Girls in Technology (GIT) Mentor-Protege Program in Virginia's Announcement for session on Passion for STEM. STEM education can provide us with expanded career opportunities. As high school students, protégés are contemplating what to major in college and what kind of career to pursue. Does a future in STEM mean we have to trade in our passions for a career? The session will explore our interests and passions and how combined with STEM, our passions can elevate to greater heights!

1. Virginia 2014-2015
WELCOME TO OUR MENTOR-PROTÉGÉ PROGRAM!
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 Time: 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
AT&T Government Solutions
1900 Gallows Road
Vienna, VA 22182
Session #3: Passion for STEM & CyberGirls Demonstration
Mentor-Protégé Session #3: Passion for STEM
STEM education can provide us with expanded career opportunities. As high school students,
protégés are contemplating what to major in college and what kind of career to pursue. Does
a future in STEM mean we have to trade in our passions for a career? The session will explore our
interests and passions and how combined with STEM, our passions can elevate to greater
heights!
Demonstrators
Girls in Technology CyberGirls
Girls in Technology, in partnership with
Maryland and Virginia high schools and
universities, hosts a yearlong programwith
CyberPatriots. CyberPatriotsis the premier
national high school cyber defense
competition designed to excite, educate,
and motivate the next generation of cyber
defenders critical to our nation’s security.
GIT’s CyberGirls will provide cyber security
demonstrations to the Mentor-Protégé
Program.
Learn more about GIT’s Cyber Girls:
http://www.womenintechnology.org/service/git/cyberpatriot-teams

2. Virginia 2014-2015
Girls in Technology ProgramChair
Trish Barber
Trish is returning as the 2014-2015 Girls in Technology Program Chair!
Trish is an accomplished digital media marketing professional with
experience in leveraging internet software tools to supercharge an
organization’s traditional marketing efforts. Trish’s has been in the digital
media space since the early 1990’s as one of the first 150 employees at
AOL
where she was involved in bringing traditional media companies online and leveraging AOL’s
user community to generate content that enhanced traditional media coverage. She held
leadership positions with AOL’s Greenhouse, AOL’s Digital City, and AOL Community.
More recently, Trish has been involved with entrepreneurial technology companies that are
changing the way marketing is done. She co-founded a venture backed software company
called iBelong Networks and later founded 3WaysDigital where she is providing database
marketing services to companies realizing that traditional marketing methods aren’t enough in
this technology economy.
Trish is the mother of three children and has learned that parenting is the ultimate
entrepreneurial venture. She enjoys taiko drumming, wine collecting, hiking, needle work, and
being a groupie for her kids.
Chair, Virginia Mentor-Protégé
Jenny Oh
Jenny is currently an Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton. She has worked with
several technology and financial organizations providing financial and business
strategy. She attended the University of Maryland for both undergraduate and
graduate studies in Finance, and Information Technology Project
Management.
She is very passionate about advancing arts and culture, as well as empowering the youth,
minorities, and women through mentoring, financial literacy, socio-cultural integration, and
academic and professional development. Jenny loves collaborating with various community-
centric organizations to design programs, develop funding strategies, and to have fun.
Jenny is an avid traveler. When she is not in the office or on the front lines of community
activism; she is off on a bike, bus, train, plane, or boat exploring the global backyard. During a
trip to South Africa in January 2013, she was extremely saddened by the profound and helpless
circumstances of women due to the lack of social infrastructure for progress. The week Jenny
returned home to Virginia, she joined Women in Technology and Girls in Technology. She is
proud to be part of an organization that provides females with resources, support and
motivation to aim high, achieve success, and overcome challenges and barriers.

3. Virginia 2014-2015
Sponsor
Programs are made possible through the generosity of professional women who donate their
time, energy and passion and corporate sponsorships, such as AT&T, Johns Hopkins, and Women
in Technology Education Foundation.
Thanks to our Program Underwriter:
The Women in Technology Education Foundation (WITEF) empowers women and girls to change
the world by excelling in STEM-related careers. We use education to create awareness,
excitement, and opportunity among girls and women, and to encourage them to work in
technology- related fields.
WITEF provides scholarships, mentoring, tools, and speakers, and supports school-sponsored and
community-based programs that foster technology interest in girls and women of all ages. We
also provide financial support to sponsor field trips, assist with program and curriculum
development, and contribute program resources for Career Days in Virginia, Maryland, and DC
to serve economically and socially disadvantaged girls. Through WITEF’s efforts, thousands of girls
and women in the metropolitan DC area have learned about the exciting opportunities
available to them in technology-related careers.
Thanks to our Program Host:
AT&T Government Solutions is a long-standing, trusted source of information technology solutions
for the federal government, integrating unmatched network resources and IT managed
solutions expertise with innovative technologies from AT&T Labs and a complementary team of
industry-leading technology companies. Best known for network leadership in voice, data,
video, and managed services, AT&T is a proven solutions integrator, with professional service
expertise in enterprise architecture, business transformation, knowledge management, training,
program management, systems engineering and security.
Driving Directions
AT&T Government Solutions
1900 Gallows Rd. Vienna, VA 22182
Directions from I-495, the Beltway
Take Exit 47A West onto Route 7 (Leesburg Pike). Follow Route 7 west approximately one mile.
Turn left at the second stoplight onto Gallows Road. Make an immediate right onto Boone
Boulevard. The AT&T parking garage is on your left. Visitor parking is located on the ground level.

4. Virginia 2014-2015
Mentor-Protégé Program Schedule
Our monthly sessions are held on Wednesday evenings from 6 - 8:30 PM. Each session will include
a light meal, networking, featured speaker or panel discussion and group mentoring.
The session agenda for each session:
6:00 – 6:30 Sign-in/Networking/Refreshments
6:30 – 6:45 Welcome/Announcements
6:45 – 7:30 Featured Speaker/Panel Discussion
7:30 – 8:30 Mentoring sessions
8:30 Close-out
Recommend Others for the Mentor-Protégé Program!
Encourage the high school girls in your house, neighborhood or circle to apply for this program!
Visit Girls in Technology to apply, www.womenintechnology.org/GIT. Up to thirty-five High School
girls are accepted into each program. While most of our Mentors continue to work with us, we
encourage new Mentors to apply as well. GIT holds two congruent programs per year in Tyson’s
Corner, Virginia and Rockville, Maryland with 5 sessions each.
About Girls in Technology
Girls in Technology (GIT) is led by a steering committee of Women in Technology (WIT) that is
dedicated to offering programs for girls in grades 6 through 12 that are designed to create
awareness and excitement about careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)
as well as educate and inspire by introducing girls to the vast array of opportunities available to
women in these fields. Program speakers, mentors and committee members volunteer their time
to make a difference in the lives of our future generations. Programs are made possible through
the generosity of corporate sponsorships, Women in Technology and WIT Education Foundation.
About WIT and WIT Education Foundation
Women in Technology Education Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Northern Virginia’s
powerful organization, Women in Technology (WIT), and the primary funder of WIT’s committee,
Girls in Technology (GIT). The Foundation empowers women and girls to change the world by
excelling in technology-related careers. We use education to create awareness, excitement
and opportunity among girls and women, and to encourage them to work in technology-
related fields.
Event / Topic Virginia Sessions
Mentor Orientation Session September 24
Session 1 – Protégé Orientation & STEM Career Exploration October 8
Session 2 – Leadership November 12
*No December Program*
Session 3 – A Passion for STEM: How to Own Your Success January 7
Session 4 – Innovation: Embrace Fear and Learn to Fail February 11
Session 5 - Graduation & How Can You Change the World? March 11

5. Virginia 2014-2015
Program Contacts
Program Contacts:
ProgramChair, Girls in Technology:
Trish Barber
Email: tbarber@3waysdigital.com
Chair, Virginia Mentor-ProtégéProgram:
Jenny Oh
Email: jenny.k.oh@gmail.com
Vice Chair, Virginia Mentor-Protégé Program:
Edith Ababio
Email: edith.ababio@gmail.com
Protégé Liaison:
Melanie Hendrick
Email: hendrick_melanie@bah.com
Mentor Liaison:
Whitney Vickrey
Email: wmv747@gmail.com
WITOffice:
Email: staff@womenintechnology.org
Tel: 703-766-1153
Connect with us!
Facebook: Click Here
Twitter: Click Here
Blog: Click Here
LinkedIn: Click Here
To host or underwrite a Girls in Technology Program, please contact:
Dede Haskins
Chair, WITEducation Foundation
Email: dhaskins@newvisionhealth.com
Karen Louis
Treasurer, WITEducation Foundation
Email: Karen.louis@WJTechnologies.com