The 2022 Jean Bartik Computing Symposium was held on February 10-11, 2022 at West Point. This is the third iteration of this conference. Adina, Traci and I are so thrilled that we could put on this conference for our students. Despite all the challenges with the COVID-19 pandemic, we were so happy to have such successful and safe conference!
I am so grateful to everyone who helped plan this year’s conference, especially everyone at West Point who was part of the local planning committee this year.
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On February 27th – February 28th, 2020 the second Jean Bartik Computing Symposium (JBCS) was held at the U.S. Naval Academy. The event was co-chaired by myself, Dr. Adina Crainiceanu (U.S. Naval Academy) and Lt. Col. Traci Sarmiento (U.S. Air Force Academy). In addition to co-chairing JBCS, we are also the founding chairs of the conference.
The goal of the Jean Bartik Computing Symposium is to bring women and underrepresented minorities studying computing at the service academies with their counterparts in government and military.
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What a week! On January 31 to February 1st, West Point hosted the inaugural Jean Bartik Computing Symposium. The goal of the symposium is to bring women and minorities in computing at the service academies together with their counterparts in government. This 1.5 event is filled with mentorship, inspiration and hands-on technical workshops that prepares our students for careers in service to the Nation. Our inaugural symposium had 80 attendees, including 50 students from West Point, the U.
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