From bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu Fri Sep 1 10:49:22 2006 From: bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu (B A Bair) Date: Fri Sep 1 10:49:42 2006 Subject: [OCWIC] Anita Borg Institute Names Scholarship Winners Message-ID: <067501c6cdd5$d01baa80$23786ba4@cse.ohiostate.edu> :-) -----Original Message----- Anita Borg Institute Names Scholarship Winners Electronic News (08/25/06) http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA6365925.html?in dustryid=21365 The Anita Borg Institute (ABI) for Women and Technology has recognized the efforts of three women in advancing the role of women in technology and awarded them Change Agent scholarships that cover all expenses to attend the upcoming Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. The winners are Ijeoma Ihenachor of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, Claudia Medeiros, a computer science professor at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Suriya Thevar, a professor and head of the Department of Library and Information Science at Annamalai University in India. Intel has announced that it will become a full sponsor of ABI and provide funding for the Anita Borg Leadership Award, which will be announced at the conference. "Companies big and small must aggressively draw on the valuable talents and life experiences of women to compete effectively in the global high-tech industry," said Intel CTO Justin Rattner. "Our investment in ABI is but one of the steps Intel is taking to ensure diversity in our workforce that ultimately results in greater creativity and innovation." Ihenachor has been a leader of Nigeria's "Take a Daughter to Work" program, and serves as an executive member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers. In her work, Medeiros has focused on designing and developing scientific databases, and has played a leading role in more than 30 multinational research and development projects. Thevar is India's ambassador to ACM, and services as director of Annamalai's Women's Training Center in Information and Computer Technology. From bair.41 at osu.edu Fri Sep 1 19:52:11 2006 From: bair.41 at osu.edu (B A Bair) Date: Fri Sep 1 19:58:08 2006 Subject: [OCWIC] Top Ten Reasons to Attend MidWic Message-ID: <06f501c6ce21$a450d000$23786ba4@cse.ohiostate.edu> -----Original Message----- Subject: Top Ten Reasons to Attend MidWic: #5 Google and MicrosoftRepresentatives Collecting Resumes #5 Career Fair. Both Google and Microsoft are sending representatives to collect your resumes at MidWic (Google may collect ahead of time; stay tuned for that information.) The Career Fair is a repetition of an extremely popular and beneficial event at our February 2006 conference, where many attendees received email interviews, phone interviews, on-site interviews, internships and/or jobs! ************************************************************************ ** Hi, again, It's September!! Plenty of time to write a short (2-page minimum) paper before the MidWic September 15 deadline!! Suzanne and I are thrilled that several women have already submitted papers. Remember: Papers from undergraduate and graduate school women will be published in the MidWic conference proceedings, which will be distributed to all conference attendees and also distributed from the ACM-W booth at SIGCSE2007 to conference attendees. We invite submissions for two tracks: Technical papers in any area of computing and papers regarding social, ethical, educational, pedagogical, outreach, non-traditional, curricular, etc. issues of computing (especially gender issues). Use ACM guidelines (http://www.cs.potsdam.edu/sigcse07/format.shtml) to format the paper of any length in the range from 2 to 6 pages. Submit the paper through: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/midwic/papers/paper_upload.php by September 15. Papers will be lightly reviewed for content and suitability only. Our goal is to mentor young researchers and to encourage young women to gain confidence in the publication process. The top three papers in each of the two tracks will be chosen for presentation, during the conference. If you are an instructor, please encourage all of your female students to write a paper and attend our conference. If you are a student, please write a paper and urge your friends to do the same. You might co-author a paper, as well. Our call-for-participation is appended below the "top 10" list that follows. **************************Summary of old emails and the call-for-participation follow: #6 Apply for a scholarship. Google has provided 20, $200 scholarships; Microsoft, 15. ACM-W (http://www.acm.org/women/) recently announced the gift of 10 more scholarships. We have notified 5 winners (we use the terms Google Scholar, Microsoft Scholar, ACM-W Scholar), so far. There are still *40* scholarships waiting! See: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/midwic/register/scholarship.php for details and for the application protocol. Recall that the registration price (which includes food) is only $40, and hotel prices in our neighborhood are extremely reasonable * more so, if you share rooms. #7 Propose a BOF. BOFs are very informal events organized for more open discussion than occurs during a panel or paper presentation. See http://www.cs.indiana.edu/MidWic/ for more details. At our last regional conference, we had BOF topics such as: Artificial Intelligence (led by undergrad student), Women in CS Organizations, etc. See http://www.cs.indiana.edu/InWic/bofs.html for more BOF examples that will spark your imagination. #8 Consult http://www.cs.indiana.edu/midwic/ to submit a proposal for a Lightning Talk. This gives students who write papers an additional chance to give a presentation (and to have a publication too), if the paper is not one of the six "winners". We'll reserve the Lightning Talk slots for students only. #9 tells you that there is another benefit from the paper: We will choose 3 papers from each of the two tracks for presentation, during two sessions. It would be cool to be a "top 3 papers" winner in either category! There is lots of time left: Starting writing now!! #10: I want to tell you about an exciting opportunity this fall * one for which you can prepare now, during the lazy days of summer. Would you like to publish a paper? Our fall conference will feature a proceedings. We will review papers **lightly** for content and suitability. See the attached Call for Participation or http://www.cs.indiana.edu/midwic/ for details, including scholarships provided by Google and Microsoft. *************************************** Call for Participation MidWIC Great Lakes, Great Links to New Friends and New Ideas http://www.cs.indiana.edu/midwic/ Midwest Celebration of Women in Computing DePauw University Greencastle, Indiana September 29-30, 2006 Save-the-date: Midwest conference for high school, undergraduate, and graduate women in computing in Indiana and in surrounding states. We describe several ways that you may participate: 1) Papers from undergraduate and graduate school women will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be distributed to all conference attendees and to SIGCSE2007 attendees (from the ACM-W booth). We invite submissions for two tracks: Technical papers in any area of computing and papers regarding social, ethical, educational, pedagogical, outreach, non-traditional, curricular, etc. issues of computing (especially gender issues). Use ACM guidelines (http://www.cs.potsdam.edu/sigcse07/format.shtml) to format the paper of any length in the range from 2 to 6 pages. Submit the paper through: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/midwic/papers/paper_upload.php by September 15. Papers will be lightly reviewed for content and suitability only. Our goal is to mentor young researchers and to encourage young women to gain confidence in the publication process. The top three papers in each of the two tracks will be chosen for presentation, during the conference. 2) The conference will host three additional (and overlapping) opportunities for participation: a Posters session, a "Lightning Talks" (five-minute talks) session and a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session. Submit abstracts for all three through individual links on: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/midwic/participation.html Posters and lightning talks should be registered on or before September 1. Proposals for BoFs may be submitted at any time. 3) Costs for the conference will be minimal. The conference will be held in tandem with another conference, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges: Midwest (CCSC: MW). A $40 conference registration (which includes three meals, programming contest, dinner speaker and other conference events) will be collected through the Web pages for the tandem conference. (Register as a student!) Please register by September 14 ($10 additional charge for registration after September 14): http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/midwic/register/ The URL above provides directions for a second on-line registration for MidWiC itself (where Papers, Posters, Lightning Talks, BoFs, a Proceedings, and fun food are provided at no additional cost). 4) Please also consult the following page for reasonably-priced hotel reservations: http://www.ccsc.org/midwest/Conference/LodgingAndDirections.html You may further reduce costs by sharing a room. You may contact us, if you wish roommate matching service. 5) Google and Microsoft scholarships are available to help defray costs. Upon submission of receipts, scholarship awardees may claim up to $200, through the generosity of the Google and Microsoft Corporations. The scholarship application site is: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/midwic/register/scholarship.php 6) Consult the MidWIC conference Web pages, as the program and other conference details evolve: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/midwic/program.html We hope to see you in September! Suzanne Menzel (menzel@cs.indiana.edu) Gloria Townsend (gct@depauw.edu) From bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu Sun Sep 10 21:19:55 2006 From: bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu (B A Bair) Date: Sun Sep 10 21:20:02 2006 Subject: [OCWIC] MIDWIC - WRITE A PAPER; be a published author! Message-ID: <029001c6d540$63b77af0$23786ba4@cse.ohiostate.edu> Fyi. -----Original Message----- From: Gloria Townsend [mailto:gct@depauw.edu] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 3:00 PM Subject: WRITE A PAPER; be a published author! If you are a professor, please forward this to your female students! There is still time to submit a paper before this Friday's (the 15th) midnight deadline. Papers from undergraduate and graduate school women will be published in the MidWic conference proceedings, which will be distributed to all conference attendees and also distributed from the ACM-W booth at SIGCSE2007 to conference attendees. We invite submissions for two tracks: Technical papers in any area of computing and papers regarding social, ethical, educational, pedagogical, outreach, non-traditional, curricular, etc. issues of computing (especially gender issues). A six-pack of ideas . all very practical and, therefore, very useful! (No idea concerns research, b/c everyone understands that her research paper would "be about her research"!) 1) A tribute to a role model: What a specific woman did to help me; why her efforts "worked". [Instructors need to hear what works! We could use SEVERAL of these papers. Would make a cool section of the Proceedings!] 2) An open letter from a CS1 (or some other class) student to her instructors: What works and what doesn't.from the student perspective. [editorial comment: I've never read a paper with a similar theme. I think it could be awesome.] 3) An activity or two that our Women in CS organization conducted that was/were really successful. Or an activity or two that I wish our organization (if we had one??) would conduct. [very valuable for sponsors to know what students WANT!] 4) Tips for mentoring. What works and what doesn't - from the student perspective. [Have you been a mentor or been mentored? Write a paper!] 5) I'm a junior/senior: What I've learned that I'd like to tell a first-year woman, in order to help her. [similar for older grad students.] 6) My internship [or research] experience: What I learned; how I'd like to help another woman avoid pitfalls and/or tips for success. Describe the experience and give tips to younger women. [important: how did you find the internship/research project? Too many women are hesitant/lacking-in-confidence, regarding finding/conducting an internship or research experience. You advice from your perspective should help lots of young women!] Use ACM guidelines (http://www.cs.potsdam.edu/sigcse07/format.shtml) to format the paper of **any length**. Submit the paper through: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/midwic/papers/paper_upload.php **Papers will be lightly reviewed for content and suitability only.** Our goal is to mentor young researchers and to encourage young women to gain confidence in the publication process. The top three papers in each of the two tracks will be chosen for presentation, during the conference. If you are an instructor, please encourage all of your female students to write a paper and attend our conference. If you are a student, please write a paper and urge your friends to do the same. You might co-author a paper, as well. Our call-for-participation is appended below the "top 10" list that follows. ************************Summary of old emails and the call-for-participation follow: #5 Career Fair. Both Google and Microsoft are sending representatives to collect your resumes and talk with you at MidWic. (Google may collect ahead of time; stay tuned for that information.) The Career Fair is a repetition of an extremely popular and beneficial event at our February 2006 conference, where many attendees received email interviews, phone interviews, on-site interviews, internships and/or jobs! #6 Apply for a scholarship. Google has provided 20, $200 scholarships; Microsoft, 15; ACM-W, 10. (We use the terms Google Scholar, Microsoft Scholar, ACM-W Scholar). See: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/midwic/register/scholarship.php for details and for the application protocol. Recall that the registration price (which includes food) is only $40, and hotel prices in our neighborhood are extremely reasonable - more so, if you share rooms. #7 Propose a BOF. BOFs are very informal events organized for more open discussion than occurs during a panel or paper presentation. See http://www.cs.indiana.edu/MidWic/ for more details. At our last regional conference, we had BOF topics such as: Artificial Intelligence (led by undergrad student), Women in CS Organizations, etc. See http://www.cs.indiana.edu/InWic/bofs.html for more BOF examples that will spark your imagination. #8 Consult http://www.cs.indiana.edu/midwic/ to submit a proposal for a Lightning Talk. This gives students who write papers an additional chance to give a presentation (and to have a publication too), if the paper is not one of the six "winners". We'll reserve the Lightning Talk slots for students only. #9 tells you that there is another benefit from the paper: We will choose 3 papers from each of the two tracks for presentation, during two sessions. It would be cool to be a "top 3 papers" winner in either category! #10: Would you like to publish a paper? Our fall conference will feature a proceedings. We will review papers **lightly** for content and suitability. See the attached Call for Participation or http://www.cs.indiana.edu/midwic/ for details. *************************************** Call for Participation MidWIC Great Lakes, Great Links to New Friends and New Ideas http://www.cs.indiana.edu/midwic/ Midwest Celebration of Women in Computing DePauw University Greencastle, Indiana September 29-30, 2006 Save-the-date: Midwest conference for high school, undergraduate, and graduate women in computing in Indiana and in surrounding states. We describe several ways that you may participate: 1) Papers from undergraduate and graduate school women will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be distributed to all conference attendees and to SIGCSE2007 attendees (from the ACM-W booth). We invite submissions for two tracks: Technical papers in any area of computing and papers regarding social, ethical, educational, pedagogical, outreach, non-traditional, curricular, etc. issues of computing (especially gender issues). Use ACM guidelines (http://www.cs.potsdam.edu/sigcse07/format.shtml) to format the paper of any length. Submit the paper through: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/midwic/papers/paper_upload.php by September 15. Papers will be lightly reviewed for content and suitability only. Our goal is to mentor young researchers and to encourage young women to gain confidence in the publication process. The top three papers in each of the two tracks will be chosen for presentation, during the conference. 2) The conference will host three additional (and overlapping) opportunities for participation: a Posters session, a "Lightning Talks" (five-minute talks) session and a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session. Submit abstracts for all three through individual links on: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/midwic/participation.html 3) Costs for the conference will be minimal. The conference will be held in tandem with another conference, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges: Midwest (CCSC: MW). A $40 conference registration (which includes three meals, programming contest, dinner speaker and other conference events) will be collected through the Web pages for the tandem conference. (Register as a student!) Please register by September 14 ($10 additional charge for registration after September 14): http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/midwic/register/ The URL above provides directions for a second on-line registration for MidWiC itself (where Papers, Posters, Lightning Talks, BoFs, a Proceedings, and fun food are provided at no additional cost). 4) Please also consult the following page for reasonably-priced hotel reservations: http://www.ccsc.org/midwest/Conference/LodgingAndDirections.html You may further reduce costs by sharing a room. You may contact us, if you wish roommate matching service. 5) Google, ACM-W and Microsoft scholarships are available to help defray costs. Upon submission of receipts, scholarship awardees may claim up to $200, through the generosity of the Google and Microsoft Corporations. The scholarship application site is: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/midwic/register/scholarship.php 6) Consult the MidWIC conference Web pages, as the program and other conference details evolve: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/midwic/program.html We hope to see you soon! Suzanne Menzel (menzel@cs.indiana.edu) Gloria Townsend (gct@depauw.edu) From bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu Mon Sep 11 15:48:50 2006 From: bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu (B A Bair) Date: Mon Sep 11 15:48:54 2006 Subject: [OCWIC] "Prototype This" - New Television Series for DiscoveryChannel Message-ID: <037301c6d5db$4dffc640$23786ba4@cse.ohiostate.edu> Colleagues and Friends, FYI. This was routed to me via WEPAN, but I've been encouraged to share as appropriate. You should too. It would be awesome to see one of you become a role model for women in computing! :-) -----Original Message----- From: Steve Christiansen [mailto:steve_christiansen@beyond.com.au] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 12:56 AM Subject: Prototype This - new television series for Discovery Channel My name is Steve Christiansen. I am a series producer/writer working for an Australian television production company called Beyond Productions. Beyond has a long established relationship with the Discovery Network and has produced numerous television series over many years. These series include our own program 'Mythbusters' that screens very successfully in the US (and throughout the world). The purpose of my note is to ask you for some assistance. I'm casting for a new TV series and I wonder if you know anyone who might be interested in contacting me about participating on it. The show is called Prototype This, and the idea is to each week put together two inventions that might solve an everyday problem or meet some need people have. The inventions may not necessarily be the sort of things that corporations would want to manufacture, they can be prototype looking, but we want to be able to achieve a proof of concept at least with most of the builds. Martyn Ives (who will be series producing 'Prototype This') and I are assembling a team of people together to host the show. We have two already, both guys who have just finished their PhDs, one at MIT, the other at Santa Barbara. They are a robotics engineer and a mechanical engineer respectively. We're now looking for another two or three people who combine build skills and technological know how, with "blue sky" thinking and an attitude that would appeal to viewers. In particular, we need an electronics expert on board. Needless to say we are especially interested in maintaining a balance of sexes in the engineering area. We are very interested in ensuring that we have female engineers in equal numbers on the show if it is at all feasible. Discovery is hoping to skew this show to a younger audience (15 - 35) so we are looking for highly skilled engineers with building talent who are in the range of 25-35 - in particular but not exclusively, women. If it is possible for you to circulate this email to as many of your engineers as possible or if you know anyone who might fit the bill and would like to talk to me I would be delighted. Hope to hear from you. Best Steve Christiansen - Producer From bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu Wed Sep 13 21:34:13 2006 From: bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu (B A Bair) Date: Wed Sep 13 21:34:19 2006 Subject: [OCWIC] FW: Celebration of Women in Computing Conference Message-ID: <053501c6d79d$e246b5c0$23786ba4@cse.ohiostate.edu> Fyi. I will be presenting a paper about TWiCE (http://twice.cse.ohio-state.edu) at this conference. :-) Bettina -----Original Message----- DePauw to Host Midwest Celebration of Women in Computing Conference http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=18027 DePauw University is expected to draw approximately 100 women from 25 schools across the Midwest to its campus in Greencastle, Ind., for the Midwest Celebration of Women in Computing (MidWIC) conference, scheduled for Sept. 29-30, 2006. DePauw computer science professor Gloria Childress Townsend, co-organizer of MidWIC, says the event will build on the success of the Indiana Women in Computing annual conference in February, which she chaired. Sheila Castaneda, associate professor and chair of computer science at Clark College, will deliver the keynote address. The conference will have a papers program and publish conference proceedings that include copies of papers, with hopes of preparing female computer science students for the writing, reviewing, and publishing process. ACM's committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W) is a sponsor of MidWIC, and will join Microsoft and Google in providing scholarship grants. "MidWIC will connect women in computing from these diverse settings, emphasizing the importance of graduate school and remaining in the computer science field to affect the technological future where women's influence and unique perspective will be essential," says Townsend. From bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu Wed Sep 20 08:06:59 2006 From: bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu (B A Bair) Date: Wed Sep 20 08:08:57 2006 Subject: [OCWIC] National Academies Report: "Beyond Bias..." Message-ID: <055d01c6dcad$468e6d70$0202fea9@cse.ohiostate.edu> Friends -- Here is a link to the National Academies Press report entitled "Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering." http://darwin.nap.edu/books/0309100429/html I encourage you to at least read the Summary section where the findings are described and recommendations are made. Table S-1 on page 4 is especially interesting. It does a nice job of refuting myths.(http://darwin.nap.edu/books/0309100429/html/4.html) :-) Bettina Bair ~~~~~~~~~ Department of Computer Science and Engineering http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~bbair The Ohio State University email: bbair@cse.ohio-state.edu 2015 Neil Ave, DL395 tel: 614-292-2565 Columbus, Ohio 43210 fax: 614-292-2911 ~~~~~~~~ "I'm to the point where I want to throw myself at these women students, grab their ankles and say, 'No, stay. Don't go into medicine. They won't love you the way we will.' " Bettina Bair, quoted in the Columbus Dispatch, January 16, 2006 ~~~~~~~~ From bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu Thu Sep 21 08:25:27 2006 From: bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu (B A Bair) Date: Thu Sep 21 08:24:29 2006 Subject: [OCWIC] FW: Top 10 reasons to attend Midwic: Networking! Message-ID: <011001c6dd79$056711e0$23786ba4@cse.ohiostate.edu> Fyi. Check out who's going to be a MidWic, by clicking here: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/midwic/register/view.php :-) -----Original Message----- #4 Networking! Watch the Web site, as MidWic attendance grows to 100, during these last few days. Meeting even one new person may take your life in a whole new direction. One of my own students, Keke, met a Microsoft woman last February at a similar conference. Keke's now interviewing with MS. If you are a professor, please forward this to your female students! If you're a professor bringing students (who have scholarships), let's talk about 1) my being able to write one check to reimburse all expenses and 2) pooling scholarship money to be able to spread out the funding to more women. We have distributed $9000 worth of scholarships and contacted our last winner Friday. All applications from September 15 (and after) will be put on a waiting list - QUEUE. If we are able to free up some of the allocated funds, we'll start giving the good news to those in the front of the queue. If your school can pay for your students to attend MidWic, please send your school logo for our "Sponsors' Page" (to menzel@indiana.edu) ************************Summary of old emails and the call-for-participation follow: There is still time to submit a paper (**any length**) before the Monday, September 18th midnight deadline. Papers from undergraduate and graduate school women will be published in the MidWic conference proceedings, which will be distributed to all conference attendees and also distributed from the ACM-W booth at SIGCSE2007 to conference attendees. We invite submissions for two tracks: Technical papers in any area of computing and papers regarding social, ethical, educational, pedagogical, outreach, non-traditional, curricular, etc. issues of computing (especially gender issues). A six-pack of ideas . all very practical and, therefore, very useful! (None of the following ideas concerns research, b/c everyone understands that her research paper would "be about her research"!) 1) A tribute to a role model: What a specific woman did to help me; why her efforts "worked". [Instructors need to hear what works! We could use SEVERAL of these papers. Would make a cool section of the Proceedings!] 2) An open letter from a CS1 (or some other class) student to her instructors: What works and what doesn't.from the student perspective. [editorial comment: I've never read a paper with a similar theme. I think it could be awesome.] 3) An activity or two that our Women in CS organization conducted that was/were really successful. Or an activity or two that I wish our organization (if we had one??) would conduct. [very valuable for sponsors to know what students WANT!] 4) Tips for mentoring. What works and what doesn't - from the student perspective. [Have you been a mentor or been mentored? Write a paper!] 5) I'm a junior/senior: What I've learned that I'd like to tell a first-year woman, in order to help her. [similar for older grad students.] 6) My internship [or research] experience: What I learned; how I'd like to help another woman avoid pitfalls and/or tips for success. Describe the experience and give tips to younger women. [important: how did you find the internship/research project? Too many women are hesitant/lacking-in-confidence, regarding finding/conducting an internship or research experience. You advice from your perspective should help lots of young women!] Use ACM guidelines (http://www.cs.potsdam.edu/sigcse07/format.shtml) to format the paper of **any length**. Submit the paper through: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/midwic/papers/paper_upload.php **Papers will be lightly reviewed for content and suitability only.** Our goal is to mentor young researchers and to encourage young women to gain confidence in the publication process. The top three papers in each of the two tracks will be chosen for presentation, during the conference. If you are an instructor, please encourage all of your female students to write a paper and attend our conference. If you are a student, please write a paper and urge your friends to do the same. You might co-author a paper, as well. Our call-for-participation is appended below the "top 10" list that follows. #5 Career Fair. Both Google and Microsoft are sending representatives to collect your resumes and talk with you at MidWic. (Google may collect ahead of time; stay tuned for that information.) The Career Fair is a repetition of an extremely popular and beneficial event at our February 2006 conference, where many attendees received email interviews, phone interviews, on-site interviews, internships and/or jobs! #6 Apply for a scholarship. Google has provided 20, $200 scholarships; Microsoft, 15; ACM-W, 10. (We use the terms Google Scholar, Microsoft Scholar, ACM-W Scholar). See: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/midwic/register/scholarship.php for details and for the application protocol. Recall that the registration price (which includes food) is only $40, and hotel prices in our neighborhood are extremely reasonable - more so, if you share rooms. #7 Propose a BOF. BOFs are very informal events organized for more open discussion than occurs during a panel or paper presentation. See http://www.cs.indiana.edu/MidWic/ for more details. At our last regional conference, we had BOF topics such as: Artificial Intelligence (led by undergrad student), Women in CS Organizations, etc. See http://www.cs.indiana.edu/InWic/bofs.html for more BOF examples that will spark your imagination. #8 Consult http://www.cs.indiana.edu/midwic/ to submit a proposal for a Lightning Talk. This gives students who write papers an additional chance to give a presentation (and to have a publication too), if the paper is not one of the six "winners". We'll reserve the Lightning Talk slots for students only. #9 tells you that there is another benefit from the paper: We will choose 3 papers from each of the two tracks for presentation, during two sessions. It would be cool to be a "top 3 papers" winner in either category! #10: Would you like to publish a paper? Our fall conference will feature a proceedings. We will review papers **lightly** for content and suitability. See the attached Call for Participation or http://www.cs.indiana.edu/midwic/ for details. *************************************** Call for Participation MidWIC Great Lakes, Great Links to New Friends and New Ideas http://www.cs.indiana.edu/midwic/ Midwest Celebration of Women in Computing DePauw University Greencastle, Indiana September 29-30, 2006 Save-the-date: Midwest conference for high school, undergraduate, and graduate women in computing in Indiana and in surrounding states. We describe several ways that you may participate: 1) Papers from undergraduate and graduate school women will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be distributed to all conference attendees and to SIGCSE2007 attendees (from the ACM-W booth). We invite submissions for two tracks: Technical papers in any area of computing and papers regarding social, ethical, educational, pedagogical, outreach, non-traditional, curricular, etc. issues of computing (especially gender issues). Use ACM guidelines (http://www.cs.potsdam.edu/sigcse07/format.shtml) to format the paper of any length. Submit the paper through: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/midwic/papers/paper_upload.php by September 18. Papers will be lightly reviewed for content and suitability only. Our goal is to mentor young researchers and to encourage young women to gain confidence in the publication process. The top three papers in each of the two tracks will be chosen for presentation, during the conference. 2) The conference will host three additional (and overlapping) opportunities for participation: a Posters session, a "Lightning Talks" (five-minute talks) session and a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session. Submit abstracts for all three through individual links on: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/midwic/participation.html 3) Costs for the conference will be minimal. The conference will be held in tandem with another conference, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges: Midwest (CCSC: MW). A $40 conference registration (which includes three meals, programming contest, dinner speaker and other conference events) will be collected through the Web pages for the tandem conference. (Register as a student!) Please register by September 14 ($10 additional charge for registration after September 14): http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/midwic/register/ The URL above provides directions for a second on-line registration for MidWiC itself (where Papers, Posters, Lightning Talks, BoFs, a Proceedings, and fun food are provided at no additional cost). 4) Please also consult the following page for reasonably-priced hotel reservations: http://www.ccsc.org/midwest/Conference/LodgingAndDirections.html You may further reduce costs by sharing a room. You may contact us, if you wish roommate matching service. 5) Google, ACM-W and Microsoft scholarships are available to help defray costs. Upon submission of receipts, scholarship awardees may claim up to $200, through the generosity of the Google and Microsoft Corporations. The scholarship application site is: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/midwic/register/scholarship.php 6) Consult the MidWIC conference Web pages, as the program and other conference details evolve: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/midwic/program.html We hope to see you soon! Suzanne Menzel (menzel@cs.indiana.edu) Gloria Townsend (gct@depauw.edu)