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This month’s blog post is from Michaela-Areti Zervou, who graduated from the University of Crete with a BSc and MSc specialization in Modelling and Analysis within Applied Sciences.  She is currently working on her PhD at the same university and is a Graduate Research assistant at Signal Processing Laboratory. Hello!  I am a PhD candidate […]

As a community, we embrace our diversity; diversity makes us better, stronger. We cannot do enough to applaud all of our heroes in their diversity.  They are people who are ACM members, volunteers or experts in their field.  Starting from this June, we have been talking with a number of heroes about their tech career journey, […]

This month, Eylem Erkan Isler wrote for us about the changing education.  Eylem is an English teacher at METU Development Foundation Schools. Besides teaching, she has been actively designing and running international projects on technology use, ways of increasing motivation and cultural exchange. Her main interests are creating projects with her students and colleagues that develop critical […]

This month’s blog post is from Shannon Laird from Ireland, who graduated from Letterkenny Institute of Technology. Introduction My time at womENcourage completely changed my perception of women in the field of computing. It is no secret that stereotypically, those who study or work with computers are seen as different or out of the ordinary. They […]

As a community, we embrace our diversity; diversity makes us better, stronger. We cannot do enough to applaud all of our heroes in their diversity.  They are people who are ACM members, volunteers or experts in their field.  In June, we started talking with a number of heroes about their tech career journey, about their perspective […]

This month’s blog post is from Gamze Akyol from Turkey, who graduated from Computer Engineering at Istanbul Technical University in 2019. Gamze is currently working on her MSc in artificial intelligence and robotics.   I decided to study engineering when I was in the last year of high school because I wanted my work to have […]

Our world was temporarily united in the fight against COVID-19. However, recent events, including the tragic death of George Floyd has served to highlight that for some, the battle against racism has not changed. In response to this, we would like to take a firm stand.  ACM has a clear policy against discrimination and harassment. […]

This month we’ve had the privilege of Adriana Wilde writing her experience attending BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium, which ran for the first time online due to the pandemic.  Adriana Wilde is pursuing a part-time PhD in Computer Science at the University of Southampton. Adriana is also part of the womENcourage steering and organizing committee. We thank her […]

This month’s blog post from the series ‘My Journey in Technology’ is from Burak Karabulut. He studies Computer Technology and Information Systems at Bilkent University in Turkey and is a Candidate Engineer at HAVELSAN. Burak participated in womENcourage 2019 and wrote about his experience of the event.    I study Computer Technology and Information Systems. I have […]

One of the best things about womENcourage is its unique networking opportunity with women at all levels of their career from Europe at the same location. So, given the unprecedented times we are in, and having moved a large number of our activities online, we may as well meet people online! This month, a junior bachelor […]