Entries by Charna

GHC15: Building Engagement

I’m so very excited for this years Grace Hopper Celebration in Houston Texas. You’d think that after attending, what 6 or 7 times, things would become routine. On the contrary, the GHC conferences are the most evolutional events I’ve ever attended. The year over year growth is a big driving factor of change in the […]

July 28, 2015 by

Why we need men at GHC

As the percentage of women in STEM fields fluctuates we have not yet reached 50%. In particular the number of women in positions of mentoring, sponsorship, and decision making roles are even lower than women entering these fields and so we have this many to one connection that becomes over stressed. We must be willing […]

October 21, 2013 by

GHC13: Asking for a raise and getting it

This talk by Matt Wallaert, Behavioral Psycologist with Bing at Microsoft, was the third in the session Lightning Talks on Career.  The session started first with Sabrina Williams from Google giving some pointers on “Nailing Your Technical Interview”, see her blog here and the wiki notes if you missed it. Then we heard from Ketki […]

October 11, 2013 by

Preparing for Grace Hopper Celebration 2013

In the past few months we’ve all been gearing up for GHC 13 with session proposals, papers and posters. Then scholarship applications and early bird registration which ends today! So what’s left? 1. Secure Funding -If you have yet to secure all of the funding you need to attend, now is the time to do […]

July 26, 2013 by

How to Edit the GHC Wiki

Will you be attending the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2012? Are you already going to be taking notes or blogging about the sessions you attend? If you answered yes to these questions then consider signing up to post your notes or blogs for the sessions you are interested in. Here’s how to […]

August 27, 2012 by

Using Twitter at #GHC12

Love tweeting? Do it at #GHC12!  New to twitter? Join now to get up to date information and connect with attendees of the conference, get live updates and answers to your questions at the conference and keep in contact with all of your new contacts after heading home. The aim of this post is to […]

August 24, 2012 by

Learning to Research, Part 4 Learning to Search, Narrow , and Visualize

A little reminder before we start. You need to have an off campus library log in to be able to search databases and catalogs for things restricted to UCF student use such as thesis and dissertation text, ebooks, and journal articles. Part 3 Continued                                                                i.      Research Methods and Data Sources – http://guides.ucf.edu/research links you […]

February 15, 2012 by

Learning to Research, Part 3 The Library Webpage

Get to know the library.ucf.edu webpage Here is a screenshot of the page If you don’t know how to find something that you know should be available make use of the ask a librarian service, look on the left hand side, half way down you see “Want Help? Ask a Librarian” here is a link […]

January 10, 2012 by

Learning to Research, Part 2 Citation Management

Ok lets get started: Setting up Citation Software, (yes you really need to do this first). UCF students currently have the benefit to choose between EndNote and RefWorks citation management software. What is the difference? Personality preference is everything when it comes to choosing. My personality was such that I have accounts with both. Choose […]

January 10, 2012 by