Welcome: Tracy Camp (General Chair) and Telle Whitney (ABI)

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Tracy Camp

Telle Whitney

The speakers have expressed their excitement about the numbers of attendees and extended their warm welcome to everyone. Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is marking it's 10 year anniversary this year and it has been a growing success thanks to the organizers at the ABI and all other supporters and industrial and academic partners contributing to the growth of the venture.

How many people? Closed at 2000 but then the calls came in. They suggested they not drink or eat anything during the whole celebration....

Introduce Dr. Telle Whitney you need to know her!

Exercise? Runner

Creative? Jewelry

Technical? PhD from Cal Tech

Cofounder GHC

President of ABI

964 Students.

Partners to thank, each one of these organizations has made a commitment to ABI and these companies are worth working with.

100 k-12 CS teachers to the conference and workshop

New effort CS Education League, early december over grace hoppers bday. CSEWeek is a new effort. They want our help! (There is a flyer in your packet to get involved!)

A new public private partnership the tech women will bring 38 women to the US for technical mentorships in silicon valley. More about it coming.

Imagine you are 12 years old andyou move to a new country with only clothes on your back. Keynote today can imagine this this was her life a few decades ago. Would you have the drive to work hard enough to learn the language graduate from highschool at 16 as valedictorin at 16? Then she earned bachelors from boston, then masters from ___. Holds 23 patents 7 pending applications...She became the first women fellow at TI and only in 80 yr history.