[GWAMIT] GWAMIT Announcements

[Clarissa Lee]

Dear Graduate Women,

We are very excited to begin bringing you weekly announcements of  
interest to the MIT and Boston graduate women's community.  By doing  
so, we hope to improve your awareness and access to current campus  
resources.  A full list of resources and programming relevant to  
graduate women is located on our website (http://gsc.mit.edu/gwamit)  
and calendar (http://gsc.mit.edu/gwamit/events.html).

We hope you enjoyed our article in The Tech (http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N4/gwamit.html 
) last Friday!  Look for an article coming soon in The Graduate (http://thegraduate.mit.edu/ 
).

Enjoy the Week!



The GWAMIT Board

Send your ideas to: gwamit-exec at mit.edu

Send your announcements to: gwamit-sec at mit.edu





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IN BRIEF

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1. GWAMIT Spring Kick-off Planning Committee

2. Infant and Toddler Parenting Group

3. The ODGE Celebration of Graduate Women of MIT

4. The Women and Entrepreneurship Series

5. Celebration of Women and Technology


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FULL ANNOUNCEMENTS

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1. GWAMIT Spring Kick-off Planning Committee

We are currently planning our first flagship event of the year, a  
Spring kick-off event, which will occur April 26-30, 2010.  We  
envision a week-long series of workshops, seminars, and panels focused  
on empowerment, leadership, and personal development.

To get involved contact: gwamit-spring at mit.edu



2. Infant and Toddler Parenting Group

When: 4-5 p.m. Thursdays starting February 11

Where: Eastgate Penthouse

Want an informal setting to meet other parents and discuss your  
various parenting challenges? Let's get together and talk about sleep,  
separation anxiety, teething, setting limits, and all of those other  
tasks that parents face. This is not a play group, but you are welcome  
to bring your children (optional). Led by Andrea Schmidt, graduate  
student and mother of two. All MIT parents are welcome.
For more information contact Andrea at aews at mit.edu

You may also be interested in...

BabyNet Play Group - Tuesdays from 3:30-5 p.m. in the Eastgate Penthouse
Fun, music, and activities for infants to preschoolers
Moms-to-be Group - connect with other expecting parents
Next Meeting: Thursday, February 11 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in E23-364
Contact Jennifer Recklet at 617-253-1614 or reck at med.mit.edu


3. The Office of the Dean for Graduate Education is Celebrating the  
Graduate Women of MIT this spring!

  We would love for you to get involved in a variety of ways.
o   Nominate an outstanding Graduate Woman: we’re asking graduate  
women to nominate their outstanding peers who are making a difference  
in the work that they do (and perhaps furthering the future of  
graduate women by breaking new ground)! vote here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2NMJ8KP

o   Join the planning committee: help us organize the exhibit, manage  
nominations for excellent Graduate Women, and install the exhibit

o   Help design the display: we’re looking for talented visual and a/v  
women to help with the design of the posters and video components of  
the display

If you would like to join the committee or are interested in working  
on the visual display, please send me an email. If you want to  
nominate an outstanding graduate woman, please vote here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2NMJ8KP
Contact Libby at lputman at mit.edu to get involved



4. The Women and Entrepreneurship Series, brought to you by SWIM and  
the MIT E-Center

3 informal lunches with successful female entrepreneurs * 1 SIP  
workshop * 1 networking reception with MIT graduate women and members  
of the Boston-area entrepreneurship and VC communities!

First Event: Lunch with Bettina Hein, SM ’07 -- Founder and CEO,  
Pixability (lunch will be provided)

When: Tuesday, February 16, 11:45am-1pm

Where: E51-393

Topic: Getting Started – finding the idea and the team with a focus on  
refining the innovation and the business models and looking for early  
sources of funding.

Speaker Bio: Bettina Hein, SM ’07 – Founder and CEO, Pixability.  
Bettina founded Pixability to help entrepreneurs and small businesses  
tell their story with video and win more customers in the process.  
Bettina also co-founded Swiss-based speech technology specialist SVOX  
AG and led the venture-backed software company to profitability. In  
1996, Bettina was the initiator of the START (http://startglobal.org),  
which encourages entrepreneurship among university students.

About the Founder Lunch Series:

The aim of the Founders Lunch Series is to bring in one founder for  
Tuesdays from 11:45am-1pm to sit down with a small group of students  
and share their experiences as an entrepreneur in an informal and  
intimate setting; the discussion is meant to be interactive –  
questions are definitely welcome! It is also a great chance to network  
with the entrepreneurs as well as to meet classmates with similar  
interests.

This is a speaker series to allow the women’s community at MIT,  
especially graduate women, to hear first hand about the process and  
experience of starting, funding, and growing a business. MIT and the  
surrounding area is one of the most successful ecosytems for  
entrepreneurship in the world, but women are consistently  
underrepresented, as they are around the country; this series will  
provide some role models and connections.

Contact Veena at veenaj at mit.edu



5. Celebration of Women and Technology

When: Thursday, Feb 25, 2-6 pm

Where: Microsoft Research, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142

Women at the media lab are often visionaries and pioneers of their  
fields. We have lots to learn from each other, coming from many  
diverse backgrounds and cultures. Join us to meet alumnae as well as  
current members of the community.  Let's get together to celebrate  
women and technology at Microsoft Research, hosted by researcher and  
alumnae danah boyd, Social Media Researcher.

Please RSVP by Friday, Feb 12th to mediawomenrsvp at gmail.com

Refreshments sponsored by Microsoft and the MediaWomen's group

  
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