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In March 2020, my undergraduate alma mater announced that they were sending students home for the rest of the semester. This was an unanticipated setback for students and soon-to-be graduates and I wanted to help. I reached out to the Alumni office and learned that students at Bowdoin, a Liberal Arts College that grants a BA degree, are increasingly interested in careers in high tech but do not have a clear pathway to connect them to appropriate opportunities. As a graduate who has had a long, successful career in this area, I volunteered to organize a panel discussion and recruited several of my colleagues to share their experiences and to offer tangible steps students can take now to prepare. Slides from our all-female tech panel, held in April 2020, are included above.

Credits

Many thanks to my fellow panelists Angela Sharer, Christy Doran, Kristina Colburn, and Riona MacNamara and to Bethany Walsh at the Bowdoin Office of Career Services.