Girl's Day Workshops
2007
Digital Scrapbooking
Barb Snyderman '93
Come join us for a fun filled session on digital scrapbooking. Learn how to turn digital photos, some fun backgrounds, embellishments and text into cool looking scrapbooking pages.
Barb Snyderman is a 1993 CS graduate from St. Bonaventure University. In 2000, she started her own company, BITS LLC. Barb focuses on providing personalized web site design services to small companies and organizations in and around Rochester, New York.
Robot Simulation
Kimberly Trimboli '08
The workshop will focus on a robot simulation. The girls will pick the color of their robot and will have to maneuver it through a grid with obstacles, which they will control as to how many obstacles they want to have. This will allow the girls to do coding while allowing them to see a "finished product."
Kimberly Trimboli is a senior Journalism/ Mass Communications major with a keen interest in computer science major. She has taken several courses in computer science and is interested in sparking similar interest in young girls.
Alice
Angela Colomaio '08
Angela will work more logic into the Alice programs that the girls create, giving those girls who are already familiar with Alice a different type of project than what they normally do at Girls Day, but will keep it simple by teaching the basics for those who are new to Alice.
Angela is a 5th year MBA graduate student at St. Bonaventure and a Computer Science undergraduate. She is currently interning as a web programmer for Alcas in Olean, NY. Angela started working with Alice in her sophomore year and has presented many workshops on Alice since then. She hopes that the girls show the same enthusiasm and creativity this year that they have in previous years for getting to use Alice and creating animations of their own.
Insider’s Peak into AOL
Instant Messenger
Barbara McNally '93
As a Principle Product Manager working on AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Barbara McNally is responsible for designing the features that comprise each of the AIM Software Releases. She will discuss what her role on AIM entails and then provide a little glimpse into some of the more fun, and unknown, features in the most recent AIM Software. Barbara graduated from St. Bonaventure University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. After a summer of diving professionally at Six Flags Great Adventure in NJ, she attended The George Washington University full-time and obtained her Master of Science degree in Computer Science, with concentrations in graphics and multimedia. The summer of 1995 Barbara joined a very small multimedia company called Four Palms, Inc. which specialized in royalty free digital video. In June of 1996 she started at America Online, Inc. as a Software Engineer. Since then she has assumed the roles of Senior Software Engineer, Technical Manager and Senior Technical Manager on AIM. During this time the company’s name changed to AOL LLC, and in October 2006, Barbara assumed a job as Principle Product Manager of AIM.
Podcasting, Blogs,
Wikis, and Other Social Software
Ann Tenglund and Laura L’Esperance '08
Come find out about social software! In this session, we’ll be adding content to a blog and a wiki, and making our own podcasts. We’ll also give some thought to how to stay safe online.
Ann Tenglund is a systems librarian who works with all of the technology in the library, including the catalogs, databases, blogs, and hardware. It’s a fun job that also allows her to work in library instruction, helping people learn how to use the tools available, and teach some classes for education and computer science. She’s a SBU graduate who has found that you can never stop learning if you’re going to keep up with technology.
Laura L’Esperance is a junior computer science and music major here at SBU. This is her second year working with Girls’ Day and she feels privileged to do so. She hopes each year to help the girls participating to become more interested in science and technology so that one day they may pursue a career in it as well.