{"id":55,"date":"2016-03-31T05:36:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T03:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/?p=55"},"modified":"2020-08-06T10:20:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T08:20:21","slug":"starting-with-a-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2016\/03\/31\/starting-with-a-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting with a blast!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the afternoon of Wednesday 24th February, we had our opening event. It was a jam packed event with about 70 attendees.<\/p>\n<p>We celebrated the late <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anita_Borg\">Anita Borg&#8217;s<\/a> birthday . Anita Borg is the pioneer of the global Women In Technology movement. We also had googlers , Irina Dumitrescu and Nicole Williams share the career journey. We are grateful for the support from members and department staff for the huge turnout.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Google our sponsors for making it possible.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-157\" src=\"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_8579-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8579\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_8579-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_8579.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-207\" src=\"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_8591-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8591\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_8591-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_8591.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_8591-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-208\" src=\"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_8592-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8592\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_8592-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_8592.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_8592-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the afternoon of Wednesday 24th February, we had our opening event. It was a jam packed event with about 70 attendees. We celebrated the late Anita Borg&#8217;s birthday . Anita Borg is the pioneer of the global Women In Technology movement. We also had googlers , Irina Dumitrescu and Nicole Williams share the career &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2016\/03\/31\/starting-with-a-blast\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starting with a blast!<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}