Today, Thursday, November 14, the 2019 Coding Girls Tour is in Salerno. After the intensive training sessions held in schools in the city and its province (LSS Sensale - Nocera Inferiore, ISIS Giovanni XXIII - Salerno, LSS Severi - Salerno, IIS Mancini - Avellino, IIS Imbriani - Avellino), 150 students, coordinated by American super coach Emily Bradford, independent writer and software developer based in Silicon Valley, will participate in a hackathon at the University of Salerno.
The programme, promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and the United States Embassy in Italy in collaboration with Microsoft Italy, aims to promote gender equality in science and technology. The sixth edition of the Girls Tour will be held on November 5-22 and will involve 10,000 young women in 14 Italian cities.
Girls Programming the Future
#Codingirls National Tour
Salerno, November 14, 2019 – 10:00 am – 6:30 pm
University of Salerno, Department of Computer Science
Building F3, Lecture Hall P1, Via Giovanni Paolo II n. 132
AGENDA
10.00 | WELCOME ADDRESS
- Filomena Ferrucci, President of the Computer Science Programme Committee, Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno
- Francesca Del Duca, Large Events Manager, Fondazione Mondo Digitale
10.10 | EXPERENTIAL TALK
- Emily Bradford, Independent writer and software developer based in Silicon Valley
10.30 | HACKATHON
5.00 | TEAM PITCHES
6.30 | AWARDS AND CONCLUSIONS
- Delfina Malandrino, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno
We would like to thank the University of Salerno for its collaboration.
The team of coaches at the delle formatrici at the University of Salerno is coordinated by Professors Filomena Ferrucci and Delfina Malandrino.
PRESS KIT
- Press Note
- Declarations
- Conference Programme
- Project Profile
- Coding Girls Hubs and Universities
- Coding Girls Association
- Stories
- Data on the Gender Gap
- Info-graphic
Tour Photo Gallery
