IT Community Shows Support and Raises More than $29,000 in Scholarships during ITWomen's "CIO Celebrity Poker Tournament & Casino Night" Fund-raiser.MIAMI Miami, cities, United States Miami (mīăm`ē, –ə). 1 City (1990 pop. 358,548), seat of Dade co., SE Fla., on Biscayne Bay at the mouth of the Miami River; inc. 1896. -- South Florida's information technology community stepped out for a night of casino playing action to show its support for ITWomen's annual scholarship drive. ITWomen, a South Florida organization dedicated to the advancement and development of women in technology, held its 3rd annual fund-raising drive Noun 1. fund-raising drive - a campaign to raise money for some cause fund-raising campaign, fund-raising effort crusade, campaign, cause, drive, effort, movement - a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported themed, "CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. Celebrity Poker Tournament A poker tournament is a tournament in which the winners are decided by playing poker, usually a particular style of poker. Contrast this to a ring game, where the game is ongoing with no formal structure to determine a single winner in a certain length of time. & Casino Night
A Casino Night (also called Vegas Nights, Las Vegas Night, Monte Carlo Night) is an entertainment event with a casino theme. ." The grand event took place on Nov. 16, 2006 at the Sheraton/Ft. Lauderdale. Thanks to the funds raised that evening, seven high school graduating women pursuing careers in technology will be awarded scholarships in early 2007. More than 200 IT professionals, educators and C-level executives mingled and played casino games and poker for prize chips at the event sponsored by Citrix Systems Citrix Systems' (NASDAQ: CTXS) is an American technology company, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with subsidiary operations in California and Massachusetts, with additional development centers in Australia, India and the UK. , Deloitte, QUALCOMM, Robert Half Technology, Cordis, Jobing.com, Maroone, Momentum Consulting Group, S3, Ser-Mar Printing and Graphics and Business Wire. The mood was Vegas-style complete with Rat Pack music and an Elvis impersonator. ITWomen invited top South Florida CIOs to join a Texas Hold'em Poker tournament to celebrate the past two scholarship drives. The CIOs participating included: Bill Hicks, Ultimate Software; Carrie O[sup.3]Brien, Cordis; Pat Smith, Steifel Laboratories; Oliver Waite for Doug Watson, Bacardi; Eric Lozano, BankUnited; Guy Desautels, Citrix; Ina Kamenz, Tyco; Joyce Vonada, AutoNation; Kevin Quinlivan, NCL NCL Norwegian Cruise Line NCL New Caledonia (ISO Country code) NCL National Consumers League (Washington, DC) NCL Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis (adult type) ; Karl Herlaman, Miami Dade College Miami Dade College is one of Florida's public colleges, located in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It is run by the College's Board of Trustees, appointed by the governor of Florida, whose chair is Helen Aguirre Ferré, a bilingual journalist. ; Mike Sutten, Royal Caribbean; Myles Cyr, Carnival Cruises; Patrick Doliny, Broward Sheriff's Office The Broward County Sheriff's Office, commonly known by the acronym BSO, is a public safety organization responsible for law enforcement and fire rescue duties within Broward County, Florida. ; and Raj Rawal, Burger King. Several South Florida businesses also made it an evening of networking and teambuilding. Among those represented included Burger King, Citrix, Cordis, Deloitte, Miami Dade College, and DeVry University. As a result of the scholarship drives, ITWomen has raised more than $60,000 in scholarships the past three years. Following this year's event, with the 7 additional recipients obtaining scholarships, a total of 15 female high school seniors selected from Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties will have benefited from ITWomen's fund-raising efforts. "The scholarship drive and ITWomen's Role Models Outreach initiative is part of ITWomen's mission to increase the number of girls entering technology fields," said Victoria Usherenko, president of ITWomen and founder of Liaison Search Associates, an executive search firm. "The Role Models program, showcased during the casino night, engages professionals to speak to young ladies ages 8 through 18. These professionals share their own personal experiences and career paths." About ITWomen ITWomen is the premiere South Florida organization dedicated to the advancement, advocacy, and development of women professionals in technology. ITWomen is an action-oriented, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to raise awareness of professional women who have significantly contributed in the area of technology and related industries. For more information, visit www.itwomen.org. |
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