Women Involved in Software and Hardware (WISH), Google Women Techmakers and Google Development Student Club (GDSC) will host an International Women’s Day event, highlighting conversations around women in tech. The event will take place March 8 at Cal Poly’s Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL, Bldg 7) from 3 – 8 p.m.
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Experimental class exposes the lack of diversity in computer science
Walking into her Social Justice Software & C++ class (CSC 490/496), computer science senior Comal Virdi was caught off guard by the amount of diverse faces looking back at her. This unusual demographic not only struck Virdi, but introduced questions about the nature of diversity in computer science at Cal Poly, she said. This experimental […]
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Women in CENG are increasing, but still only make up 28 percent
According to Interim Dean Meagher, increasing the percentage of females in engineering is a top priority for CENG.
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Not just a man’s thing: Cal Poly lecturers bridge the coding gender gap
Looking down the string of people, Code Club SLO founder Vanessa Salas noticed she was one of very few women in line.
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Honorees show engineering is not just a man’s world
The Cal Poly Society of Women Engineers (SWE) honored five women at its “Evening With Industry” awards banquet on January 21 with the 2011 Outstanding Women in Engineering and Technology Award. This year’s honorees were Anne Beug, Sarah R. Chang, Laura Dearborn, Anna Hopper and Jennifer Hughes.