2016) Dr. Geller visited Union City High School again
and talked to three classes as part of their annual Career
Day.
High School Teacher
Training
On May 23rd we started a new special program for
High School teachers.
Six NJ teachers attend Computer Science CS 100, at NJIT, together with 20 CS
majors.
This is the normal "first class" that every major
in Computing must take.
The teachers will take what they learn in the class back to their schools
and prepare their students for exciting careers in Computing.
We thank the NJIT Provost Fadi Deek
and Dean Marek Rusinkiewicz for sponsoring
this activity in support of the BRAID program.
Below left (from left to right) three of the teachers with Prof. Geller and
Prof. Kapleau. Below right: All six HS teachers.
Here is the official NJIT story about the HS teacher training program.
Publicity for NJIT
BRAID Work
NJIT's work in the BRAID project is quoted in this
article.
Our very own Krupali Patel also was
honored for her work by USMETS.
Another High School
Visit
We
are getting serious. This not just telling the students that Computing is Great
and that Computing is (also!) for Women.
We are teaching Python programming now!
On Wednesday November 30, Kalyani Shirwalkar, Krupali Patel and Ekta Mangal visited the American
History High School in Newark and helped students getting started with coding
in Python. Attached a few pictures of the event.
The session was very successful and the BRAID team members have been invited
to teach again on 4th January, 2017.
Women in Computing
Society (WiCS) Organized Local Hack Day
On
Saturday December 3rd, the Undergraduate WiCS together with the Murray Center at NJIT organized the
first ever Locak Hack Day at NJIT.
This event was co-sponsored by BRAID.
The basic idea was that a hackathon that involves staying up all night is
just too disruptive for most people. But a Hack Day is
fine.
Thanks to Raiha Khan and Rempe
Kalia for carrying the main load of organizing the
event.
Here is what Raiha said after the event:
I had a great time hosting the first Local Hack Day at NJIT this weekend.
The Hack Day was a great way for students who may not have hacked before to get
a feel for the competitive and innovative environment that hackathons foster.
Women in Computing Society will definitely continue to host and sponsor
hackathons on campus. Next time we would like to see
more of our female students compete too!
Progress, not
Perfection: Women's Panel Discussion
This
panel of five Alumnae of NJIT, on March 9, 2017, was co-sponsored by WiCS and prominently featured two "graduates of WiCS" who had founding/leading positions in the club: Jinisha Patel and Sneha Bhut
And here are our panelists. Thanks for coming back
to NJIT for this!
Jinisha Patel
Sneha Bhut
March 30, 2017: Joi Troutman of Google Visits NJIT
And gives a special presentation
to the Women in Computing Societies' (G-WiCS/WiCS/ACM-W) members.
Below Joi with officers of the Computing Clubs and
Outreach Staffers.
Joi also give a general "talk for all."
April 12: Google
gets an Award as **Best Emerging Partner** (in hiring NJIT interns, etc.)
Elizabeth Potter of Google with Computer Science Chair Cristian Borcea.
Amy Cencetti-Lee Speaks to Us
April 26, 2017
May 3rd, 2017
Dinner for Teachers
and Conselors
Women in Computing
- How far Have we Come and What Comes Next?
May 2nd, 2017
Angela Cleveland, our Keynote Speaker (middle) with James Geller and Allyson
Bailey.
Paul Orbe from a distance.
Raiha Khan, president of WiCS,
the undergraduate Women in Computing Society.
Krupali Patel, president of G-WiCS,
the graduate Women in Computing Society.
High School STEM
Fair
May 17, 2017
BRAID
proudly is "wo-manning" a table at the STEM Fair of well over 300 HS
students from Newark.
Mayor Baraka gives the Key Note.
Intel gets into AI
and Machine Learning
September 26, 2017
Co-sponosred by WiCS, G-WiCS, and ACM-W.
From left to right: Club officers Bhuvanashree Madhavan, Kalyani Shirwalkar, Swapna Sampathkumar, Mehvish
Hashmi. Then James Geller, Seth Weidman the guest speaker, Patrick Medina the
guest coordinator, and ACM-W president Samtha Reddy.
At the left end: Chaitali Shah. Others as above.
We had a full house. Really full.
We even needed an overflow room:
GRACE HOPPER 2017 !!!!
October 4, 2017
Linda
Sax. Brilliant as always.
Reporting on progress in the BRAID data analysis.
Her PhD Student Jennifer Blaney
(Undergraduate) WiCS
Graduate WiCS
ADP Visits Us
Oct 25, 2017
This
WiCS/G-WiCS/ACM-W event
brought in four ADP employees.
And another sold-out performance of our Women in
Computing Clubs. :)
Below Rachel Martin who organized the event on the ADP
side.
Kinjal Gala, Malu
Menezes, and Cynthea Ryder of ADP.
Anne Ryan Visits Us
and runs a Resume Workshop
November 29, 2017
Elle Armistead of Brooksource Visits Us
December 5, 2017
Sorry,
nobody took pictures. :(
General Membership
Meeting of WiCS
January 24, 2018
Women, Computers,
and the History of the US Workplace
Professor Alison Lefkovitz
Feb 28th
4.30pm-5.30pm
As
part of the ACM-W general membership meeting.
March 14th
Pi Day Outreach to
smaller children (about 3rd grade).
CS for All
Ruthe Farmer
March 28th 3pm-5pm
It
took 14 months of emailing to arrange this visit.
Mentorship at NJIT,
with our Alumna Krupali Patel.
Spring 2018
WiCS
+ Murray Center Mentoring Night was held on April 16th,
2018.
BRAID
"Homecoming" to Harvey Mudd College
July 12 - July 14,
2018
Summer Course of HS
Teachers
August 2018
Three high school teachers with Ian Constantin our instructor (third from left).
Fourth high school teacher taking the final exam.
NJIT FEMME9
Program. Summer 2018
"Children"
learning Java programming.
Parents are watching the final presentation.
Fall 2018. WiCS President Raiha Khan,
Kavya Seelam and Teja Seelam are
welcoming Freshmen.
September 14, 2018
We Get Visit from
Facebook!!!
Facebook
is seeking a closer cooperation with NJIT.
We are happy to comply.
McEdward Laguerre and Christian McIntire
We Went to Grace
Hopper 2018 !!!
Sept 26 - Sept 28
Here's a picture of almost all of
us. With Debbie our staff person.
Our NJIT booth. First time ever that NJIT has a booth !!!
The main speaker
Above
is a video I could not get to work.
It was the Google tent.
Food, drink and games. Check back, maybe I'll figure
it out.
Sussex Ave. Renew
School
Oct. 16, 2018
With
Darrin Sharif, Vivian Fraser (Urban League) and Mike Lee (next to Vivian).
This is about getting kids in poor neighborhoods onto computers at an early
age.
Judy Spitz
October 17, 2018
Judy
talks about how to run a gender-neutral classroom.
ACM ICPC
November 18, 2018
Not
only does NJIT send SEVEN teams to the ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest
regionals,
NJIT sends an ALL FEMALE team.
With a little help from our friends at Facebook, who paid for everything
including the bus.
Facebook's Miki Friedman (all the way to the
right) who recruited, organized, prepared, managed and accompanied the teams
every step of the way.
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>And the local organizer of the event at Manhattan
College was
Professor Tina Tian, my former PhD student and graduate.
WiCS and G-WiCS welcome John Tsai to the Computer Science Department
Spring Semester 2019
With Tejasree (middle), the new WiCS president and
Yashwee the new Event Coordinator for WiCS.
John is our new "embedded" engineer from FaceBook.
He will continue the great work of Miki Friedman last semester.
FACEBOOK VISIT!!!!!
March 1, 2019
McEdward Laguerre our gracious host.
Elizabeth Irizarry our Female Engineer/Main Speaker.
Computer Science Superstar Jeannette Wing visits WiCS / G-WiCS / ACM-W @ NJIT
March 13, 2019
Jeannette is talking about how she got into
electrical engineering first and then into
computer science, and how important her father
was for these decisions.
I couldn't resist to take a selfie. :)
Annual BRAID Meeting at Harvey Mudd College
July 11 - 13, 2019
James Geller on the panel.
There's a "me" in James.
There's also an audience.
Of course I took the picture while somebody else was talking. :)
HS Teachers take our free CS 100 Course - 2019 edition
Reconnecting with Angela Cleveland who works for NCWIT now.
Kathy Shoemaker of Rutgers in the middle.
New ideas being discussed.
No, this is not Paris. We wish. This is Cranford. In the middle
between our respective offices.
Gender Diversity and Equality Workshop
Part of NJIT's onboarding process for new PhD students.
Held for the first time ever August 21, 2019
Masha Danilenko of Insight
... did an AMAZING presentation for our Women's clubs.
On 9/25/2019
GIRLHACKS at NJIT
Spetember 28 - 29, 2019
Organized by Yashwee Kothari and the WiCS eBoard.
It was her idea, her initiative, and she even did the
fund raising.
Latest news: Yashwee will be the new WiCS president!
A few people helped, like Dina Anello. Below are
Dina, previous WiCS president Raiha Khan and Avni Shah of ADP (a sponsor).
GRACE HOPPER 2019
October 2 to 4, Orlando, Florida
It was OUT OF THIS WORLD. That's all I am going to say.
And we had two students at Richard Tapia too
But I wasn't there, so I had to take the photo in my office.
ICPC - International Collegiate Programming Contest
NY area Regionals
October 27, 2019
While this event was not, of course, "for women only"
NJIT restarted its participation only because we were
able to send an all-women team last year....
Which led to the offer to run the event this year.
When you do good things, one thing leads to another.
Leftmost is Joe Terlizzi, who runs the NY Regionals.
Women in Research Event
Kean University, Nov. 1, 2019
Co-sponsored by Google
My Presentation
My PHD Student Vipina taking part in a Panel.
She's the one in the middle chair.
Pat Morreale is speaking, initiator of the event,
and long time collaborator on all sorts of things.
Looking around...
Outreach to Ann Street School
November 19, 2019
Nisha (left) Ravichandran Uma and Ramya Malladi (right).
Alumni Dinner of WiCS and G-WiCS at NJIT
November 21st, 2019
This event gives me great joy.
First of all, because we had four BRAID alumnae come and talk
to our current WiCS members (well, some of them).
And it was an even bigger joy that the WiCS eBoard organized this
one all on their own, without any pushing from me, without any
help from me, and :) without any money from my budget.
Back (from left):
Sandra Ponganthara, Nilam Rana, Krupali Patel, Mohini Desai, Yashwee Kothari, Vrushali Koli, Megan Rottkamp, Mila Boyarkina, Michelle Bautista
Front (from left):
Christine Thomas, Pradnya Desai, Ann Rose Jose, Kavya Seelam, Emmalyn Ramos
Sandra, Krupali, Megan and Emmalyn are graduates/alumnae, the others are current students.
Visit to ADP
February 5th, 2020
Thanks Avni Shah for hosting our Women in Computing Society Board members
and winners of the ADP sponsored Hackathon at NJIT.
Isabel Espina
Prudential Event
Feb 12, 2020 at NJIT
Organized and sponsored by WiCS
Leign Ann DeLyser of CSforAll
Leading a National Movement
Feb 19, 2020
BRAID SUMMIT
From July 15 to July 17 the BRAID summit was held online.
I proudly took part in the first panel on Thursday.
Sorry if I caught you at a frowny moment.
While I know many/most people I really like it that
the name is attached for those people I met for the first time.
That's one little advantage of a Zoom summit.
HOPEFULLY IN PERSON IN 2021.
and talked to three classes as part of their annual Career Day.
Six NJ teachers attend Computer Science CS 100, at NJIT, together with 20 CS majors.
This is the normal "first class" that every major in Computing must take.
The teachers will take what they learn in the class back to their schools
and prepare their students for exciting careers in Computing.
this activity in support of the BRAID program.
Reporting on progress in the BRAID data analysis.
Parents are watching the final presentation.
Kavya Seelam and Teja Seelam are
welcoming Freshmen.
We are happy to comply.
It was the Google tent.
Food, drink and games. Check back, maybe I'll figure it out.
With a little help from our friends at Facebook, who paid for everything including the bus.
>
He will continue the great work of Miki Friedman last semester.
electrical engineering first and then into
computer science, and how important her father
was for these decisions.
There's a "me" in James.
Of course I took the picture while somebody else was talking. :)
Kathy Shoemaker of Rutgers in the middle.
New ideas being discussed.
No, this is not Paris. We wish. This is Cranford. In the middle between our respective offices.
NY area Regionals
October 27, 2019
While this event was not, of course, "for women only"
NJIT restarted its participation only because we were
able to send an all-women team last year....
Which led to the offer to run the event this year.
My Presentation
She's the one in the middle chair.
one all on their own, without any pushing from me, without any
help from me, and :) without any money from my budget.
Sandra Ponganthara, Nilam Rana, Krupali Patel, Mohini Desai, Yashwee Kothari, Vrushali Koli, Megan Rottkamp, Mila Boyarkina, Michelle Bautista
Christine Thomas, Pradnya Desai, Ann Rose Jose, Kavya Seelam, Emmalyn Ramos
the name is attached for those people I met for the first time.
That's one little advantage of a Zoom summit.