{"id":500,"date":"2015-04-01T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=500"},"modified":"2015-04-02T13:44:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T17:44:55","slug":"4th-annual-aspirations-in-computing-awards-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2015\/04\/01\/4th-annual-aspirations-in-computing-awards-event\/","title":{"rendered":"4th Annual Aspirations in Computing Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Center for Women In Technology (NCWIT) Award for Aspirations in Computing honors young women at the high-school level for their computing-related achievements and interests.\u00a0 Winners are selected for their computing and IT aptitude, leadership ability, academic history, and plans for post-secondary education.\u00a0 NCWIT has local and national affiliates.\u00a0 The CS department continues to support this and other diversity efforts designed to identify and recruit women into the field.\u00a0 Dr. Barbara G. Ryder (Department Computer Science &#8211; Head) and Libby Bradford (CS Director of Undergraduate Studies) chair the Virginia and Washington, DC affiliate and manage the annual awards ceremony.\u00a0 Microsoft hosted the event this year where twenty high school students were recognized.\u00a0 The event was sponsored by Bank of America, Eastman Chemical Company, Microsoft, NetApp, Northrop Grunman, SWIFT and Virginia Tech.\u00a0 Dr. Barbara G. Ryder said, \u201cWe are truly honored to recognize these outstanding young women from across Virginia and the District for their achievements in computing and leadership.\u00a0 They are pacesetters and set an example that girls may accomplish great things in the technology field\u201d.\u00a0 To view a full list of winners and learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspirations.org\/participate\/connect-locally?term_node_tid_depth=6574\">NCWIT visit here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/NCWIT-Aspirations-Award-Dinner-on-March-21-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-501\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/NCWIT-Aspirations-Award-Dinner-on-March-21-2015-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"NCWIT Aspirations Award Dinner on March 21, 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/NCWIT-Aspirations-Award-Dinner-on-March-21-2015-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/NCWIT-Aspirations-Award-Dinner-on-March-21-2015-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Center for Women In Technology (NCWIT) Award for Aspirations in Computing honors young women at the high-school level for their computing-related achievements and interests.\u00a0 Winners are selected for their computing and IT aptitude, leadership ability, academic history, and plans for post-secondary education.\u00a0 NCWIT has local and national affiliates.\u00a0 The CS department continues to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}