NYU's WinC, Google & Princeton's GWISE New York City Girls Computer Science and Engineering Conference 2012
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2012 Program for the Annual New York City Girls Computer Science and Engineering Conference!
 Sponsored by NYU’s WinC, Google and Princeton’s GWISE!
 Friday, May 4th, 2012, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Kimmel Center- Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th floor
60 Washington Square South
New York University, NYU

8:30 – 8:45

Registration (must be at the event by 8:45 am)

9:00 - 9:10

Welcome and Why Computer Science Matters by Sana Odeh, Clinical Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, NYU and Chair of this conference.
9:15 Welcome: Michael Overton, Chair of the Computer Science Department at NYU

9:15 - 9:35

 What is CS & Engineering?  Overview of different areas of Computer Science and engineering by students from Princeton and NYU.
Overview of CS fields:  Adriana Lopez-Alt, NYU CS PhD student.
 Overview of Engineering fields: Tracy Tsai, Princeton PhD engineering student

9:40- 10:00

Cool Talk in CS: Music and Technology

Rebecca Fiebrink, assistant professor in Computer Science and affiliated faculty in Music at Princeton University.

 

10:00 – 12:00

App Inventor workshop: Teaching high school girls to develop mobile applications.
Winning teams get prizes!
Workshop is led by the following team leaders:
NYU’s Department of Computer Science:
Aye Moe (Graduate student), Merve Keles (Graduate student), and Professor Sana Odeh
Google: Radhika Lakshmanan, Google Engineer
Princeton Engineering Department: Tracy Tsai, PhD student

12:00 – 1:00

Networking over lunch and Project Demo exhibits (1 hour):
During lunch, high school students and their teachers will have a chance to see demos of cool projects in CS and engineering, and also network with speakers and volunteers from Google, NYU, POLY, and Princeton.
Also, there will be projects exhibited as well during lunch.

1:00 - 1:30

1:35- 1:50

Deans & Professors Panel: Why Computer Science and Engineering Matter, Careers in CS and Engineering and Challenges & Solutions to a Successful and Happy College Experience.  
Valerie Barr, professor and chair of Computer Science at Union College, Schenectady, New York. She has been instrumental in getting women students interested in computing careers. She also directs the ACM-W's Scholarships for Attendance at Research Conferences program and she is also the founder of Regional Women in Computing Celebrations Project (http://women.acm.org/participate/regional.cfm)
Roxana Geambasu, assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University.
Brandi Jones, Associate Dean of Graduate Affairs at Princeton University
Nina Kang, Senior Software Engineer at Google.
Moderator: Sana Odeh, Clinical Associate Professor, Computer Science Department at NYU and Chair of this conference.

 
Cool Engineering Talk: Using Chemical Engineering to restore art by Sonia Naidu, a graduate engineering student at Princeton.
1:55- 2:25

Student Q/A Panel Presentation Part II: Challenges & Solutions to a Successful and Happy College Experience:
30 minutes
Graduate & undergraduate students from NYU, and Princeton share their personal experiences and advice (college acceptance, seeking scholarships, choosing a field that's right for you, how to find success and happiness in your college and career experience) 
Graduate and undergraduate students Q/A Panel:
Moderators: Aye Moe, Graduate student of CS at NYU and Tracy Tsai, PhD student of Electrical Engineering at Princeton.
Speakers From Undergraduates and graduate students from NYU and Princeton:
Nicole Lee, undergraduate students in CS from NYU
Rachel Rosen, undergraduate students in CS from NYU
Anna Simpson, Princeton undergraduate in CS
Hannah Zanowski, Princeton graduate student in Atmospheric and Ocean Science
Mazell Tetruashvily, Princeton MD/PHD student in neuroscience

Stephanie Goldfarb, Princeton Mechanical Engineering graduate student

 
2:30- 3:30 Tower Design Competition (60 minutes) 
Team up to build a tower using spaghetti and gum drop candy
Winning teams get prizes!
3:35 - 4:00 Close of Competition and Awarding of Prizes


We thank our sponsors Google and NYU's Courant!

 

 
Feel free to contact us if you have questions: wincgwise(AT)cs.nyu.edu or contact the conference chair, Professor Sana Odeh at (odeh(AT)courant.nyu.edu, Department of Computer Science, New York University