From Anxiety to Accomplishment β the road to presenting at my first conference
Anya Nailea Carbonell
ASU Center for Gender Equity in Science & Technology
The Conference on Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT) was my first professional conference experience out of college. Being a recent Boston University graduate, this would be my first professional event as an βadultβ. However, my three years of experience at ³ΙΘΛΏμ²₯, a STEM education research and development nonprofit based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, gave me the confidence to face this challenge.
While not my first project at ³ΙΘΛΏμ²₯, working on the CompuPower project with Dr. Maria (Mia) Ong, Dr. Michael Cassidy, and Sabrina De Los Santos was the first time I helped write a conference proceedings paper and presentation. CompuPower was an in-school technology and leadership program aimed at exposing rural high school students to culturally responsive computing projects.











