--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bank of America (NYSE: BAC):
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WHAT: |
National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Award for Aspirations in Computing: Thirty-five high school women from across the country to be recognized for their information technology achievements |
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WHERE: |
Bank of America Technology “Stars of the Future Showcase & |
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Awards Ceremony” |
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| Marriott City Center | ||
| 100 West Trade Street | ||
| Charlotte, NC | ||
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WHEN: |
Saturday, March 12 |
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Interviews – Winners and other participants will be available at One |
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| Bank of America Center, 150 North College Street, Charlotte, NC, | ||
| 3:30 - 6 p.m. Please contact Laura Hunter in advance to coordinate an | ||
| interview time. | ||
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Awards Ceremony – Event to be held at the Marriott City Center, |
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| 100 West Trade Street, Charlotte, NC, 7 - 9 p.m. | ||
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WHY: |
Technology is a major driver for both innovation and economic growth | |
| and U.S. Department of Labor statistics show that technology | ||
| occupations are among the fastest-growing in the U.S. However, | ||
| women currently hold only 25 percent of technology jobs and earn just | ||
| 18 percent of computing and information sciences bachelor’s degrees. | ||
| The NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing was created to | ||
| encourage the computing aspirations of young women, introduce them | ||
| to leadership opportunities and careers, and generate visibility for | ||
| women’s participation in technology fields. Bank of America has been | ||
| the award’s national sponsor for the past four years. | ||
| The showcase and awards ceremony will give each winner a behind- | ||
| the-scenes look at Bank of America’s information technology infrastructure, | ||
| opportunities to meet with the bank’s IT leaders and a | ||
| chance to see exciting new technology innovations. | ||
| The 35 young women chosen as national winners were selected for | ||
| their outstanding aptitude and interest in technology and computing, | ||
| leadership ability, academic history, and plans for post-secondary | ||
| education. | ||
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WHO: |
Some winners’ profiles: | |
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Ayesha Bose of Francis Parker School loves artificial intelligence. |
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| She spent last summer at MIT, programming a vision system for the | ||
| AMOUR VI Underwater Robot, which resulted in her semifinalist status | ||
| in the 2011 Siemens Competition. | ||
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Beth Hadley of Northville High School has been competing on robotics |
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| teams since the sixth grade and has shared her passion by organizing | ||
| and teaching at robotics camps. She loves physics and hopes one day | ||
| to work on the Large Hadron Collider. | ||
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Daria Jordan of Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology |
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| started her school's first all-female robotics team, | ||
| RoboChic. An interest in biomedical engineering led her to an | ||
| internship at Spelman College, where she has been programming an | ||
| exercising humanoid robot as an intervention method for the childhood | ||
| obesity epidemic. | ||
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Ivanna Gutierrez of Phillip O. Berry High School spent a summer |
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| internship fixing over 200 computers and configuring her school's | ||
| computer network. She plans to attend UNC Charlotte and to major in | ||
| computer science and hopes to become a video game designer. | ||
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Rebia Khan wants to use technology to improve the lives of others. |
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| She has built a website for homeless youth and case managers that | ||
| aggregates data about resources in Arizona, developed a solar power | ||
| system for a girls' school in a rural village in Bangladesh, and coded | ||
| programs to analyze data about neural pathways. | ||
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