The hackathon held yesterday at Sapienza University of Rome marked the end of the sixth edition of the Coding Girls Educational Tour that reached 14 cities, involving over 14,000 young women.
The Coding Girls 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 Rome hackathon pitted 115 students from 15 schools organised in 20 teams against each other. The challenge was coordinated by American super coaches Emily Bradford, independent writer and software developer based in Silicon Valley, and Anthonette Peña, National Board Certified Teacher and STEM Teacher Lead. The theme of the challenge was "Everything is possible".
Projects selected by the Jury
1st Place
Team PowerfulGirls - IIS Emanuela Loi, Nettuno
Claudia Lo Mascolo 18 (team leader), Alessandra Romei 18, Sara Pittiglio 17, Marica Scafarti 17
Title: Choices
Description: The past is shown side-by-side with the future and the audience has a choice: remain indifferent or do something. In both cases, everything is possible, but the audience decides what future it will be
2nd Place
Team Dream It, Make It Happen - IIS Lombardo Radice
Alexandra Dutu 16, Giulia Fortini 16, Claudia Bivolaru 17
Title: Believe It
Description: Achieve a dream notwithstanding the obstacles (what others say). Two people are told they cannot make their dream come true. A young woman on a wheelchair wants to play baseball but is told she can’t because it’s a. male sport. Another person witnesses the scene and convinces them to try …
3rd Place
Team CyberLadies - IIS Marconi, Civitavecchia
Giada Venturini 16 (team leader), Aurora Stefanini 16, Denisa Rotaru 18, Martina Miglietta 17, Chiara Gismondi 17, Roberta Moracchioli 17
Title:
Description: a game in which planet earth shoots at negative words to gain points. Learn to free the planet from negative behaviour.
