[[File:Sami.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Sami.jpg]]Sami Glass is a Computer Science student at Kent State University. She currently attends a satellite campus called Kent State Stark. Sami is an officer in the Computer Club at Stark campus and a member of a computer club called Hacksu on Kent campus. She was born is the Google student Ambassador for Kent State University, helping connect students with resources and raised in Missouri opportunities at Google. === Current Projects === Sami co-leads a student organization called HacKSU at Kent state, where they teach coding skills and moved different technologies to Akron Ohio in 2013students of all majors and backgrounds. She spent five years also organizes Kent State's annual Hackathon called Kent Hack Enough, where students from all over come to create tech projects to present at the end of the weekend for prizes. Sami also mentors the Kent Girl Coders, a middle/high school coding club at Stanton Middle school. Promoting women in computing is an effort that is extremely important to her life . She volunteers as an assistant webmaster for Ohio's Women in Computing, and will also give a server/host talk at Cracker Barrel the 2017 meeting on promoting college students to start Girl Coding clubs. Academically Sami is conducting research on front-end development of an application for a virtual advising system for students that will help assist them on taking courses to meet goals and trained new employees in their respective positionsgain skills, instead of just taking courses to gain degrees. One of Sami's side projects is working with Learning Streams International, a water conservation and egology bootcamp for High school students. She now spends assists with creating a web presence for the Bootcamp while also acting as a Near Peer Mentor. In Fall 2016 Sami presented an application for water conservation in Brazil at the Mission OneLife competition, gaining third place with her college days attending hackathons and learning new thingsteam's "SenseUrWater" application.
=== Less Important things... ===
Sami's hobbies include drawing, watching cooking shows, reading (Like the Dexter seriesSocial awareness books, selfcomedy, weird books? Mostly non-help books, and Freakanomicsfiction), and Netflix (Who doesn't like NetflixsNetflix?) In her free time she enjoys her Xbox, and MMORPGs (basically online games). She also enjoys creating/coding profiles for online communities (like GaiaOnline).
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[[Kent State University|Kent State University]]
[[Kent State University Strategic Priorities|Kent State University Strategic Priorities]]
University Innovation Fellows:
[[Robin Bonatesta|Robin Bonatesta]]Spring 2016
[[Matthew Allen|Matthew AllenJag Ashcraft]]
[[Sravan Kumar Karpurapu|Sravan Kumar KarpurapuBrad Baumeister]]
[[Tapti Saha|Tapti Saha]]Fall 2015:
[[Kristen Boye|Kristine Boye]]
[[Paul Dilyard|Paul Dilyard]]
'''Samantha Glass''' [[Sami GlassIan Reede|Samantha GlassIan Reede]] Spring 2015: '''Matthew Allen''' [[Sravan Kumar Karpurapu]] [[Tapti Saha]]
'''Ian Reede'''Fall 2014: [[Robin Bonatesta|Robin Bonatesta]]
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