ACM-W June 2018 Newsletter

Welcome to our new chapter at North Virginia Community College (NVCC). Please join our Facebook page and keep us up to date on chapter activities! We are delighted to announce that the winner of our Best Officer Contest is Sukriti Paul who founded the ACM-W student chapter at Manipal IT. We are also happy to […]

We are pleased to announce the formation of the Toledo ACM-W Professional Chapter.  This northwest Ohio chapter was chartered on May 21st and has already started partnering with the ACM-W student chapters at University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University and with area IT businesses leaders. Chair Janell Vickers (Mercy Health) explained that the […]

Computing for All, an ACM-W Celebration The third edition of Informatics for All celebrations was celebrated in April 2018. It was held in La Nave, Madrid, and this year it was a two-day event. On the first day of the event, there was a career fair and a workshop about quality, diversity and expectations of […]

Regular readers of this newsletter are aware that ACM/ACM-W are partnering in the project A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It.  This multi-year project has three primary goals: This past week, Reyyan Ayfer (ACM-W Vice-Chair) and I had the privilege of […]

We are happy to announce the winner of our best Facebook post contest is the ACM-W Chapter at the University of Central Florida. This chapter designed a team-building exercise that sounds like loads of fun: a CS-themed escape room!  Watch our web page for more details on how you can develop an escape room for your […]

Congratulations to Sukriti Paul from Manipal University, Manipal, India, for winning our best officer contest for 2018!