Yesterday, the Apple Developer Academy at the “Federico II” University of Naples, hosted over 100 young women working on a challenge dedicated to "How could you make a difference?" American super coach Emily Bradford, independent writer and software developer based in Silicon Valley coordinated the hackathon.
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 sixth edition will be held on November 5-22 and will involve 10,000 young women in 14 Italian cities.
Projects Selected by the Jury
1st Place
Team Abil.mente - Liceo G.B. Vico
Salvatore Scialò, Andrea Romano, Ludovica Cicoria, Martina Boccia, Alessandra Di Pietro.
Title: Abil.mente
Description: We decided to portray the difference that each one of us can make for pollution through a game that requires you to collect 10 items of waste to live in a cleaner world.
2nd Place
Team Girls power - Liceo Tito Lucrezio Caro
Francesca Federico 15, Federica Pastore 16, Valentina Teramo, Maria Caterina Venditti
Title: Be the Change
Description: We decided to address climactic change and how each one of us can help with small gestures and correctly influence others.
3rd Place
Team Almost programmers - Liceo Nitti
Bruna Martino, Emanuele Granito, Gabriel Bianco, Daria Fertikova (all 17)
Title: Almost Programmers
Description: A trip back in time to save the future.
