Monday, November 27, 2017
(L-R in the top row): Hailey Burleson, Perrin Kern, Prabha Sundaravadivel, Sundos Al Subhi, Mahzabeen Islam, Mr. David Keathly, and Dr. Armin Mikler. (L-R in the front row): Aisha Shrestha, Shraddha Piparia, Sultanah Alshammari, Harsha Gwalani, Natalie Parde, Gxara Munda, and Dhivya Chinnappa. (Katie Ouelette, Abigail Rivera, and Roxann Rivera not pictured).
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, with the support from the BRAID grant, funded 13 women students to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Orlando, Florida the week of October 4th. BRAID stands for Building, Recruiting and Inclusion for Diversity and is funded by Facebook, Google, Intel and Microsoft. In addition, Natalie Parde was sponsored by Google to attend the conference and Katie Ouelette was sponsored by QualComm to attend.