ACM-W May 2016 Newsletter

Ada’s Legacy Celebrated at ADA University in Azerbaijan The first ever ACM-W Celebration of Women in Computing in Azerbaijan was held at ADA University on 30 April. Just two days before the university was hosting the UN-sponsored International Girls in ICT Day at which visitors were puzzled by the life-size figure of a Victorian age […]

Hackathon Event for Women, HACKHER, was held on 21st April 2016 at Coimbatore.  This event was sponsored by ACM-W India and hosted by Amrita University.  The programme was conducted by GUVI, Chennai. Forty teams registered and 29 teams, of three members each, participated in the event. The event was organized in the Department of Computer […]

As the 2015-2016 academic year draws to a close, we highlight the growth of ACM-W chapters (now 133) and encourage our readership to organize an ACM-W Chapter at each individual school or help a neighboring school to charter a chapter. Great news:   There is available funding for starting new U.S.-based chapters because NCWIT has extended […]

On April 1, 2016, ACM-W, the New York Technology Council (NYTECH) and the CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development (CISDD) presented the First Annual New York City ACM-W Conference for Women Computer Science Students. The daylong event was hosted by Microsoft at the Microsoft Technology Center in Times Square, New York City, and was […]

Welcome to the May, 2016, issue of ACM-W Connections. This month we have updates from Chapters, Celebrations, ACM-W India, and ACM-W Europe.   The report from our first New York City Celebration gives an overview of the event – I was there and can attest that it was a great event with tremendous enthusiasm.  It was […]