5 hackathons in 5 departments with the Coding Girls
Coding Girls, the educational programme that helps young women and students orient themselves in the professions of the future and STEAM subjects, alights in Palermo for the third time. For its tenth anniversary, Coding Girls and the great educational alliance that promotes will involve, only in the spring of 2024, 11 universities in a tour to drive orientation and focus on various subjects with coaches and university students helping upper secondary school students.
The appointment at the University of Palermo, on April 23, will features five challenges in as many university departments: Physics and Chemistry – Emilio Segrèì; Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science; Business, Economics, and Statistics; Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, a unique development for the project. The initiative, entitled A Passion for Steam, was resolutely pursued by Beatrice Pasciuta, Deputy Rector for Inclusion, Equal Opportunities, and Gender Policy. The following challenges have been organised: Metaverse for Chemistry, Secure Communications, Coding with Apps, Coding with Arduino, Data Science, and Coding with Python.
The alliance, led by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, involves schools, families, universities, companies, and public and private organizations, with the patronage of the US Diplomatic Mission to Italy and the active collaboration of Microsoft, Fondazione Compagnia di SanPaolo and ING Italia. Moreover, the Vodafone Foundation and Roboteco Italargon have also joined the alliance this year. Thanks to this transversal alliance, after involving around 15 thousand female students in more than 30 Italian cities and over 33 universities in the last edition alone, the programme provides young people with the opportunity to meet role models from the academic and corporate worlds, to be inspired by their stories, and to discover new career opportunities and areas.
The five challenges will be held in parallel in the five university departments and follow at common agenda:
- 09.30 Welcome and Introduction
- 10.00 Launch of challenge
- 10.15 Collaborative work by teams
- 14.00 Delivery of projects
- 14.45 Elevator pitches and jury evaluation
- 16.00 Awards
Here are the speakers who will participate in each challenge:
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY | CODING WITH ARDUINO
- Luisa Amenta, Deputy Rector for the Right to Study and Innovation of Learning Processes
- Salvatore Miccichè, Department of Physics and Chemistry, Emilio Segrè UNIPA
- Valentina Gelsomini, Technical Infrastructure and Educational Resources Manager, Fondazione Mondo Digitale
- Dario Zarcone, PhD student, UNIPA
- Claudio Fazio
- Sara Anselmo
- Giuseppe Sancataldo
- Alice Sciortino
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY | METAVERSE FOR CHEMISTRY
- Luisa Amenta, Deputy Rector for the Right to Study and Innovation of Learning Processes
- Vincenzo Arizza, STEBICEF Director
- Delia F. Chillura Martino, STEBICEF Department Unipa & ATEN Centre UNIPA
- Renato Lombardo, STEBICEF Department UNIPA
- Antonella Maggio, STEBICEF Department UNIPA
- Valentina Gelsomini, Technical Infrastructure and Educational Resources Manager, Fondazione Mondo Digitale
- Massimo G. Palma, Director DiFC
- Patrizia Cancemi, STEBICEF Orientation Delegate
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS, BUSINESS, AND STATISTICS | PARADOXES IN STATISTICS
- Massimo Attanasio, National Coordinator, PLS Statistica
- Chiara Di Maria, SEAS UNIPA Department
- Angelo Mineo, Director, SEAS
- Michele Tumminello, Unipa
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING | SECURE COMMUNICATIONS
- Beatrice Pasciuta, Deputy Rector for Inclusion, Equal Opportunities, and Gender Policy, UNIPA
- Alessandra De Paola, Department of Engineering, UNIPA
- Marco La Cascia, Department of Engineering, UNIPA
- Monica Guizzardi, Fondazione Mondo Digitale Coach
- Antonino Valenza, Director, DING
- G. La Scalia, Didactics Delegate, DING
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE | DEVELOPING AN APP WITH CODE.ORG
- Stefana Milioto, Deputy Rector for Quality, Development, and Relations with Departments, UNIPA
- Simona Ester Rombo, Coordinator Computer Science Curse Programmes
- Cecilia Stajano, Community Coordinator, Fondazione Mondo Digitale
- Manuela Flores, DMI Department
- Roberto Livrea, Director, DMI
- Fabio Bellavia
- Manuela Flores
- Arianna Pavone
