We start each day by asking our attendees to complete the sentence:

I’m geeky because…

• I’m obsessed with things.
• I want to change the world.
• I attend wonderful geek conference and read up on tech in my leisure time.
• I encourage women with me to be an integral part of the future of computer technology.
• I am always reading tech journals.
• I love tech.
• I help women conquer imposter syndrome.
• I write code. I taught calculus for 10 years, I <3 sci fi. I design games. I design software.
• Pointers excite me.
• I have been hooked on computers since I was 2 years old and didn’t know that “Windows” were actual things outside of the computer screen.
• Video games are more important than sleep.
• I <3 learning.
• I love to take things apart and sometimes put them back together.
• I like geeky things like technology, science fiction, games and space travel.
• I never give up.
• I know asymmetric routing can cause problems in a production environment.
• I like tweaking and changing things to see how they would behave differently.
• I tell fantastic chemistry jokes, math puns and code in my free time.
• I like computers.
• I sing along to Disney while coding.
• I love to learn and create.
• I’m excited about World Game Jam 2014.
• I believe I can make a difference and that excites me there is nothing in the world more valuable than education.
• I am a registered nurse get to do computerized charting.
• I want to see where computer science and anthropology cross paths.
• I know how to run full car non-linear finite element analyses for crash and safety.
• I prefer IRC to Facebook!
• I am passionate and knowledgeable about video… and because I am raising two geeky girls.
• I love coding.
• I love computer science puns.
• I’ve been programing for many decades and love all kinds of computers and crafts and so on.
• I <3 STEM jokes!
• I like computers and science.
• I’ve always been geeky!
• I want to change the world around me one technology move at a time. For example building teams of engineers that build beautiful products that change the world.
• I see everything as a multi-variable constraint problem.
• Women make the most purchasing decisions and we need to invert/design/build what we know is needed.
• I wrote my thesis on extraterrestrial literature.
• I stress out over coming up with perfect “I’m geeky because…” phrases.
• I went back to work as a software engineer after 15 years home with my kids.
• I like Star Trek. My family is geeky. I want to be a brain surgeon.
• My father and his father were engineers. So am I and my sister.
• I love technology.
• I really miss programming the Apple II.
• I <3 to write scripts that do the work for me!
• I use technology in ways it wasn’t’ originally intended.
• I love building and breaking stuff!
• I make telescopes and write astronomy programs.
• Innovative technology excites me — especially if it offers a solution.
• I ma on a journey of self discovery as a female engineer. I am living the experiences in order to one day write about it.
• I’m a PhD in management and still study it and practice it in IT.
• I find everything fascinating. I discovered my geekhood at 11 when I used the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the depth of a corner cabinet.
• I’m good at math!
• At 55 as I sent my daughter off to college I headed back home to the Bay Area to return to tech and learn how to create mobile apps. My goal is to travel from 1995 – 2014 in six months.
• Last night I figured out how to send SysRq to a virtual machine.
• I am trying to do Kanban for one!
• I’d rather be coding than sleeping.
• I teach and build with Lego.
• I’m trying to learn product management on my own.
• I love coding.
• I thought seeing the NASA building driving here was the coolest sh*t ever.
• I get excited solving problems to make life easier for others.
• I like making my life easy!
• I can do hex arithmetic in my head.
• I like “divide by zero” jokes.
• I’m geeky because science fiction inspired me to become an engineer.
• I’m passionate about variety of new technologies and their effect upon change in the world.
• I’m passionate about product excellence and forwarding product leaders and using technology to serve.
• I am aware of the inter relation of things that are relatively unseen by the ruling paradigm. I am interested in the creativity of all things.
• Always want to improve and engineer a better way of doing things. Always!
• My parents bought an Apple II compatible and a programming book when I was 6 and I loved it.
• I am always curious and learning “stuff”
• Curiosity and creativity are my traits.
• Baby I was born this way!
• When I learn about something I want to do it and make it and dominate it.
• It is a mixture of both mental and practical and is ever changing.
• I work with engineers because I want to be one!
• I want to learn everything about how people interact with computer graphics and information.
• I spend more time playing video games than my boyfriend.
• I think the US Government Open Data Policy was the coolest things to happen last year.
• I am open about what I love, and am still looking for a fez.
• I wrote a tech book.
• Do I need a reason?
• I read books about statistics for fun and I want to learn more about computer programming to make a difference in the world.
• I’m always asking “how does that work?” and “how can we make this work better?”
• I did not embrace my inner nerd in school and now it’s time to let her out.
• I make and wear resistor jewelry.
• I automate my home AUTOMATE EVERYTHING!
• I love decisions analysis so much my mind is forever blooming with a forest of decision trees.
• I have a life science and software engineering background.
• I fall in love with innovation sand technologies that makes the world a better place by improving people’s live in a positive way.
• I like challenges and would like to inspire and get inspired some people around me.
• I teach my kids binary.
• My first crush was Spock.
• I love innovation technology science curiosity wonder.
• I love to code!
• I work in tech.
• I like to fly planes.
• I love to study computer science.
• I have read every Harry Potter books 10 times and have match pick up lines.
• I sometimes get too curious about everything.
• I was singing “Kernel Panic! Kernel Panic!” while I took my shower.
• The world gets more interesting the more you know how it works.
• Because science and tech are beautiful.