By Andrea Delgado-Olson
We are so excited for another
Grace Hopper Celebration! NAWiC has had a phenomenal year and we can’t wait to
share it all with you today. Last week, a NAWiC member shared a blog with the
GHC Bloggers about her perspective on diversity vs. candidacy in a tech
company, and this topic may hit close to home with any woman of color in any
industry. Our community was glad that she shared her experience and desire to
work on increasing NAWiC membership to provide support for other indigenous
women.
Now I would like to share with you
another accomplishment! As indigenous languages grow closer to extinction, I am
proud to say that part of the Miwok language will survive. Through the Systers
Community, I was able to connect with Katherine Kuan, from Google, and her team
at Udacity. We all collaborated on a recent course that was released in June, The
Android Basics Multiscreen App. This course’s content is in the Miwok
language, my native language. There are four categories that provide English
word translated to Miwok, with an audio clip that plays when you click the
button. There are roughly forty words for this course. I hope some of you will
check it out! Here is the Introduction
to the course.
During the conference you can
reach out to us at our Community Booth hours on Wednesday, October 19th
and Friday, October 21st, we
will have two hour time slots on each day. We will be asking for donations for
t-shirts, $5 and $10, which will go toward a scholarship fund for indigenous
women to attend Grace Hopper next year. Here is a link to the Communities Booth
Schedule during the conference http://bit.ly/ghc16-
On Thursday, October 20th
at 2:30 pm, I will be moderating a panel on How Women Learn Computing Through
Nontraditional Curriculum and Community in room GRB 371 A-C. It will be an
interesting discussion about curriculum and support for each learning
atmosphere. Here are the bios for the panelists:
Can’t wait
to see you all (y’all) in Houston!
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