CWIT -Center for Women In Technology

Today, we wrapped up year three of CWIT's partnership with Building STEPS for their summer math tutoring program! CWIT-affiliated students and other volunteers worked with high school students from several Baltimore City high schools to help them improve their math skills as one way to prepare for their future college careers.

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the end-of-year picnic today! It was a beautiful day and so much fun!

It's Field Trip Friday! Some of our Cyber Scholars and Affiliates got to check out the National Cryptologic Museum today. Interesting stuff!

Congratulations to CWIT Scholar Catherine Wraback (second from left) and the whole ChemE Jeopardy team on their recent win!

Congratulations to UMBC's ChemE Jeopardy team on their victory at this past weekend's ChemE Jeopardy Competition Finals at the 2022 AIChE Annual Student Conference! From left to right- Max Bobbin '23, Colin Jones '25, Catherine Wraback '23, Neha Raikar (team advisor and coach), and Pavan Umashankar '24.

Today is International Women in Engineering Day and we encourage you to check out this article that CWIT's Associate Director, Dr. Danyelle Ireland, has written. She shares some facts about the underrepresentation of women in engineering fields, as well as strategies that the Center for Women in Technology (CWIT) at UMBC and similar programs at other universities are using to help create positive change in this area.

Only about 1 in 5 engineering degrees go to women A negative environment dissuades many women engineering students from staying in the field. Can colleges and universities do anything to reverse the trend?

Congrats to Cyber Scholar Kaitlyn Keaton for being UMBC's first Fulbright recipient in the UK! She will spend the next year earning her master's degree in cybersecurity at Newcastle University. We're proud of you, Kaitlyn!

UMBC’s 2022 Fulbright Student Scholars Will Travel The World To Explore Difficult Questions - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County Nine recent UMBC graduates and alumni will soon travel to the UK, El Salvador, Kuwait, France, Colombia, Taiwan, South Korea, and Germany as 2022 Fulbright U.S. Student scholars. They include emerging leaders in education, astrophysics, cybersecurity, human rights, and more, and they are excited to....

It's Study Day here at UMBC, which means Commencement is only about a week away. We are so proud of all our CWIT, Cyber, and T-SITE May grads and excited to keep in touch to see all that they will do in the future. Check out this feature on one of our May grads, Priscila de Almeida Feitosa, a current Cyber Scholar.

Challenging The Status Quo And Inspiring Young Women In Tech - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County As a Cybersecurity and Center for Women in Technology Scholar from São Paulo, Brazil, Priscila de Almeida Feitosa ’22, computer science, found like-minded classmates at UMBC—students who wanted to change the status quo of representation in technology fields.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the CWIT end of year picnic today! We were thrilled to host this great event again today after a two year hiatus due to the pandemic.

Thank you! As of this morning, CWIT has received more than $2,000 from twelve donors as part of the ! We can't wait to utilize these generous donations in support of our mission and students. If anyone else would like to participate in Giving Day (and a half), it continues until 9pm today. You can donate to CWIT directly by using this link:

Giving Day 2022 You may be able to double or triple your gift through your employer’s matching gift program. Click the link below to see if your employer can match your contribution.

UMBC's Black & Gold Rush has begun! Between now and 9:00 PM tomorrow, February 17, the goal is for 3,000 donors to support any programs or entities at the university with gifts of any size. If you would like to support CWIT as part of this event, you can reach us directly by using this link: https://bit.ly/CWIT22