{"id":9731,"date":"2018-12-19T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/?page_id=9731"},"modified":"2018-12-19T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:26:10","slug":"lauren-niesz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-science\/featured-alumni-and-graduates\/lauren-niesz\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Niesz"},"content":{"rendered":"

B.A. English \u201917 & M.S. Information Systems\u00a0 \u201919\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing changed her life….\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\"\"<\/h3>\n

I was lucky\u00a0enough in Fall 2017 to have been sponsored by the School of Science to attend the Grace Hopper\u00a0Celebration of Women in computing in Orlando, Florida. This conference is one of, if not the largest,\u00a0conference in the world for women in technology. In 2017, there\u00a0 were approximately 18,000 attendees;\u00a0this year it was closer to 22,000 attendees. Attendees include scholars, students, faculty, industry representatives\/recruiters, and mentors in the field\u2014an extremely enticing group of people to network\u00a0with for a student such as myself.<\/p>\n

My attendance at the conference last year aided me in my quest for finding a niche in this field of study. I\u00a0came into this program as an undergraduate student of English and found it a very difficult transition into\u00a0my parallel passion for technology. Had it not been for the School of Science\u2019s generosity in sending six\u00a0students to the conference, including myself, I would have never been able to keep up momentum in the\u00a0program and I would not have been exposed to all of the opportunity in this blossoming field.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, if I hadn\u2019t been exposed to this conference, I would have never known of the opportunity to\u00a0apply for a scholarship to have AnitaB.org<\/a> sponsor my attendance for September, 2018. I was able\u00a0to secure a sponsorship on my own, with recommendation from Monmouth faculty, to attend.\u00a0My trip to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Houston, Texas this year
\ncompletely changed my life. This time around, I had a focus that I could pitch to recruiters. I was able to\u00a0secure a job on-site with Comcast\/NBC\/Universal in Philadelphia starting in June 2019 after I graduate\u00a0from Monmouth with my master\u2019s degree. I arrived at the conference determined and armed with a toolkit\u00a0provided to me by my studies at Monmouth, and left the conference with a full-time job and exciting\u00a0future.<\/p>\n

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