Women@CC EOY Event
No, it is not to early to put up a Christmas tree, play Christmas music, have a pot luck, and play Secret Santa. I <3 my Women@CC girls!!!
PHANTASMA 2009!!!
As the Women@CC Chair, I may be a little biased, but Phantasma was amazing!! It may have been one of the best CoC student organizations events this semester. So many people came, everyone seemed to be getting really involved with the contests and games and seemed to be having fun.
It started to rain, so we had to resort to our rain location in the Klaus Atrium. This was actually our first choice of location, but because there was another event that didn’t end until 3p, we out it down as a back-up. It’s a good thing we did because we couldn’t have had the entire event outside. We only had an hour to set up, but so many people came to help out. It all pulled together really well.
We had so many pther participating student organizations. The face painting and caricatures was sponsored by Gourd, the Chubby Bunny food eating contest sponsored by UPE, the FIREwall did Musical Chairs, M@CC did the Trick or Treat Roulette game, and SAB and CISCO brought Trivia. When I took the position of Women@CC Chair, one of my main goals was to bring the student organizations more together to bring more people together. This event makes me happy ^_^.
There were so many events, contests, and interesting people at Phantasma this year… I took over 90 pictures! To see more of my pictures, feel free to visit my Picasa page at http://picasaweb.google.com/touching.the.sky/20091030Phantasma?feat=directlink.
WOMEN@CC PHANTASMA!!
Need a break from your classes? Procrastinating on homework anyway?
Come take a break with the College of Computing Student Organizations at the Women@CC’s annual Fall Festival event, Phantasma! This year, we’re even partnering up with SAB’s Trivia Night to bring in even more fun!
Come join us for FREE food, cool prizes, pumpkin carving contest, food eating contest, caricatures, the dance-floor, face-painting, music, our sweets making station (caramel apples, chocolate, white chocolate, fruit…), pizza, cotton candy, trivia, and so much more! Wear a costume or bring a pie to automatically be entered to win the costume contest or pie baking contest to be judged by the faculty and staff.
DATE: Friday, October 30, 2009
TIME: 4:00p- 7:00p
WHERE: Courtyard between Howey and Sustainable Education Building
RAIN LOCATION: Klaus Atrium
We hope to see you there!
CoC at GT Homecoming 2009
Photos courtesy of Michael Slaughter
Georgia Tech Official Homecoming 09 Website: http://homecoming.gatech.edu/
Our Homecoming Display! The guys did such a great job putting this together. They worked from 8:00p until almost 4 in the morning (event rules only gives them from 8:00p – 10:00am to work on it), and have some adorably awesome displays to show for their hard work. Also, you may not be able to see it from these pictures, but there’s a picture of our interim CoC Dean Foley on the side of the train. He’s known for loving trains ^_^.
Two of our guys participated in the Clown Relay where they not only had to wear clown suits (shoes, nose, and all), but go through obstacles and do challenges such as hoola hooping, juggling, jump-roping and more. (Second pic = me happy for homecoming ^_^)
We won our division of The Great Clown Car Act!! One team we watched fit almost 20 girls in their 6ft x 4ft x 4ft box! At least they weren’t in our division 
! We fit 12 with plenty of room to spare, but not enough volunteers. However, the ones that did participate were wonderful and got in with amazing quickness so that we took home 1st place in our category!
GT Team Buzz 2009
Some of the lovely ladies of Women@CC participated in Team Buzz this year! An annual Georgia Tech wide volunteer project for the city of Atlanta, Team Buzz is a great opportunity to get together with the rest of the college to give back to the city of Atlanta. Almost 2000 Georgia Tech students participated in the event this year!
This year, the College of Computing Women@CC had eight volunteers: Pushkara Chaganti, Ka Young Kim, Sravya Kotte, Ugochi Ofoha, Candis Pham, Madhuri Tondepu, Haritha Viravalli, and Yonnie Yang. We participated in the Eastlake project cleaning a public park, pulling weeds, and mulching. It was a lot of fun and residents of Atlanta even came out of their nearby stores to thank us ^_^.
Home Sweet Home- Back to Atlanta
We’re going home! GHC, as usual, was absolutely amazing. I love all the new people you meet and stories you hear, the sessions you go to and and things that you learn. I love all the new places you get to go to, companies you get to talk to, and stuff you get to take back home with you (physically as well as mentally, haha). I love all the relationships you build and wonderful Women@CC members that you get to bond with while on the trip 
. But as fun as it was, I’m happy to be going back home to Atlanta and my sweetheart.
Although, next year, the GHC will be in Atlanta! The preview video shown as the last keynote made Atlanta look amaaazing (I really wanted to post the video on here… it was that awesome… but I can’t seem to find it). It makes me want to visit places in Atlanta that I didn’t want to go to before! lol. jk jk. I’m a little bummed we don’t get to travel anywhere new next year, but I’m SUPER excited we get to send a lot more Women@CC members to the conference! Whoo hoo!
Hiking Through the Desert
Yay for hiking through the desert! lol. It was a lot of fun and I wish we could have stayed longer. So it wasn’t actually “hiking through the desert” like you’d think in movies with dunes of sand. There actually wasn’t any sand at all. We were in Tucson, Arizona. It was strangely breathtakingly beautiful. 
The sun was in the perfect spot that day. When I was little, I wanted to be a professional photographer, but after getting a little older and realizing that that wasn’t really a practical career path, I settle for just enjoying the little moments I get to be artsy and take in the view .
There was so much cacti! And they were so big!! I had always thought cacti that big was rare and was only really seen in the movies. They were everywhere! It was amazing.
Yeah, so I really wanted to touch a cactus needle, lol. … it really was just like a sewing needle… smooth and long, but really really sharp on the end . Fun stuff. Also, apparently it only rains in Arizona a couple of weeks out of the year. It looked like rain on the last day we were there. I’m not sure whether to be flattered or bummed with our bad luck X_x, lol.
Grace Hopper Conference Day #3
I absolutely love this conference. This is the third year I’ve attended and it’s just great. It’s always full of amazing people all with crazy experiences and stories. For example one of our keynote speakers was just indited as a Dame! There’s plenty of great advice for both your social life and your professional life. Not to mention, there’s always lots of corporate companies with job opportunities and SWAG! lol
The STARR Hotel and Spa is amazing. We’re staying in Doubletree, which is also amazing (they give you so much complimentary stuff including facewash, sunscreen, toothpaste… FREE freshly baked chocolate chip cookies), but Doubletree didn’t have the amazing view and pool area that STARR did.
Cacti are so amazingly entertaining. I never would have thought I would enjoy them so much. I guess it’s just the new experience or something, but Arizona is so cool! … and the dry air actually does wonders for my complexion and hair (as opposed to the overbearing humidity of Atlanta).
Grace Hopper Conference Day #2
Arizona is very uniquely beautiful. I’ve always loved the mountains. I grew up in the Ozarks (more hills than mountains, but that was before I knew any better ) and have always loved the green grass, colorful flowers, blue skies, and freckled nights of the natural state. Atlanta didn’t really have any of that. Don’t get me wrong. I love the resources and opportunities given by living in Atlanta, but I do miss the quiet peacefulness sometimes. When I finally came across some real mountains when going home with John, I think I fell in love with it. The Appalachian mountains are amazing and I really hope John and I can find jobs close by to where he grew up. You can take the small tow girl out of the small town, but you can’t completely take the small town out of the small town girl .
Pictured above to the left is just one day’s worth of swag ^_^ lol. Swag is definitely a fun perk of going to conferences. While the amazing experiences and opportunities offered at the GHC are definitely the main reason to go to conferences, free stuff is always a nice plus.
Grace Hopper Conference Day #1
The Plane Ride
Mental note to self: make sure to charge laptop before the 4 hour flight I plan to do work on. I could have swore I charged it last night, but I guess I forgot. I did go to bed really late… so I guess it could have just slipped my mind. It’s actually really weird sitting in between 4 different people, three of which are on a laptop… and I’m the computing major . These people are exceptionally interesting though… talked to each of them for a little while (it was a really long flight)… so I guess this is a special case. There’s teh fashion designer for Los Angelas in her long red dress watching a romantic comedy about a couple of dog lovers. There’s the middle aged guy just coming back from his first high school reunion playing solitaire. There’s the nice old couple from Mexico, the husband frantically typing away on some sort of proposal. Then there’s me.. my pen on paper, throwing words on a page because I don’t really know what else to do. I feel so lost without my computer, lol.
