You Gotta Want It: Building Up Women in Computer Science
summary
Hacker Society collects campus data, funds flights through alumni donors, and sent nine women to Grace Hopper then expanded to 15 the next year, prompting returning attendees to run workshops, mentor peers, and blog. Tech talks become explicit beginner-friendly sessions; Saturday hands-on workshops teach git, VMs and web pages. Outreach through Facebook recruiting and role-model speakers (one previously uninvited Microsoft MVP) boosts visibility; attendance scales from under a dozen to rooms of 80+, and leadership now includes multiple women who run outreach and fundraising.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:13Finding Hacker Society
- 7:28Summer 2014 - I Go On Co-Op
- 8:10Reaching Out
- 10:52Out of Excuses
- 11:38Student Population
- 12:36Role Models - Staff
- 13:03Role Models - Speakers
- 14:32Change We Needed
- 19:12Role Models: Grace Hopper Conference
- 19:44Talk Adjustments
- 22:20Community Changes
- 23:46Social Media
- 27:37Social Events
- 28:27Hacker Society Now: #Twenty ToTexas
- 30:36Not all sunshine and daisies
- 31:26Actionable Things You Can Do
- 35:31Lesson Learned
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