The Coding Girls Educational Tour is in Pistoia. 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 will be held on November 5-22 and will involve 10,000 young women in 14 Italian cities.
After the intensive training sessions held in city schools (P. Petrocchi and F. Pacini), 80 students, coordinated by American super coach Anthonette Peña, National Board Certified Teacher and STEM Teacher Lead, participated yesterday in a hackathon at the San Giorgio Library in Pistoia. The theme of the challenge was “She kept going, then...”
Here are the results of the fifth creative programming marathon held as part of the Coding Girls Educational Tour.
1st Place – ex aequo
Team Le Vere Pitagora - IIS Petrocchi
Gargano Gaia, Boccardi Eleonora, Caputo Sara
Project: The Pride of Being a Woman
Description: The project begins with a projection of images of women who have fought - and continue to do so – for equal rights, by showing the short story of a girl who grows up in a bad environment in which her mother is forced to do housework and give up her ambitions. The project continues with the girl achieving her work projects, fighting against the closed mentality of society and criticising it, using her mother and other women treated in the same manner as examples.
Team The Smurfs - IIS Pacini
Tumminia Marta 15 anni, Gaia Serio 16 anni, Anna Folino 15 anni, Jacopo Tesi 15 anni
Project: Fairytale Love
Description: We initially turned down a series of ideas in a brainstorming session, but this gave us the inspiration for our story about a princess called Dafne who had a precious life and was in love with a handsome prince. However, there was something or better someone, the evil Morgana, who wanted to steal her prince. So, at the end of the story, the Fata Morgana achieves her objective, destroys the dream of the princess and runs away with the prince.
2nd Place
Team CIC - IIS Pacini
Chiara Vezzosi 15 anni, Alessia Ricotti 15 anni, Irene Cianferoni 16 anni, Giulia Innocenti 15 anni
Project: World Blesses Greta
Description: We were inspired by the true story of Greta Thunberg and pollution. We used Scratch to develop the project. Our objective was to raise the awareness of people on Greta’s project and help the world to be reborn.
3rd Place
Team TeenagersOriginal - IIS Pacini
Sara Cardelli, Irene Cappellini, Linda Spataro, Asia Agostini, Stefano Gargini. Tutte di 15 anni
Description: a girl wants to travel abroad as she is interested in languages. She goes to college in Americ, where she meets students with whom she studies English.
The Coding Girls Educational Tour is in Pistoia. 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 will be held on November 5-22 and will involve 10,000 young women in 14 Italian cities.
