Audrey St. John
Computer Science Department
Mount Holyoke College

The Challenge
Girls Who Code http://www.girlswhocode.com

The Challenge
Girls Who Code http://www.girlswhocode.com

The Challenge
Girls Who Code http://www.girlswhocode.com

At MHC
35
30
25
20
15
10
1
5 10
0
1
8
Mount Holyoke College
CS Majors & Minors (2000-2015)
5
3
3
14 14
10
4
9
5
4
2
5 minors majors
2
2
1
7
1
1
5
11
3 5
10
5
6
14
13
20

Comparables: CRA Taulbee 12-
13

At MHC
35
30
25
20
15
10
1
5 10
0
1
8
Mount Holyoke College
CS Majors & Minors (2000-2015)
5
3
3
14 14
10
4
9
5
4
2
5 minors majors
2
2
1
7
1
1
5
11
3 5
10
5
6
14
13
20

Comparables
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ACM NDC
(non-doctoral-granting departments in computing)
National: 6 female majors/year
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# majors (CS private): 27/year
Female (CS private): <22%
MHC: 15 female majors/year
O Averaged over ’13-’15
MHC has the same number of women CS majors as UMass

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Empower and Inspire
Create and highlight role models
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Thoughtful and effective mentoring
Independent/research projects
Tackle challenging material
O Innovative and active classrooms

Innovative and active classrooms: difficult material can be accessible
CS 101 cupcake lab Four College Biomath Frontiers

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O iDesign Studio: a first-year seminar
Elevator pitch
Pitch document
6 week timeline
Nikita Khan ‘17, winner at Pitch3 competition

MusicTouch & SciTrends
Eva Snyder ‘17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature
=player_embedded&v=18Ux4XpjIJA#t=78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe r_detailpage&v=yZmeDCfcjLM#t=66

The Shy Chameleon
Meaghan Sullivan ‘17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=V1uZ4nFzirc&app=desktop

research/independent projects

IHart: Interactive Hallways for attraction and retention to technology
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Virtual piano
Virtual fireworks
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Kinect hokey pokey
Floor maze
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Musical snowflakes
Spring flowers
O Clapp 2 nd floor

Robotics

CS + Math + Bio
Rittika Shamsuddin ‘12
Best Research Project
NEUCS ‘12

CS + Psychology
Shani Mensing ’15
Best Entrepreneurial Project
NEUCS ‘14

MHC CS Club
Five College GameJam
NCWIT-funded mentoring program to begin Fall ‘14
MakerJam

Since September…
Georgina Tolgos '14
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Biggest group)
6 of 11 Hackathon submissions
Placed in top 3
Google Anita Borg Memorial
Scholarship to Mina Khan ‘15
HackUMass

Hack UMass (last weekend)
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120 participants
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9 women
7 MHC
MHC won awards (3 of 4)
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Most Innovative (4 MHC)
Most Beneficial to Humanity (1 MHC)
O Most Viable Business Potential (2 MHC)

HackUMass:
Most Innovative

Beyond MHC
Graduate school
O Stanford, UW, CMU, Cornell,
Brown, UMass, …
O CS, Comp Bio & Medicine, biomechanics and neuroscience, …
Industry and internships
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Microsoft, google, amazon, NASA, startups, …
Project management, startups, software engineering, …

CS at MHC empower ~ inspire ~ impact