G. Ayorkor Korsah  

(G. Ayorkor Mills-Tettey)

Education & Outreach

Other Endeavors

Conferences and Workshops

Talks & Presentations

I am working with Nii Simonds, Henry Barnor and Nana Manu to develop a robotics workshop and competition for students in Ghana and other parts of Africa.  A pre-pilot version of the hands-on workshop, using Lego robot kits, was held as part of the MakerFaire Africa event in Accra in 2009, and was very well received.  Stay tuned for future plans.

Panel (with Rahul Tongia) “Information, Computing, and Communications: Keys to Sustainable Global Development,” AAAS Annual Meeting, Science and Technology from a Global Perspective, Boston, February 17, 2008.

Presentation (with Ling Xu) “Robots to Reading: Impacting the World with Technology,” SciTech Spectacular 2007, Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2007

Panelist, “Innovations and Education In Development,” 13th Annual International Development Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, April 2007

Keynote address (with Carol Sisson and Eakta Jain), Cisco Networking Academy “Girls get IT” event, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, March 2007

Panelist, “Ripple Effects: Increasing the Diversity of Creators and Consumers of Computing Technology”, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, San Diego MA, October 2006.

Afrobotics

I have actively participated in the outreach activities of the Women@SCS organization at Carnegie Mellon.  We give talks or roadshows to middle and high school students, exposing them to what computer science is about, and encouraging them to study it.   It’s always fun to talk to young people about the exciting opportunities in computer science.

Women@SCS

I am currently serving as a mentor for an all-girls high-school FIRST Robotics Team, co-sponsored by the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University

I served as a judge for the Middle Eastern Regional Botball competition held at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, in April 2010.

With colleagues, I organized a robotics workshop for high school students in the Technology Leadership Institute, a summer program held at the University of Pittsburgh, in 2007.

Other Robotics Workshops and Competitions

I attended the week-long Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center summer school in July 2009, focusing on the “Intelligent Tutors” track.  I learned a lot about intelligent tutors, and learned how to use the authoring tools developed by the PSLC to create an example-tracing tutor and a cognitive tutor.  My project focused on teaching English grammar.  I will be attending again in July 2010, this time focusing on the “Educational Data Mining” track.

Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center Summer School (2009,2010)

Here I list a few talks I have given that are not captured in the publications list.

Here I list a few interesting or noteworthy conferences and workshops that I have benefited from as an attendee, and that are not captured in the publications or talks lists.

Here I list a few activities I am involved in, aimed at raising up the next generation of innovative technologists.

I was awarded a TEDGlobal Fellowship to attend TEDGlobal 2007: “Africa: the next chapter”, in Arusaha, Tanzania.  This was an inspiring event that brought together speakers including entrepreneurs, scientists, activists, etc, from all over Africa to highlight some of the exciting and promising developments on the continent, and to talk about the future of Africa.

TEDGlobal (2007)