Ivonne Lopez, a student at College of the Canyons, has been awarded a $1,500  Women in Technology Scholarship, the first of its kind offered by Zonta Club of Santa Clarita Valley and  Zonta International.  In keeping with society’s advancing technology,  ZI has created this scholarship to encourage women to pursue careers that support technical achievement world-wide.

Ivonne’s educational goals are to obtain her Accredited Associates Degree from COC, and pursue her bachelor’s and master’s degree in Computer Science.  She states that she has “structured her professional goals to be organic and flexible to change”.  She wants to  be involved with a number of projects that aim to combat climate change and accumulate  the knowledge necessary  to follow  the most efficient path in truly making a difference with  a  life goal to combat climate change.

Ivonne  plans to develop software for the public education of energy consumption,develop robust predictive software using machine learning, help develop more customized software for collaborative research, and use data analytics to optimize the efficiency of sustainable energies such as wind, tidal, geothermal, solar, nuclear, etc. The algorithms are limitless!

A recipient of several prior  scholarships, Ivonne is Secretary for the Math Engineering Science Achievement program at COC and she is starting a campus club that will serve to help others through fundraising to help girls obtain an education in underdeveloped countries.  This is a perfect fit for Zonta.

Zonta Club is proud to honor this vivacious young woman with this scholarship to assist her as she journeys through obtaining her education and life’s goals.  Ivonne’s application will be forward to Zonta District 9 for consideration of $2,000 and a potential$8,000 awarded from Zonta International – a total of $11,500.

Congratulations Ivonne!