Computer Science – Open Hearts Big Dreams

Advice from a OHBD CS Grad: Let’s build a future that the next generation will be thankful for

Ellenore Angelidis — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:00:49 +0000

In late 2020, we were awarded a grant from the American Corners to run Computer Science and Entrepreneurship Boot Camps along with a series of leadership talks. It was the most challenging of environments with conflict and the virus each presenting what seemed like insurmountable challenges. The OHBD team had to consistently reinvent and reimagine to support our students from Dire Dawa…

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Global Emerging Leadership in Action: OHBD CS Graduate in Ethiopia Supporting LJL Founded by High School Junior in Seattle

Ellenore Angelidis — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:19:16 +0000

I am an incoming High School Junior, founder of Linguistics Justice League (LJL) and a Youth Board Member of Invest in Youth. I have been working at the intersection of Data Science, NLP and ML, earning a Society of Women Engineers Next (SWE) STEM in Action award, National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) award and a publication in the Journal of Student Research.

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Open Hearts Big Dreams – Five Years into the Organizational Journey

Ellenore Angelidis — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 19:24:32 +0000

In 2016, I started the process of taking Open Hearts Big Dreams from the fundraising event we started in 2011 to a full-fledged not-for-profit. I was inspired by our amazing daughter and the opportunities we saw to contribute after funding and expanding a library in her birth-town of Bahir Dar (pictured here). That year was spent recruiting board members, filing state and federal paperwork…

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OHBD’s Leadership Focus Creates Our Newest Leaders

Ellenore Angelidis — Thu, 27 May 2021 02:43:02 +0000

It was a big month for Open Hearts Big Dreams. We had our best GiveBIG effort ever – thank you to all who matched, gave, or shared! None of this work is possible without the funding we receive through these types of efforts! We hosted our first locally-focused workshop event organized and led by our team in Addis, Dr. Worku Mulat, Yoseph Ayalew, and Netsanet Kassahun. We were honored to have a…

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OHBD Launches Award Program

Ellenore Angelidis — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 08:54:23 +0000

We are excited to launch our OHBD Big Dreams Heroes and Leaders in Literacy, Innovation, and Inclusion Awards to recognize their invaluable contributions. These volunteers and supporters are heroes and leaders in the truest sense of the words. They exemplify our mission of empowering youth to transform their futures and follow our tenets to accomplish the objectives. They consistently challenge us…

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Love of computer games leads to Computer Science education & leadership

Ellenore Angelidis — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:42:40 +0000

I faintly remember how I would stress over finding the right way to ask for a guest’s phone to play games with, whenever there was an event in our house. My good aunties would just give it to me, with nice a pat on the back, while the “Petunia Dursleys” stressed over tricking me to stop my annoying nag, without having to give their device: win-win for them. Luckily, I do not remember ever being…

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Computer Science Boot Camp: Where Rigor Inspires Growth

Ellenore Angelidis — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 20:37:49 +0000

The hardest thing to overcome in computer science is intimidation. When you try to enter the field as a beginner, it feels like a foreign territory. I remember thinking “I would love to learn programming.” I also remember thinking “Do I belong in this field?”, “Am I good enough?”. I spent so much time wondering instead of actually exploring. The more I wondered, the more anxious I got.

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Why I volunteer for the OHBD | American Embassy CS Boot Camp

Ellenore Angelidis — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 21:08:26 +0000

My name is Abebe Amare and I am an undergraduate student at Duke University studying Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering. I have always appreciated how chains of opportunities brought me here and how the opportunity I have at Duke takes me to the next stage of my life. Opportunities are the fragments of chains that build the life path of successful people. I was born in a…

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