{"id":488,"date":"2018-12-06T06:11:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T06:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/?p=488"},"modified":"2018-12-06T06:14:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T06:14:10","slug":"grace-hopper-celebration-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/2018\/12\/06\/grace-hopper-celebration-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Hopper Celebration 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-667 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20180928_231707-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20180928_231707-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20180928_231707-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20180928_231707-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20180928_231707-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/>Early this year in September, I attended the 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration (<a href=\"https:\/\/ghc.anitab.org\/ghc-18\/\">https:\/\/ghc.anitab.org\/ghc-18\/<\/a>) in Houston, Texas. This annual conference is a celebration of women computer scientists and women in technology. I was lucky enough to attend as a student scholar, so my advice to anyone who&#8217;s interested in attending is to\u00a0<em>apply for the scholarships!\u00a0<\/em>It&#8217;s so worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, the conference consisted of amazing keynotes, meet and greets with powerful women in the industry, a hack-a-thon (we didn&#8217;t have time for this, but maybe next time!), workshops, talks, and the biggest career fair I&#8217;ve ever seen!<\/p>\n<p>Because my event was so early, I was mostly scouting out for ideas. I split my time between the career fair and attending as many talks as I could (a difficult feat, as they took place in 2 adjacent buildings and were often at the same time). I was especially inspired by the numerous talks on technology as a tool for change. I even got to chat briefly to a UX designer from the Loon project after her panel. I mentioned that I was doing a senior thesis project and asked for any advice, and she emphasized research, especially user research.<\/p>\n<p>My first thesis idea was inspired by the keynote by Jessica Matthews, but I couldn&#8217;t land on anything solid so I\u00a0 moved on to a different idea for my final. But it was still an incredible and empowering experience! I my passions lie in computing, animation and design, and there were definitely a fair share of people in all those industries. 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This annual conference is a celebration of women computer scientists and women in technology. I was lucky enough to attend as a student scholar, so my advice to anyone who&#8217;s interested in attending is to\u00a0apply for the scholarships!\u00a0It&#8217;s so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/2018\/12\/06\/grace-hopper-celebration-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grace Hopper Celebration 2018&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamuO2-7S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}