What is CISters?

Our mission is to nurture girls' interest in Computer and Information Science (CIS), 
support women already pursuing a CIS education, and foster a diverse image of the technology field. 

We look forward to new members from the class of 2013!

Upcoming Events

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Awards

CISters honored graduating seniors Kaitlyn Hanrahan and Rachel Ober as Outstanding Female Graduates for the Class of 2008. Over the past 5 years, these two have done a tremendous amount for the college. These women have demonstrated leadership, academic integrity & excellence, volunteerism and commitment to CCIS. 

Kaitlyn Hanrahan- Dual Degree in Computer Science & Information Science. Founding teacher and organizer of Teach Scheme, Founding member of CISters, 5 years as an ACM officer (including ACM President), Crew member. Responsible for taking the helm of crew this semester. Volunteering for co-op panels and upper class panels for freshman overview classes. Being on various welcome day and interested student days.  Taught a class in Adobe Flex as part of NuACM's CPU program.

Kaitlyn has also studied abroad as part of Dialogues of Civilization program in Northern Ireland where she studied conflict. In addition to studying abroad she also co-oped abroad in Milan, Italy at Prudential where she was a database analyst.  Kaitlyn's other two co-ops were a Developer at State Street Global Advisor, and a Developer at Adobe where she accepted a full time position after graduation.


Rachel Ober- Dual Degree in Computer Science & Psycology. 5 years as an ACM officer (including ACM president). Crew member(NUrd radio).  Personal Projects which include (multiple monitors on Ubuntu, recycling project. She also worked as a research assistant at the college where she worked on a project to keep track of user's collection of CDs, DVDs, books etc, and allow them to trade with others. Rachel is also a founding member of CISters. She taught a course in CSS as part of NuACM's CPU program.

Rachel's co-op experiences include: being a QA Engineer at EMC corporation, a Business Application Developer at CVS/Pharma Care, and a final co-op at Merck & Co. Labs


Latest News
CISters held an ice cream social to kick off the final week of classes, where Rachel Ober and Kaitlyn Hanrahan were honored as Outstanding female Graduates, and recognized as honorary lifetime members.

CISters put on a brunch to kick off ACM's Spring Geek Week.

In March, CISters founder Andrea Grimes (now a PhD student at Georgia Tech) came to discuss her research.
    Designing Technologies to Support Healthy Eating Practices in Low-Income Communities

 In March, CISters hosted an Alumni Panel Dinner, and was honored by 4 alumns.
 Cathy Bilotti-Lucia, class of '86, Director, Project Office, Raytheon
 Andrea Grimes, class of '05, PhD Student Georgia Tech
 Danna Studivant, class of '95, IS Engineer, Philips Medical Systems
 Catherine Weeks, class of '07, User Experience Engineer, SeaChange International

CISters celebrated Pi day with some pizza and with a night of rock climbing.

CISters is in the process of becoming an offically recoginzed student group.

In January CISters went to Frog Pond for a night of Ice Skating.
 
In November Professor Harriet Fell (Northeastern Univeristy) gave a talk on 'Speech, Whats in it?'