Candy Chiang and her proud teacher,
Barbara Cummins

We asked Candy about her school and involvement with IGNITE:

"I'm currently a senior at Ingraham High School, and have been a member of IGNITE for almost three years. I find that IGNITE is actually a very valuable opportunity for young women nowadays to explore the high-tech field. I completed Cisco Networking for all four semesters, In addition, I also took computer classes such as web design, networking essential, and computer applications. I am a graduate from the IT Academy at my current school and interned with Microsoft during the summer of 2002."

The Winning Poster

Happy runner-up Axumawit Aragawi is pictured
here with teacher, Mary Davison

Runner-up Donesha Hall with teacher
Caroline Tertocha

Donesha Hall is 18 years old and a senior at Nathan Hale High School. In the future Donesha wants to be an architect desiging residential homes and other buildings.

Two talented runners-up from Franklin High School,
Grace Xie (left) and Martha Flores

When asked what her poster represtented, 10th Grader Martha replied:

"The name of my poster is 'In the Library.' My friend and I are in the library. We are using the computers and my friend is the one standing up helping me. While I am daydreaming of how technology will help me in the future to become successful by getting a really good job. My friend is thinking how IGNITE inspires her, the speakers that come to speak to us about their successful jobs."

Grace Xie had this to say about her entry:

"The poster you see here, is about a bunch of girls at a computer program. About 1 out of 15 of them were paying attention to the speaker explaining about the different parts of the computer. The one whom is participating is, as you can tell, very interested on technology. When she grew up, her career was related to computers and she grew successful because of this knowledge."