May 2012 Newsletter Vol 4: Issue 11

Dear Partners and Friends, As we reach the end of another school year, we are delighted to share news from our wonderful partners and to highlight the accomplishments of Globaloria students and teachers across the country. In May, AMD Foundation, our partner since 2009, renewed their support for the implementation of Globaloria as a daily computing curriculum for an entire school in Austin. Our team members traveled to celebrate the Globeys in Austin and Tampa, always amazed by the abundance of brainpower, inventiveness, and creativity of our Globaloria students and educatorsrealizing that if we can give kids the opportunity, they can develop into the innovative software developers and tech leaders our nation is urgently seeking. This month we welcomed two new team members in California and New York, and also generated a great deal of noise on the urgency of increasing participation of girls in computing in partnership with NCWIT. Cheers, Idit

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1. Globalorians Energized in Hackathons in Texas, West Virginia, and California 2. Globey Awards in Tampa and Austin Reveal Fresh Talent 3. AMD Renews Funding for Globaloria in Austin 4. Commitment to Increasing the Participation of Girls in Computing 5. Welcoming Two New Team Members in California and New York

1. Globalorians Energized in Hackathons in Texas, West Virginia, and California This month, many young Globalorians participated in Hackathons, getting together on their free time during the weekend to work on their games and complete them with attention to final details improving designs and coding solutions together. Visit the photo galleries for the Hackathon events at the Boys & Girls Club of Silicon Valley (CA) and EAPrep (TX).

Young Globaloria "hackers" at The Boys and Girls Club of Silicon Valley (left) and EAPrep Academy (right).

2. Globey Awards in Tampa and Austin Reveal Fresh Talent for the Future Two impressive Globey celebrations on May 17th highlighted the brainpower and imagination of outstanding young Globalorians who worked hard this school year to create their original games. In Tampa, Florida students, their family members and education and industry leaders gathered at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) for the First Annual Globeys in Florida. 12 Finalists presented their games to a panel of distinguished judges. All Finalists received a special certificate and videogames donated by our partners Konami, Electronic

Arts and Microsoft. The Winners received a game-design toolkit that included an Acer Laptop funded by AMD and Flash software donated by Adobe.

(Photos, left to right) 1. Chris Jargo, Supervisor, Business Technology Education for Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS). 2. Distinguished Panel of Judges (pictured): Pamela Campbell-Peralta and Jakub Prokop (HCPS), Rob McGarry, Microsoft. 3. Hillsborough County Globey First Place Winners, Team Mathladon. In Austin, the Second Annual Globey Awards and Ceremony was co-hosted by SouthwestKey and AMD Foundation at EAPreps new auditorium. Prominent members of the Austin community, including Representative Mark Strama and AMD Foundation leaders, joined the educators, students and families of EAPrep to celebrate with the 10 Finalists and Winners as they received their prizes: certificates, video games donated by Electronic Arts and drawing tablets funded by AMD for finalists; Game-Design-Toolkits that included AMD-funded Acer Laptops, Flash software donated by Adobe and video games from Konami were awarded to the Grand Prize Winners. The Austin Chronicles James Renovitch was there to capture the excitement of the Globeys and the enthusiasm of participating students. With support from the ESA Foundation, we also honored education

leaders for their outstanding

commitment to innovation. Our Leadership Inspiration Awards were awarded to Superintendent MaryEllen Elia, Larry Plank and Chris Jargo in Hillsborough County and to Dr. Juan Sanchez, Dr. Joe Gonzales and Marisol Rochas of EAPrep.

(Photos, left to right) 1. Allyson Peerman, AMD Foundation and Dr. Sanchez, Southwest Key. 2. Texas State Representative Mark Strama. 3. Michael Alvarez, Globey Winner (Gamer's Choice). Michael was also the recipient of the Scholastic Arts and Writing Award in the Videogame category.

3. AMD Renews Funding for Globaloria in Austin This month, AMD Foundation renewed its support for Globaloria and the programs ambitious mission to infuse computer science and software engineering into the education of every student at East Austins EAPrep throughout their middle and high school years. Over the past four years, AMD Foundation has been committed to building a uniquely-immersive STEM education model for the nation and the world in collaboration with Southwest Key and the World Wide Workshop a model that has the potential to inspire all boys and girls to excel in schools STEM subjects and aspire to STEM careers. We look forward to another great year as AMD Changing the Game continues to expand and engage students in game design as an innovative approach to STEM education, commented Anne Fertitta, Senior Manager, AMD Changing the Game.

4. Commitment to Increasing the Participation of Girls in Computing Women are underrepresented in STEM & Computing careers. Let's get them ready to succeed! says Workshop President & Founder Idit Harel Caperton, who attended the K-12 Alliance Meeting of the National Center for Women and IT (NCWIT) this month in Chicago. As a member of NCWIT's K-12 Alliance, the Workshop joins more than fifty leaders across the nation dedicated to helping girls everywhere become more interested and confident in computing. Increasing girls participation in computing is the nations new urgent education mission and has the potential to: 1) Improve technical innovation on a national level (by including the other 50%); 2) Reduce social inequalities (by ensuring that girls become able to pursue 1.4 million computing-related jobs in 2018); and 3) Ensure a competitive workforce (because failing to capitalize on womens talent threatens productivity, innovation and global competitiveness). Idit further elaborated on the need to reinvigorate and engage girls in computing education in her April and May Huffington Post blog articles, Calling All Girls (Parts One and Two).

5. Welcoming Shubha and Iba -- Two Great Women Joining Our Workshop Team The Workshop has always been blessed with the greatness of social-mission driven women-who-tech. In May we welcomed two new team members to help us grow our operations in the coming year. Shubha Tuljapurkar is our new Director of Partnerships and Operations in Silicon Valley. She brings 30 years of marketing and business management experience, most recently at LSI Logic and Silicon Magic, and is currently serving as a Silicon Valley Education Foundation Encore Fellow. Shubha is working closely with Amber Oliver, VP Partnerships and Operations. In our New York office, we welcomed Iba Dawson as a Projects Manager. Iba has spent seven years in the area of eLearning and Instructional Design working for companies such as Saks Fifth Avenue and The New York Times. She a holds a degree in Engineering Science from the University of Virginia. Iba is working closely with Shannon Sullivan, VP Programs and Production.

Shubha and Iba at one of Globaloria's Educators Academies

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