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Fwd: Facilitators Needed for CUNY Hack Day for Women
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February 8, 2018 at 10:11 pm #61642Matthew K. Gold (he/him)Participant
Hi All,
Please see below
Best,
Matt
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From: Victoria Ditomasso <victoria.ditomasso@macaulay.cuny.edu>
Date: Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:12 PM
Subject: Facilitators Needed for CUNY Hack Day for Women
To:
Cc: Anna Pinkas <Anna.pinkas@gmail.com>, Kelle Cruz <kellecruz@gmail.com>Dear Tech and STEM Leaders,
My name is Victoria DiTomasso, I am a graduating senior at Hunter College
working with Profs. Kelle Cruz (Hunter) and Anna Pinkas (BMCC) to
organize *CUNY
FemSTEM Hack Day*, an interdisciplinary STEM hack day for women on *Friday,
April 27th* at the *Microsoft Technology Center in Times Square*. We are
looking to experts like you to lead hacks and assist with participant
projects, which will range from novel projects to structured,
skill-building activities. This event is supported by the CUNY Women in
Technology and Entrepreneurship in New York initiative and compensation may
be available to those who are interested in playing a leadership role in
hacking and/or organization.Our vision for this event is to provide a welcoming and supportive
environment to cis and trans women undergraduates from Hunter and BMCC who
have never participated in a hack event before. We are hoping that you can
help us identify folks from different disciplines and career stages to lead
one-day tech projects, exposing participants to the ways in which tech and
programming connect to their own non-computer science majors (Physics,
Chemistry, Biology, Math, Geography, etc.). We want to encourage activities
which will inspire participants to further their tech training and recruit
them to Computer Science classes and tech-related programs. While the event
is targeted at Hunter and BMCC students, we welcome facilitators from
anywhere, including other CUNY campuses, other academic institutions, and
industry.While this event is intended to be women-centric, male allies are welcome
as participants and facilitators. However, we ask that you particularly
encourage women and genderqueer students and colleagues to participate.We would love to have some folks lead hacks involving prototyping for
digital fabrication, Arduinos, virtual reality software, and video editing.
We are also open to any interdisciplinary hack ideas that connect computer
science to different areas of STEM, for instance, writing a computer
program to solve a discipline-specific problem that participants might be
accustomed to solving with pen and paper. We are also open to hacks which
are explicitly recruiting tools, e.g., a project which introduces the types
of things done in Hunter CSCI 127.Here is a google sheet where you can indicate interest in participating in
this event. We are not asking for a binding commitment at this time, but
rather a gauge of interest and ideas. Please indicate your name, campus,
any skills/topics you have experience with that could lend themselves to a
one-day project and/or a hack idea. In total, we aim to have about 20
facilitators for 80 student participants.We will also be sending you a save-the-date email shortly to circulate to
your Hunter and BMCC students.Feel free to email us with any questions, and please circulate this email
to anyone that might be interested. We look forward to hearing from you!Best,
Victoria, Kelle, and Anna
victoria.ditomasso@macaulay.cuny.edu, kellecruz@gmail.com,
apinkas@bmcc.cuny.edu—
Victoria DiTomasso
CUNY Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, Class of 2018
Physics & Astronomy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriaditomasso -
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