FINAL REPORT

Central Indiana Celebration
of
Women in Computing

February 20-21, 2004
Canyon Inn

McCormick's Creek State Park
Spencer, Indiana



The highly successful Central Indiana Celebration of Women in Computing (CICWIC) was held February 20-21, 2004 at McCormick's State Park. The 24 hour celebration drew 85 graduate and undergraduate students from Butler, DePauw, Indiana University, Rose Hulman, and Purdue. IU had student representation from the Computer Science Department, School of Informatics, School of Library and Information Science, and the Kelly School of Business. The Indiana University organizers for the event were Beth Plale, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, and Suzanne Menzel, Instructor, Computer Science.

CICWIC is a new concept. It pioneers a regional version of the larger, nationwide Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing . This year's CICWIC conference was a pilot project, and as such, the organizers, led by DePauw's Gloria Childress Townsend, put significant energy into documenting the organization process so that the model can be adopted easily. We hope to present the results at panel presentations in the future.

CICWIC could not have happened without the generous support of the departments and schools of the participating institutions. We'd particularly like to thank our Indiana University sponsors, the Computer Science Department and School of Informatics, as well as Hewlett Packard and Microsoft.


Indiana University's Women In Computing at IU (WIC@IU) group has a strongshowing at CICWIC. Back row L to R: Fang (Cherry) Liu, Ying Liu, NithyaSivaraman, Nithya Vijaykumar. Front row L to R: Deepti Kodeboyina andPoornima Venkatakrishnan.
Panel of undergraduate students discuss perils and pleasures of pursuingdegrees in computing at their respective institutions: Rose Hulman,Butler, DePauw, Purdue, and IU (left to right.) Moderated by BarbClark, Purdue.