CWIT -Center for Women In Technology

It's Field Trip Friday! Some of our Cyber Scholars and Affiliates got to check out the National Cryptologic Museum today. Interesting stuff!

Congratulations to CWIT Scholar Catherine Wraback (second from left) and the whole ChemE Jeopardy team on their recent win!

Congratulations to UMBC's ChemE Jeopardy team on their victory at this past weekend's ChemE Jeopardy Competition Finals at the 2022 AIChE Annual Student Conference! From left to right- Max Bobbin '23, Colin Jones '25, Catherine Wraback '23, Neha Raikar (team advisor and coach), and Pavan Umashankar '24.

Today is International Women in Engineering Day and we encourage you to check out this article that CWIT's Associate Director, Dr. Danyelle Ireland, has written. She shares some facts about the underrepresentation of women in engineering fields, as well as strategies that the Center for Women in Technology (CWIT) at UMBC and similar programs at other universities are using to help create positive change in this area.

Only about 1 in 5 engineering degrees go to women A negative environment dissuades many women engineering students from staying in the field. Can colleges and universities do anything to reverse the trend?

Thanks to everyone who came out to the CWIT end of year picnic today! We were thrilled to host this great event again today after a two year hiatus due to the pandemic.

Thank you! As of this morning, CWIT has received more than $2,000 from twelve donors as part of the ! We can't wait to utilize these generous donations in support of our mission and students. If anyone else would like to participate in Giving Day (and a half), it continues until 9pm today. You can donate to CWIT directly by using this link:

Giving Day 2022 You may be able to double or triple your gift through your employer’s matching gift program. Click the link below to see if your employer can match your contribution.