Many college women pursuing coursework in computer science and engineering speak to feelings of isolation and having to ‘go it alone’. They often feel uncomfortable in classroom settings where faculty members do not look like them. In these same classrooms, men often outnumber women, and even when the gap narrows men may dominate the conversations … Continued

I recently completed a summer job where I was a teaching assistant for a rigorous coding bootcamp. Young middle school and high school girls with no prior computer science experience were taught how to create web applications. As you can imagine, it was extremely challenging. Even with amazing computer science teachers it would have been … Continued

There is a famous idiom, “Third time’s the charm”.  And I believe in that. In the Spring of 2018 semester, I took CSC 171: Introduction to Computer Science. I remembered how excited and, at the same time, nervous I was when I first sat in this big lecture hall in the Hutchison building. I loved … Continued