My name is Bethany Davis and I'm a junior at the University of Pennsylvania studying Computer Science with a minor in Consumer Psychology. I'm passionate about advancing women in STEM fields and teaching computer science.
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Teaching Assistant - CIS 120 (Programming Languages & Techniques I) @ • Plan and teach weekly recitations for 20 students to review course material and solve example problems
• Host weekly office hours for 250 students to discuss course concepts and debug homework assignments
• Grade Java and OCaml programming projects for style, testing, and efficiency
• Discuss course trajectory and vision at weekly staff meetings
• Contribute to supplemental teaching material such as worksheets, lab exercises, and quizzes
• Respond to student questions on Piazza From August 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) Engineering Practicum Intern @ Google Apps Script (www.script.google.com)
• Designed, implemented, and tested a backend service that provides script performance graphs to improve user experience for over 12 million users
• Fixed over 30 bugs and contributed over 2,000 lines of code to team codebase
• Won Best Showcase of API and Best Overall Project in cross-team product hackathon
• Attended Google Women in Engineering conference in Mountain View, CA (Global HQ); participated in Foundations of Leadership and Teamwork (FLT) workshop
Technologies used: Java, JavaScript, Mockito, JUnit, Guice, protocol buffers, gRPC From May 2015 to August 2015 (4 months) Greater New York City AreaCollege Code Camp @ • One of 20 female engineers selected from over 500 applicants to attend a four-day immersion program in Silicon Valley
• Attended leadership sessions with CFO Sarah Friar, CEO Jack Dorsey and Engineering Lead Alyssa Henry
• Participated in programming workshops on iOS, Android, and open-sourcing
• Received the hackathon grand prize for a photo-editing web application written in JavaScript From August 2014 to August 2014 (1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaResidential Teaching Advisor @ • Mentored 50 high school students in a rigorous three-week, college-level computer science curriculum
• Prepared coursework and provided supplemental classroom instruction in Python syntax and computer science fundamentals
• Conducted study sessions and hosted office hours each evening
• Planned extracurricular activities and excursions to expose program participants to college life and the Philadelphia area From June 2014 to August 2014 (3 months)
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science @ University of Pennsylvania From 2013 to 2017 Solon High School From 2009 to 2013 Bethany Davis is skilled in: Java, Teaching, OCaml, Objective-C, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Computer Science, HTML, JavaScript, Unix, PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Unix Shell Scripting, Object Oriented Design, Data Structures
Websites:
http://www.bethanytdavis.com