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October 4, 2012 · 9:13 pm

Successful Panel at Grace Hopper Celebration

Our Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing panel called “Technical Women in the Arab Region: Challenges vs. Aspirations” was well attended and successful. The audience wanted to ask questions and talk far beyond the limits of the time available. My daughter Jessica took pictures for us.

It took months of preparation to make this happen – not only the preparation of the conference submission but applying for and getting four travel scholarships and visas for travel from the Middle East and North Africa. Many of the 2012 TechWomen mentors and mentees attended to see the only presentation from the first TechWomen class. I think they loved it. Everyone wanted to be in the picture at the end.

10/22/2012: Read Larissa’s Review of this panel.

Images Copyright 2012 by Jessica Dickinson Goodman and Katy Dickinson
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October 3, 2012 · 6:53 pm

TechWomen 2011 and 2012 Meet

After travel adventures on their way here from California, the forty-one 2012 TechWomen emerging leaders arrived at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference in Baltimore and met three representatives of the 2011 TechWomen for the first time. We mentors and the Anita Borg Institute staff waited, talking with friends, checking out the poster session, and guarding the 2012 mentees’ box dinners. My daughter Jessica arrived from Washington DC and presented her poster (“Using the Technology to Lower the Cost of Being a Woman”). A fun evening and a good start to a great conference!

Images Copyright 2012 by Katy Dickinson
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October 3, 2012 · 3:03 pm

Technical Women in the Arab Region: Challenges vs. Aspirations

I am at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Baltimore, Maryland. GHC12 is sold out for the third year running, with 3,600 amazing technical women (and a few men) participating from all over the world. I attended the Anita Borg Institute Advisory Board meeting this morning (presenting an update on the work of the Famous Women in Computer Science team). Tonight, I get to see my daughter Jessica Dickinson Goodman present her poster called “Using the Technology to Lower the Cost of Being a Woman”.

Tomorrow, I am moderating a panel called “Technical Women in the Arab Region: Challenges vs. Aspirations” featuring four TechWomen mentees from the original class in 2011: Hania Gati (Algeria), Maysoun Ibrahim (Palestine), Reham Nasser (Egypt), and Sukaina Al Nasrawi (Lebanon). Ours was the only 2011 TechWomen presentation accepted for GHC12 – we are very proud to represent our sisters! Maysoun, Reham, and Sukaina are already here (Hania arrives tonight). We met this afternoon to discuss how we would manage tomorrow’s panel. The 2012 TechWomen will arrive from California in time to attend tonight’s poster session. I am very much looking forward to introducing my 2012 mentee to my friends from the 2011 TechWomen program and to my daughter.

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August 19, 2012 · 11:45 pm

Favorite Granites

One of my favorite rocks is granite, of which there is a large amount in my home state of California. My favorite individual granite stones are those which show more than one pattern or color – indicating that the rock underwent a complex formation process. Dikes cutting through a stone are more interesting to me than rocks of homogeneous color or texture. One of my most enjoyable experiences at family camp last week was sharing individual stones with my daughter Jessica. She has always been fond of rocks but since she took a geology class at CMU during her last year, Jessica is even more enthusiastic and knowledgeable.

Camping at the Lair of the Golden Bear

Yesterday, we got back from our annual family camping trip at the U.C. Berkeley Alumni Association’s Lair of the Golden Bear near Pinecrest, California. We had 19 people in four tents, with 8 in just ours. As usual, we had an enjoyable and relaxing time. The car is unpacked and stuff is mostly put away but I am still working my way through the laundry. I have finished the towels and bedding and most of the clothes. I still need to wash the sleeping bags.

Some of the highlights of our week in the Sierras:

Hiking to the Natural Bridges swim-through cave. The air was so hot and the water was so cold! Carrying my camera in a zip bag to take pictures from the deep pool was tricky.
Seeing an eagle pulling big fish from the Pinecrest Lake right near the swimmers and boaters. One of the Pinecrest summer residents said it was a bald eagle but it may have been an osprey (fish eagle).
Watching a white headed woodpecker eating his way from pine to pine.
Walking along the creek (Tuolumne River, North Fork), looking for wild flowers, animals, insects, and pretty stones.
Watching the sunset from the Trail of the Gargoyles, in the Stanislaus National Forest. We could see Mount Diablo (a 3,864 feet or 1,178 meter peak in the San Francisco Bay Area) in the far distance.
Hanging out with family and friends.

This was the first time we have been camping since my father died – he loved the mountains. We stopped at Railtown 1897 in Jamestown on the drive home yesterday to collect more caboose pictures – see my Caboose Sisters Pinterest page for the whole collection. I also put up a Camp Blue Pinterest page with more images from our camping week.

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July 7, 2012 · 10:52 pm

Paul’s Elements (New Blog)

As of today, my son Paul has his own blog: http://paulselement.wordpress.com/. “Paul’s Element” will mostly be used to develop his college art portfolio. I created the blog on WordPress, with technical advice from John and Jessica and design decisions by Paul.

Paul just finished his second year at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California. He plans to earn his Associate degree at Foothill and then go to a full-time art college for the rest of his Bachelor studies. Mostly Paul has been working in ceramics (wheel and hand building) and drawing (charcoal, watercolor, and electronic). I have been taking pictures of Paul’s art work all along – now we have a place to show it off!

Ball Dog

Gilroy is our 2-year-old shepherd-corgi mix (shepherd on the top, corgi on the bottom) who is obsessed with toys, especially balls. He has several tricks:

Fetch – throw almost anything and he will bring it back
Hammock Bounce – throw a toy onto the hammock and he will bounce it off from below
Gate Toss – stand outside a gate and he will throw his toy through then silently stare meaningfully until you throw it back

My daughter wrote a blog entry last year with a YouTube video of Gilroy bouncing a red rubber bone off of the hammock. Our other dog (a large but very shy collie-pit) has no interest in toys but she will crawl into your lap any time for a cuddle. Both are rescue dogs – adopted after their first families abandoned them.

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