January 27: Women in Tech Weekly Issue 43
We’re back with our new edition of Women in Tech Weekly, ready to inspire you once again! Super excited to share stories of these amazing women that are owning 2020 already!
Do you have some interesting stories to share as well? Then, make sure to check out the submission form below! ?
Featured Woman ??
Victoria and Vicky’s Daily Stand-up
Vicky is an awesome human being and such an inspiration! She was drawn to technology for its almost magical powers and is almost entirely self-taught. She also creates incredibly valuable content and breaks down complex concepts into digestible and easy to understand videos. To sum up: you absolutely have to follow her!
Learn about Victoria’s story here!
Celebrations ??
Bianca is celebrating her promotion to IT project manager!
In her own words:
“Besides my role as a full-stack developer, I got promoted to IT project manager which brings not only a significant change in career but also in salary.”
A post shared by Bianca | Front-end Developer (@biadev) on Jan 3, 2020 at 5:47am PST
Tierra got a CS Master’s degree @ UPenn!
In her own words:
“I studied journalism and media communication in undergrad and worked at a TV station for two years. I wanted a change, so I took a leap of faith and went all in as a graduate student!”!
A post shared by Tierra 👩🏾💻 Design && Code (@tierrabyte) on Jan 14, 2020 at 10:28am PST
Hiba is celebrating an experience to remember!
In her own words:
“On Wednesday my team, @NorcoNasaSuits got the chance to have a virtual session with Astronaut Tyler N. Hauge! We’re nearly 3 months away from our project deadline. We’re creating an augmented reality HUD for astronauts that might be used for NASA’s Artemis Mission. ????”
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7tFFp1g1vR/
Project Page:
A post shared by Norco NASA S.U.I.T.S. (@norconasasuits) on Jan 24, 2020 at 3:52am PST
Astronaut’s Page:
A post shared by NASA Astronaut Nick Hague (@astrohague) on Jan 23, 2020 at 9:44am PST
Holly got the TechWomen100 award!
This is awesome, Holly! Congratulations, girl, this is super well-deserved 🙂 And what a wonderful company you’re in there – that list of 100 badass women makes my heart smile ?
A post shared by STEM•Career•Advocacy (@herhelloworld) on Jan 20, 2020 at 11:36am PST
Marie is doing research at Johns Hopkins University!
Marie, this is incredible! We’re all so proud of you and are very excited to follow your journey into machine learning and also as a masters student at such an awesome place. Congratulations and super well done for going for your dreams!