Women In Technology Announces Winners of the 2018 Women of the Year Awards
Winners announced for the annual event celebrating girls and women in STEAM
ATLANTA, Nov. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- WIT's Women of the Year Awards gathers top members of Georgia's STEAM community to recognize and announce the Women of the Year for their accomplishments as leaders in business, visionaries of technology, ground-breakers in business, and remarkable leaders who make a difference in our community.
Women in Technology (WIT) announced the winners of its annual Women of the Year in Technology Awards, presented by The Coca-Cola Company, at its WIT Awards dinner held last Thursday night at the Georgia Aquarium.
WIT's Women of the Year Awards gathers top members of Georgia's STEAM community to recognize and announce the Women of the Year for their accomplishments as leaders in business, visionaries of technology, ground-breakers in business, and remarkable leaders who make a difference in our community.
One winner from each category, representing Non-Profit Organization, Small/Emerging Organization, Medium/Mid-Size Organization and Educational Institution, and Large/Enterprise Organization was selected.
NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION CATEGORY WINNER:
Michelle Coward Wells, Lead Physicist, Piedmont Healthcare
SMALL/EMERGING CATEGORY WINNER:
Annie Eaton, CEO, Futurus
MEDIUM/MID-SIZE ORGANIZATION & EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION CATEGORY WINNER:
Sherry Farrugia, Chief Operating and Strategy Officer, GT/CHOA Pediatric Technology Center
LARGE/ENTERPRISE CATEGORY WINNER:
Diana Lee Caplinger, Chief Administrative Officer, Consumer Technology, SunTrust Banks, Inc.
For more information about the Women of the Year winners, click here.
Also presented at the event:
WIT Girl of the Year Award
Medinah Allah, a sophomore at Ayo Aby Academy, was recognized with the WIT Girl of the Year Award which is sponsored by Scintel Technologies along with a $2,500 scholarship from Scintel and a $2,500 scholarship from State Farm.
Allah, an active member of the WIT Girls program, is a sophomore at Ayo Aby Academy.
She is the lead engineer of Eve, an all-girl robotics team and hopes to study mechatronics or mechanical engineering in college.
For the second consecutive year, each Girl of the Year runner up was presented with a $1,000 scholarship from Mercedes-Benz, an AT&T smartphone and a laptop from Dell.
The WIT Girl of the Year award was created in 2012 as part of WIT's commitment to support the entire lifecycle of a woman's career in technology, and is presented annually as part of the Women of the Year in Technology Awards. The WIT Girl of the Year is always a middle or high school girl who is recognized as the Girl of the Year for her participation in the WIT Girls program.
About Women in Technology (WIT)
Women in Technology (WIT) empowers and educates women and girls about opportunities in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) by educating middle and high school girls, and young women in college, and by sharing the stories of successful professional women in STEAM. Our team of more than 300 volunteers delivers professional development and networking opportunities to our more than 3,000 professionals, and programs at no cost to more than 1,500 students. From the classroom to the boardroom, WIT is committed to bringing the best STEAM content and programming to women and girls in Georgia.
SOURCE Women In Technology
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