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GirlTECH and SAS 1997

Richard Tapia and Cynthia Lanius, co-directors of the GirlTECH/MCSA Workshop, present teachers with training about computers and about how minori
ties and women can succeed in computational science careers.

Students Paola Argaez, Angelina Meza, and Becky Tapia confer with
GirlTECH/MCSA Workshop Co-Director Richard Tapia after attending a workshop
session where minority and women graduate students discussed their research
projects.
(Images by Ewasko)

GirlTECH/MCSA Workshop participants share ideas on how to
encourage minorities and women to pursue mathematics and science careers.
From left to right, Lucille Barrera, Bahiyyah El-Amin, workshop co-director
Cynthia Lanius, and Isaiah Bromon. The workshop was co-sponsored by the
Center for Research on Parallel Computation and the RGK Foundation of
Austin, Texas.
(Images by Ewasko)

Students Paola Argaez, Becky Tapia, and Angelina Meza confer with
GirlTECH/MCSA Workshop Co-Director Cynthia Lanius after attending a
workshop session. The graduate students discussed their research and urged
GirlTECH/MCSA teachers to encourage their minority and women students to
pursue science and mathematics careers.
(Images by Ewasko)

Rice CAAM Department graduate student and SAS student Erica Zimmer
advises GirlTECH/MCSA Workshop teachers about how to encourage minority and
women students to pusue mathematics and science careers. As an SAS student,
Erica worked with Rice Professor John Dennis on a nonlinear mixed integer
programming problem to optimize the design of a water treatment plant.
(Images by Ewasko)

Rice CAAM Department graduate student and SAS student Regina Hill speaks
on her successful efforts to solve the wave equation using the finite element
method with mass lumping. Rice Professor William Symes was her mentor.
(Images by Ewasko)

Richard Tapia,
GirlTECH/MCSA Workshop Co-Director, leads a lively discussion among
teachers at the program. This marked the eighth year Tapia conducted the
MCSA Workshop and the first year the GirlTECH and MCSA Workshops were
combined.
(Images by Ewasko)

Rice Computer Science graduate student Carlos Uribe presents his research to GirlTECH/MCSA teachers. Uribe's research project involved understandi
ng aspects of computer analysis as related to medical procedures, specifically an analysis of electromyography used in the study and diagnosis of muscle disease.
(Images by Ewasko)

Rice CAAM undergraduates, also SAS participants, Samitra Seales and
Erin Kellam discuss their research topic, "Implementing Computational Math
in K-12 Education," with GirlTECH/MCSA Workshop teachers.
(Images by Ewasko)
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