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Tips to Succeed
On Wednesday September 26th, Madhu Venkatesh spoke on tips on how to succeed in your career. These tips cannot not only help in your career but can also help in real life. She spoke based on an experience someone else had and that she provided the tips to. 5 Key Tips to help… Read More ›
Falling Into Tech: NonTraditional
On Thursday September 27th, I attended a session that had panelists in which spoke on how they became women in tech. The panelists consisted of Jennifer Tress, Katie Crepps, Elizabeth Lindsey, Amy Higgins, and Mandy Pet. Each panelist had their own unique stories to tell in regards on how they came into the Information Technology Industry…. Read More ›
Finding Professional Mentors and Staying in Touch
On Friday September 28th 2018, I revisited all of the booths in the career fair including those that I made professional mentors at. As an UMSL Graduate student, I can say many things on finding professional mentors as I have been working on this since my Undergraduate career. Most would not expect or want to… Read More ›
Day 2: AMD Excitement
On Thursday September 27th, I ventured back to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to see if anything new was going on and most certainly there was. When I arrived at the booth they greeted me by name and gave me a hug. It was such a great experience being able to find a company like AMD… Read More ›
Countdown to GHC
So the conference is 9 days away and I’m anxiously waiting for the experience! Since this will be my first time attending GHC I made sure to sign up for the first timer’s Orientation on Tuesday evening. I’m also really looking for to the first Keynote speech with Padmasree Warrior to kickoff a great week… Read More ›
Grace Hopper Celebration
This will be my first time going to the GHC and I am very excited to be attending! I’m looking for to the networking opportunities and meeting IT industry professionals. Hopefully this experience will allow me to gain insight on what could be my future career path.
UMSL2GHC18
We are just about to begin our Crowd Funding phase for our trip to Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Stay tuned for information about the CrowdFunding, an introduction to the students who will attend this year and, of course details of the conference. So, look for our new hashtag, #UMSL2GHC18
All Eyes on Grace Hopper !!!!!
Hello everyone , I am Gowtham majoring in Information Systems at UMSL , This is the first time i am going to attend GHC , I have heard and also followed a lot of feeds about GHC, so I am very excited to attend this conference . The first time when I heard about GHC… Read More ›
Grace Hopper Celebration, here we come!
On October 18 a group from UMSL will go to Houston to join about 16,000 other people for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. We will have 15 people representing UMSL, and that does not count the alumnae who will be there representing their employers. The planning has started. GHC is a three-day… Read More ›