TOPICS WE'LL COVER
1
Medicine
How Black bodies and DNA has informed medical practices still used.
2
Social Media
To use or not to use? Why? How? The dilemma of oblivious influencing & how to move to healthy awareness and use.
3
Responsible Cell Phone Usage
Legality of recording videos, sharing them, texting, etc.
4
Kujichagulia
Swahili for self-determination, what do you need to build agency?
5
Pay Scale
Realities of disproportionate pay by gender and race -- how do you prepare for that? Navigate? Negotiate?
5
Coding & Gaming
Gaming is BIG business -- are you a maker? A player? How might your likeness be being co-opted?
6
UX, UI
This little known field needs to be popularized, esp since so much technology is catered to us! UX & UI are all about the user interaction and experience -- and jobs with this title are high paying. Might this be the next thing you major in?
7
AI & VR
Speech-to-text, sensors so cars don't get too close, ChatGPT to write a whole paper, and hiking a mountain or playing in an NFL game all without leaving your living room -- good, bad, or indifferent, AI & VR are here; let's talk about them.
8
Media
Podcasting, shooting & editing a new video or film, voiceovers, beat-making, TikTok uploads -- what technology is used in producing audio, visual or print?
9
What will you design? will you do it with equity in mind? how to design the next meaningfully useful thing while solving for a problem that matters.
10
Advocacy
Who are you and what do you need to be you? who do you hope to become (professionally)? now how do you advocate for that so you not only survive but thrive in tech/STEM spaces? Know this, then learn how to convey this message via the roundtable discussion.
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