2019 Anita Borg Systers Pass It On Award Winner
Project: Erase All Kittens
Erase All Kittens is a web-based platform game that teaches children (aged 8-14) real programming languages. By developing interest in technology early, this project can provide a new way to help close the gender gap.
2019 Anita Borg Systers Pass It On Award Winner
Project: Elsa
Elsa is an open-source conversational agent to help treat depression. It runs CBT questionnaires in the form of a chatbot interaction, gathers data from the user, and determine the type of depression the user may have.
2019 Anita Borg Systers Pass It On Award Winner
Project: Fabric-based Computing
Anna's dissertation addresses the computational concepts used with weaving and sewing; how youth engage these concepts while crafting; and which computational processes materialize.
2019 Anita Borg Systers Pass It On Award Winner
Women in Construction Technology Skills Empowerment Project
The Women in Construction Technology Skills Empowerment Project aims to empower young girls in secondary school by training them on Computer Aided Design.
2019 Anita Borg Systers Pass It On Award Winner
Empowering Women with Supercomputers
The project aims to create all-female HPC classes at Université Laval Calcul Québec, and to become a member of Women In HPC, an organization that promotes access to supercomputers to women around the world.
2019 Anita Borg Systers Pass It On Award Winner
Project: Practical IoT Course for Young Women
Students will develop technological solutions as well as learn basic concepts of electronics, computer programming, and mobile application development.
