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Later in junior year I received the Technology, Maureen Fan CEO and co-
prestigious Grace Hopper Conference founder of Baobab Studios, Mary Spio
scholarship which was to attend GHC17 CEO and President of CEEK VR INC were
held in Orlando, Florida, USA. I was an very inspiring. I got to interact with
International Scholar sponsored by Megan Smith, former VP of GoogleX and
Apple Inc. and AnitaB.org Institute. first female CTO of the United States, Xin
Later in the same month I represented Zhao Support Engineer at Amazon Web
Sigmah organisation at GSoC Mentor Services and many wonderful women in
Summit in San Francisco. computing, got to hear and share
Recently, I was a mentor to ‘Learn IT, Girl’ experiences, attended technical
and Google Code-In programs in 2017. presentations, poster sessions,
I’m also a Google-Udacity Developers workshops, etc. It was the opportunity to
Scholarship recipient. meet your role models live. During GHC,
Apart from this, I also serve as Open I also got to interact with Director of
Source Track Committee member, I’m Walmart labs which further led to a
p a r t o f C o u r s e ra O p e n S o u rc e wonderful opportunity: job offer from
Community and Systers, Developer Walmart. Overall it was an amazing
member of Fossasia, IEEE Women in experience.
Tech CybrosX Member and tgMember
contributor. Google Mentor Summit was held in
October, at Tech Corners, Google Head
Q.2 - Please share your experience as Quarters, Mountain View, California,
an International Scholar at Grace USA. Flight landed in San Francisco, took
Hopper Conference and a delegate at cab for hotel and while driving to hotel
GSoC Mentor Summit the sight to ever innovative Silicon Valley
was spectacular and breathtaking. The
Ans: Grace Hopper conference was an summit had unconference format which
extremely incredible experience that will I experienced for the first time. Various
have an everlasting impact on me. people from different open source
Keynotes by Melinda Gates co-chair of organizations like Wikimedia, Linux,
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Mozilla, Drupal, Haiku, Python, Zulip,
Fei-Fei Li Professor and Director of Apache, etc were there. Many different
Stanford University’s AI Lab, and the sessions, lightning talks were held, all
Chief Scientist at Google Cloud AI/ML, topics revolved around open source. I
Debbie Sterling the Founder and CEO of was the youngest delegate at the
GoldieBlox, Dr. Ayanna Howard Summit. It was an enriching and fun
professor and the Linda J. and Mark C. experience.
Smith Endowed Chair in Bioengineering
in the School of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the Georgia Institute of
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