After intensive training sessions in school throughout the city (ITE R.Piria-G.Ferraris-A.Da Empoli, LSS Da Vinci, LCS Campanella, IIS Righi, Convitto nazionale Campanella), 120 students, guided by American super coach Anthonette Peña, National Board Certified Teacher and STEM Teacher Lead, participated in a hackathon at the Mediterranean University in Reggio Calabria.
The Coding Girls, 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.
Here are the projects elected by the jury, including two special mentions. The focus of the 18-team hackathon was "Re-thinking Reggio Calabria".
1st Place
Team Res Secundae - Liceo Campanella
Gabriele Martino 16, Alessandra Carella 17, Emanuela Guadalupe Spanò 16
Title: Rhegion 3.0
Description: The protagonist is a girl who doesn’t want to leave her city. She creates a website to come up with solutions for her city together with her friends
2nd Place
Team Coolturisti - Liceo Da Vinci
Annamaria Foti 15 (team leader)
Title: Choose Your City
Description: Interactive story based on what Reggio could be like if different choices had been made. Based on true facts.
3rd Place
Team Ceccarini - LS Da Vinci
Gaia Vizza 16 (team leader), Raffaele Pangallo 16, Letizia Priolo 16, Giorgio Benedetto 16
Title: Tideo's Revolution
Description: One of the Bronze sculptures narrates the history of the city and looks for solutions to improve it.
Special Mentions
Team Fantastici 3 - Liceo Campanella
Silvia Tommaso 17 (team leader), Federica Barilla' 17, Emanuele Umbro 17
Title: The Ideal State
Description: Awareness-raising and civic education for citizens.
Team Memento Mori - Liceo Campanella
Viktoriya Fenchak 16, Vittoria Maccarrone 17, Nicole Polimeni 17, Lidia Polimeni 16, Brigida Martina Plutino 17
Title: ReGreen
Description: For a greener Reggio …
