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BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium 2021 - officially open for submission of abstracts. We're hosting it, online, at Lancaster University. Quack🦆

Women students of computing 👩‍🎓💻, come to our conference! We have prizes in the categories: 1⃣ Foundation/1st year 2⃣ 2nd year (inc industrial year) 3⃣ Finalist 4⃣ MSc Abstract deadline is 29th Jan. Conference 30th March, online. Full details here: bcswomenlovelace.bcs.org/?page_id=92

UK computing lecturers: if you are running sessions to help encourage your students to apply to the @bcswomen Lovelace Colloquium (abstract deadline 29th Jan) you might like to download and amend our slides:

Vote for Lorraine and her amazing speech to text LED face mask please :-) 😷👀

Very pleased to announce another speaker: super maker extraordinaire Lorraine Underwood PhD student at Lancaster University, Video Content Creator for element14 Electronics Author of Save the World with Code amazon.co.uk/Save-World-Cod… lorraine.mcunderwood.org

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Excellent number of submissions, everything considered! We look forward to welcoming everyone virtually to SCC Lancaster!

Computing and Communications SCC Lancaster Science & Technology at Lancaster is to host the 14th Lovelace Colloquium 2021 run by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT to encourage more women to enter Computing and related areas. lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancaster…

Someone suggested that our lovely new logo would look good on a hoodie. So now you can get 8bit Ada on a hoodie (or a t-shirt, or a water bottle, or...) redbubble.com/shop/ap/719084… Our super design is by Alexandra Stanhope and she's happy with us putting it on all sorts of things :)

We've also set up the Lancaster Duck by Lucy Hunt redbubble.com/shop/ap/719079… if you prefer your subtle @bcswomen BCSWomen Lovelace merch more duck-themed.

Can't dance, can code!

We did a thing, on the first sunny unlockdown weekend. Wahhh. But now we've submitted, hurrah! Bring on the next :-)

Starlings starting to murmur in Arnside, before heading to Leighton Moss (need a better camera on a clearer day!) #WinterWatchlist

Two (2) weeks to go to the @BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium abstract deadline. Undergrad and MSc women in computing, send us your abstracts! bcswomenlovelace.bcs.org/?page_id=92 We want 250 words on a computing topic of your choice, and the finalists get to present in an online poster contest

Let’s pretend every city/town in Britain is a guest at a party. What is each one doing at the party?

New on the map: Aston, Keele. Total unis 32 (so far), deadline midnight: bcswomenlovelace.bcs.org/?page_id=92

It's two weeks to go to the @bcswomen Lovelace Colloquium at Sheffield Comp Sci and to say we're excited is... entirely accurate. This will be our first in-person event since 2019! We've also sold out for the first time in our history.

Super proud of Lucy Hunt (Lucy Hunt) for defending her PhD on the fascinating topic of Whistleblowing in Software Engineering. Thanks to excellent examiners Klaas-Jan Stol @kjstol.bsky.social and Adrian Friday, and to Phil Benachour for chairing. 📸Lucy with supervisor Tracy Hall and examiners