CONNECT: Creating Open Networks aNd Expanding Connections with Technology

科罗拉多矿业学院提议试行一项干预措施，名为“建立开放网络和扩大与技术的联系”，这将帮助参加2008年格雷斯·霍珀计算机界妇女庆祝活动的学生建立支持网络，更重要的是，在会议结束后维持这些联系。选择参加的会议注册者将在注册时完成一份关于他们的网络目标的问卷;然后，这些参与者将在会议上收到一个彩色条形码。准备好网络了吗？与会者在会议上见面将有机会以电子方式记录这种互动。在每一天结束时，与会者将被发送的姓名和联系方式的人，他们与沿着与评估他们是如何做他们的会前目标。如果成功，这个试点将导致一个更大的计划，旨在（1）鼓励与会者达到他们的网络目标，（2）沉淀从教师和计算专业人员到会议期间遇到的本科生和研究生的会后沟通，（3）通过提供与会者在哪里/何时达到他们的网络目标的数据，帮助GHC和其他会议的未来组织者，以及（4）评估在专业会议上发展的社交网络的长期实现。

The Colorado School of Mines proposes to pilot an intervention, called CONNECT: Creating Open Networks aNd Expanding Connections with Technology, that will help students attending the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2008 to develop support networks and, more importantly, to sustain those connections after the conference ends. Conference registrants choosing to participate will complete a questionnaire about their networking goals at registration; these participants will then receive a colored barcode on their badge at the conference, signaling ?Ready to Network?. Participants who meet at the conference will have the opportunity to have that interaction noted electronically. At the end of each day, participants will be sent the names and contact information for the people they networked with along with an assessment of how they are doing on their pre-meeting goals. If successful, this pilot will lead to a larger program aiming to (1) encourage attendees to reach their networking goals, (2) precipitate post-conference communication from faculty and computing professionals to undergraduate and graduate students met during the conference, (3) assist future organizers of GHC and other conferences by providing data on where/when attendees met their networking goals, and (4) evaluate the long-term realization of social networks that develop at professional conferences.