August 2007 - uWomen

[UWAB] Women's Welcome Reception
by Whitlow,Jennifer Nicole 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Girls, Can anyone attend this event to represent the Women@CC. I cannot do either event. If so please let Giselle or myself know as well as whoever the RSVP for the event is. Thanks, Jennifer Hello again, I hope that your summer went well and that your semester is off to a great start! This email is to remind you of the Women's Resource Center's welcome reception with cheesecake for the incoming women. At the start of the summer, you expressed interest in attending to represent your group at our event. We would love it if you could still help us welcome new women to campus. If you plan to attend, please confirm your participation. We would like the following information: Organization: Contact Name: Contact Email: Number of Representatives Attending: Names of Representatives Attending: Would you like a table?: As a reminder, the dates are: *Tuesday, August 28th at 8 p.m. in Britain Rec *and *Thursday, August 30th at 8 p.m. in West Commons Basement. *Best wishes for the rest of the semester! Thanks so much. Georgia Davis Women's Resource Center www.womenscenter.gatech.edu <http://www.womenscenter.gatech.edu/>

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[UWAB] About Meeting Suggestions
by Whitlow,Jennifer Nicole 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Please make sure you give me specific meeting times that way it will be easier for me to narrow down the times to the one that fits the most schedules. Thanks, Jennifer

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[UWAB] Fall Meetings
by Whitlow,Jennifer Nicole 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Hey girls, Send me your preferred meeting times for this semester. I prefer Mondays, Tuesdays or Wednesdays after 5:00. We can do deserts again like we did last semester if yall would like. But send me your ideas and available meeting times. Jennifer

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[UWAB] Georgia Pacific Job Opportunities
by Whitlow,Jennifer Nicole 26 Aug '07

26 Aug '07

Hey guys, Georgia-Pacific is looking for inters, co-ops and part-time employees for several IT departments in the company. Please let me know if you are interested in any of them and send me your resume. I will pass it on to the correct person. GP is a great company to work for and I have throughly enjoyed my co-op experience with them over the past 2 years. Attached is the list of all the job descriptions. Jennifer

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[UWAB] Volunteer with the Girl Scouts
by Whitlow,Jennifer Nicole 26 Aug '07

26 Aug '07

Hello, We have several opportunities for you to volunteer this fall to help us introduce computing to girl scouts! We have several Dad and Me weekends coming up starting Sept 15. Dads and their daughters go camping and do a variety of activities. We help them do an activity with LEGO NXT robots (http://mindstorms.lego.com/) in one hour sessions. We usually go up Sat night and build the robots and then help with the activities on Sunday till noon. The girl scouts provides a place to sleep and meals. We reimburse you for mileage if you drive. Dad and Me (Mountain Jubilee) weekends at Misty Mountain (about 2 hours north of Georgia Tech) Dad and Me September 15, 2007 Dad and Me September 22, 2007 Dad and Me September 29, 2007 Dad and Me October 6, 2007 We have several Mom and Me weekends coming up starting Oct 6th. Moms and their daughters go camping and do a varieity of activities. We help them do activities with PicoCricket kits (an arts and crafts kit for the digital age http://www.picocricket.com/) We will probably go there Sat night and do the activities on Sunday till noon. The girl scouts provides a place to sleep and meals. We reimburse you for mileage if you drive. Mom and Me (Serendipity) weekends at Camp Merriweather (about 1.5 hours south of Georgia Tech) Mom and Me Oct 6, 2007 Mom and Me Oct 13, 2007 Mom and Me Oct 20, 2007 We have several longer workshops on Saturdays. These run from 10am to 2:00pm. 10/27/07--Crickets--at Tech 11/10/07--Robotics Basics--at Tech 12/1/07--Alice--at Girl Scout VSC (www.alice.org) 1/25/08--Robotics Basics--at Girl Scout VSC 2/9/08--Scratch--at Tech (scratch.mit.edu) 3/8/08--Alice--at Tech 3/1/08--Cricket--at Tech 4/12/08--Robotics Extreme--Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center If you can volunteer at any of these please let me or Felicia Auzla know. Her e-mail is fauzla(a)cc.gatech.edu. Thank You, Barb Ericson Director, CS Outreach College of Computing Georgia Tech

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[UWAB] Volunteer Opportunity with Barb Ericson
by Whitlow,Jennifer Nicole 18 Aug '07

18 Aug '07

Dear Students, We are looking for responsible, energetic, and friendly computing students who can help us introduce girls/women to computing using robots, arts and crafts for the digital age, and animation. We work with both the girl scouts on the weekends and with the YWCA Teen Girls in Technology program at 3 area middle schools twice a week after school. We still need people to work with the YWCA Teen Girls in Technology program. For the YWCA program we need people that can work Tues and Thurs or Tues and Wed from 4-6pm (not including travel time of about 30 min). We are introducing the girls to computing using PICO Crickets (see http://www.picocricket.com/) LEGO Mindstorms robots (see http://mindstorms.lego.com/) Alice (see http://www.alice.org) and Scratch (see http://scratch.mit.edu/) We will pay for the time it takes you to learn these kits and software, prepare materials to use with the girls, travel to the schools, and time while working with the girls. We will send teams of 2 students to each school. You don't have to go to the schools every week. The schools are: Shamrock Middle School, 3100 Mount Olive Drive, Decatur, Georgia 30033 (up I-85 North from Tech about 12 miles) Ralph Bunche Middle School, 1925 Niskey Lake Road, S.W. Atlanta, GA 30331 (I-75/I-85 South from Tech about 16 miles) Chapel Hill Middle School, 3535 Dogwood Farm Road, Decatur, Georgia 30034 (20 East to Candler Rd, right on Candler Rd go 4.6 miles, Right on Dogwood Farm about 17 miles total from Tech). You must be in good academic standing. We pay an average of $12.00 an hour. If you are interested please send Felicia Auzla fauzla(a)cc.gatech.edu a resume and at least one reference. If you would like more information please come to an information meeting. We will be holding information meetings at 10:00am and 1:00pm on Wed Aug 22nd and again at 10am and 1pm on Tues Aug 28th in room 109 of the College of Computing. Thank You, Barb Ericson Director, CS Outreach College of Computing Georgia Tech

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[UWAB] Boot-Up 2007 Help
by Jennifer Whitlow 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

Hey girls! I hope everyone is having a good summer! We look forward to having everyone back this fall and to welcome our new girls! Is anyone available to help with either the registration table or the Women@cc organization table at boot-up 20007 this year. It will be on Friday the 17th starting at 9:00. Please let me know if you are available to help with either of these areas. Thanks, Jennifer -- Jennifer Whitlow Computational Media Georgia Institute of Technology gtg160x(a)mail.gatech.edu

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