Dream comes true for late-in-life grad
By Pam Kragen - The San Diego Union-Tribune
Zsuzsanna Dianovics of Del Mar, California, has been named the Dean’s Outstanding Graduate for the College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at Cal State San Marcos with a computer science degree in cybersecurity.
SAN DIEGO – Zsuzsanna Dianovics was 7 years old when her family moved to the U.S. from Hungary. From an early age, she remembers her mom insisting that one day Zsuzsanna would make the family proud as a first-generation college student.
But when Dianovics was attending university in Illinois in the mid-’90s, she got pregnant and was forced to drop out of college at age 21. Four years later, she was a single mom with two children and was bartending and waiting tables to support her young family. She never gave up on college, but it became a dream that would have to wait.
Addis Ababa, 14 December 2020 (ECA) - “We are extremely proud of the incredibly innovative capacity demonstrated by the young girls over the past two weeks,” said Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), on Friday 11 December 2020.
She was speaking at the end of a coding boot camp jointly organized by ECA and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as part of activities to mark the UN’s 75th anniversary. The camp brought together over 2000 young girls online and in person at the UN Conference Centre in Addis Ababa from 30 November to 11 December 2020.
The event aimed at promoting ICTs as important tools for women’s empowerment. It featured sessions on gender equality, human rights, confidence-building, publish speaking, coding with Scratch, robotics and Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, design thinking, gaming, fashion, and animation. It culminated with an innovation fair and a competition to test participants’ skil