Oregon student wins National Aspirations in Computing Award July 24 2021
Pauline Petersen, a junior at Lakeridge High School, has received a prestigious award from the National Center for Women in Information Technology.
The National Center for Women in Information Technology has honored a local student with its National Aspirations in Computing Award.
Pauline Petersen, a junior at Lakeridge High School, was selected as a national award recipient by the NCWIT she is one of 400 out of more than 4,000 applicants.
Petersen is also a regional winner for Oregon and Southwest Washington.
Award recipients are selected based on demonstrated interest and achievements in computing, leadership skills, academic performance and future college plans in the field, according to a news release.
Author of the article: Steph Crosier
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A local 16-year-old robotics competitor walked away from the regional science fair with roughly $1,300 cash, a $1,000 scholarship to the University of Ottawa and a ticket to the national competition.
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IMAGE: Michael Franz of the University of California, Irvine is the recipient of the ACM Charles P. Chuck Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award. view more
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ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Michael Franz of the University of California, Irvine is the recipient of the ACM Charles P. Chuck Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award. Franz is recognized for the development of just-in-time compilation techniques that enable fast and feature-rich web services on the internet. Every day, millions of people around the world use online applications such as Gmail and Facebook. These web applications would not have been possible without the groundbreaking compilation technique Franz developed in the mid 1990s.