Five new participants have been chosen to join the Women in IT Networking program at SC (WINS) program for SC21 - the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC) which will take place this year from November 14-19 in St. Louis, Missouri.

WINS was developed in 2015 to help address the gender gap that exists in information technology, particularly in the fields of network engineering and high performance computing (HPC). Each year WINS welcomes a cohort of early-to-mid career women to join the team that builds SCinet, a multi-terabit network built specially for high-bandwidth demonstrations SC attendees and exhibitors who perform high-bandwidth demonstrations. The program seeks women of all ages, races, backgrounds, IT-related professions, and geographical areas.

“Lack of diversity in IT particularly with women and minorities is significant and an ongoing challenge and concern,” said Marla Meehl (Manager Networking and Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)) and WINS-PI. “WINS is a small effort to encourage women in their early and mid-careers to stay in IT and find a professional network to engage and gain technical and non-technical support.”

The five chosen for the SC21 WINS program from among 19 applicants are:

See this Energy Sciences Network article for more information.