Media

February 3rd, 2012 - Coffee Chat with Cate Huston, Software Engineer @ Google – Girls in Tech, Toronto.

May 13th, 2011 – Better Know an Office: Waterloo – Google Student Blog.

May 4th, 2011 – New Foundation Gives Cash for “Awesome” projects – Elmira Independent (inaccurately says I was involved in AF London, I wasn’t).

April 30th, 2011 – I Learned to Program

October 1st, 2010 – Digital Cup of Coffee with Chris Olson

September 7th, 2010 – Awesome Ottawa and I are featured in the first ever issue of Awesome Magazine!

August 13th, 2010 – Where tech, art and funding meet – Ottawa Business Journal

July 31st, 2010 – Interview about Awesome Ottawa on Around The Block [audio]

May 21st, 2010 – Altruism and a Group of Dreamers – UnFolding Magazine

May 12th, 2010 – Interview about Awesome Ottawa on CBC

February 5th, 2010 – Holiday Science Lectures Inspires Young Minds

December 18th, 2009 – uOttawa Press release for Holiday Science Lecture

March 2009 – Article in the Minnesota Parent about technology camps, and my alter-ego, DangerCat

October 2006 – Short piece about the internship program I participated in at Scott Logic

Talks / Workshops

November 4th, 2011 - Software Engineering for Superheros at a school [commentary].

October 27th, 2011 - Four Hours to Smash the CS Stereotype and Create Something Beautiful at COHERE (Diversifying Blended Learning) [slides and commentary].

October 25th, 2011 - In Pursuit of Awesome for ACCESS U at Laurier.

October 21st, 2011 - Software Engineering for Superheros – ONCWIC [commentary].

October 9th, 2011 - Secrets of Superheros (with Serena Ngai) – Geek Girl Con [commentary].

June 15th, 2011 – Why Programmers Lie To Get Dates – Ignite Waterloo [commentary, preparation].

May 26th, 2011 – Software Engineering for Superheros for DiscoverWISE, organized by CUWISE [commentary].

May 25th, 2011 – Software Engineering for Superheros for Gail Carmichael’s class [commentary].

April 11th, 2011 – uOttawa WISE – inspring women series [commentary].

April 11th, 2011 – Interviewing at Google at Carleton University for CU-WISE.

April 6th, 2011 – Four Hours to Smash the CS Stereotype and Create Something Beautiful at the Canada International Conference on Education [slides and commentary].

March 8th, 2011 – Short demo of Google Transit to Waterloo Region Planning Committee.

February 15th, 2011 – Being Yourself on the Internet (Remote presentation to students at Algonquin college in Ottawa) [slides and commentary]

January 26th, 2011 – Following the Conversation: A More Meaningful Measure of Engagement (MCETECH) [slides and commentary]

October 29th, 2010 – Beanstalk Project: In Pursuit of Awesome: 10 Things to Remember [slides and commentary]

October 7th, 2010 – Art, Life and Programming – for the Ottawa High School Technology Program

August 9th, 2010 – IBM Extreme Blue, North American Expo

August 6th, 2010 – IBM Extreme Blue, Canadian Expo

June 29th, 2010 – Girl Geek Dinner: Art, Life and Programming [slides and commentary]

April 27th, 2010 – L’art, la vie… et la programmation (to French Immersion students)

April 22nd, 2010 – Processing Workshop (16-18 year olds)

February 25th, 2010 – Twitter: Influence and Engagement (to Communications Grad students)

January 20th, 2010 – 15 Tools to Make University Easier (WISE lunchtime workshop)

December 28th, 2009 – Holiday Science Lecture: Art, Life and Programming / L’art, la vie… et la programmation

December 11th, 2009 – Applied Clique Finding: Discovering More about your Twitter Network

December 3rd, 2009 - An Introduction to Processing (remote workshop in Wave)

November 19th, 2009 – Java: Building Blocks (remote workshop in Wave)

November 13th, 2009 – Web 2.o (with supervisor and co-workers)

October 30th, 2009 – Conversation 2.0: Twitter