Betty Gronneberg

Bethlehem or Betty Gronneberg is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer of uCodeGirl, a social enterprise designed to inspire, engage and equip young women with leadership traits, computational thinking skills and an entrepreneurial mindset. uCodeGirl is known for working with young women to forge pathways to careers in technology – making sure women are included in 21st century jobs and tech-executive positions. Betty has a Masters of Science degree in Software Engineering from North
Dakota State University (NDSU). After 20+ years in the software industry and leading teams of software engineers, Betty was disheartened that her teams were missing something crucial – women. That’s when she shifted her career and founded uCodeGirl – the innovative driving force behind making girls intrigued and excited about developing technology solutions. Since then Betty has become a recipient of the prestigious Bush Foundation Leadership Fellowship. Betty currently serves on the Board of Directors for The Fargo chapter of the international Women in Technology association, and The Prairie Public Broadcasting Services. Betty speaks regularly at regional and national conferences and to companies about the challenges the industry currently faces on bringing young women into the technology space and the breakthrough methods uCodeGirl has discovered to entice and excite women to these vitally important career paths. Betty had received her Bachelors degree from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia in Statistics and Computer Science. Betty was working as the first webmaster for United Nations – Economic Commission for Africa before immigrating to United States. Bethlehem is also a childhood literacy adocate and has authored a children’s book about her native country, Ethiopia