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Ruthie D. Lyle-Cannon, PhD Lead Research Engineer USAA March 5, 2015

+Agenda

YOURstory

Women in STEM

HERstory

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Dr. Shirley Jackson

18th President RPI, first African American to earn PHD at MIT (1973 nuclear

physics)

Kalpana Chawla first Indian-American

Astronaut, first Indian in space, killed in Space

Shuttle Columbia Disaster

Liu Yang China’s first female

astronaut

+HERstory “It was a turbulent time in history; the future stood waiting for change. In nearly all areas of society, the time was right for disruption. It was time for barriers to come down and limits to shatter; and finally time, for HERstory to pivot. Now the only limit is you and the span of your dreams.”

+ Pick’in Cotton Sometime during the early 1940s in a small town in Sylvania Georgia, a black girl was born to a family of 12.

Although bright and said to be of strong promise by her teachers, she could not attend school everyday.

Instead to help provide an income for her family, she worked every other day picking cotton on land her family didn’t own.

+ Toppin’ ‘Baca About 10 years earlier in 1930 in Clarksville Tennessee a boy was born in of tobacco farmers.

He also was one of the oldest of 11 children and despite being identified as a “tinker able to fix most things” he was forced to stop school in the six grade and work the farm full time. They owned their land.

+ Evolution of My Life Victory Challenge

Decision

1987 Roosevelt High School

1992 Northeastern University

1998 NYU-Poly

1999 IBM

2014 USAA

1st AA Female PhD, EE

Married Started Family

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INVENT Emerging Technologies

PASSION ON PURPOSE

FREEDOM TO EXPLORE

LEVERAGE TECH

OUTSIDE THE BOX

+Women in STEM Can we craft a conversation around the reality of the numbers and why it matters?

+Women: Engineering

+Women: Computer Science

+ “99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story.” Gents with No Cents by Ron DeLegge II

Gents with No Cents by Ron DeLegge II― Ron DeLegge II, Gents with No Cents

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Why does it matter?

“A stereotype is not a stereotype if it's true.” ― Ron DeLegge II, Gents with No Cents

+We’ve Got Problems !!

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Social Issues à Technology

+Why does it matter?

n Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

n Diversity of Thought, Perspective and Experience

n The World is Flat: Global and Social Challenges to be Solved

n Unrealized Talent

+YOURstory "Even the longest journey must begin where you stand.” “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)

+WIE Summit in Review:

Success Stories

Overcoming Adversity

Career

Career and Family

Building a Thriving Business

People, Panels, Presentations and Purpose

+Closing Thoughts “Now the only limit is you and the span of your dreams.“

n  Make Your Journey Authentically Yours!

n  Determine what matter most to you

n  Be Flexible and Open to Change

n  Learn from and Teach Others

n  Make Decisions without Fear

n  Enjoy Life

God 1st, Family, Career YOURstory

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“A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things.” — Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, the U.S. Navy’s oldest active-duty officer at the time of her retirement, developer of the first compiler for a computer programming language, developer of UNIVAC I and COBOL, and coiner of the terms “computer bug” and “debugging.