Summer Enrichment Program
for
Young Women Interested in Computer Science

Twenty -one girls from Bay Area high schools attended a week long program on computer science and technology on the USF campus. The program was taught by USF computer science students Cindy Zhou, Pooja Garg, and Jennifer Reyes. The students programmed robots, wrote web applications that accessed data from Amazon, took computers apart (and put them back together!) and learned how to do research on the web.

The program  featured guest speakers Ellen Spertus and Neha Nerula from Google, Lada Adamic from HP, Page Malliard from Wilson-Sonsini, Debbie Clingingsmith from Immaculate Conception Academy, Kelly Gotlib from Tyco (and a USF alum) and Stephanie Ohshita from USF's Department of Environmental Science. USF alum and Board of Trustee Teresa Win closed the session by talking about her experiences as an entrepreneur with EnCommerce.

One of the highlights of the week was a field trip to Cisco Systems, setup by Cisco's Shirley Wong.

The week-long program was organized by USF professor David Wolber and USF Alum and Board of Trustee Teresa Win.

Sponsors
This program is part of Community Connections, the public service arm of the Computer Science department at USF, and is also sponsored by the USF Women in Science group.