Foshay Tech Students take 2nd and 3rd Place at WeHack2016 - After spending all day Saturday brushing up on programming and brainstorming ideas the students formed teams and worked with mentors from Sabio, a company that cultivates tech talent and planned the Hackathon.
The third place team, Fem Tech, was comprised of eight students who founded a coding club on Foshay’s campus that encourages women to code. They recently earned a Girls’ Build LA grant to plan activities to attract the interest of middle school girls into the fields of computer science and they presented their plans to the judges. Fem Tech gained the interest of Microsoft who donated interactive circuit boards and wants to create a webseries based on their girl centered tech events. The Fem Tech members are Valerie Nerio (President), Victoria Lopez, Diana Orellana, Adamaris Maldonado, Samantha Suarez, Luis Navarro, Angelica Vasquez and Gabriel Juarez.
The third place team, Fem Tech, was comprised of eight students who founded a coding club on Foshay’s campus that encourages women to code. They recently earned a Girls’ Build LA grant to plan activities to attract the interest of middle school girls into the fields of computer science and they presented their plans to the judges. Fem Tech gained the interest of Microsoft who donated interactive circuit boards and wants to create a webseries based on their girl centered tech events. The Fem Tech members are Valerie Nerio (President), Victoria Lopez, Diana Orellana, Adamaris Maldonado, Samantha Suarez, Luis Navarro, Angelica Vasquez and Gabriel Juarez.
GIRLS BUILD LA/GIRLS WHO CODE
"I can’t say enough about our Girls Build LA club this year and their leadership and dedication to CS awareness and access to other girls through workshops and positive messaging. After starting this semester with winning third place in a hackathon, they have hosted 5 Computer Science workshops to a group of middle school students and support a 4th grade girls coding club at Melrose Elementary.
Their leadership has started a movement on Foshay’s campus of interest in computer science. In April they brought 50 students to an engineering day at USC - half of those students were middle and high school girls who are interested in joining the Tech Academy when they are in 10th grade. We also had eight 10th graders attend a Hackathon at USC, and we have a list of girls who want to be invited to new Girls Who Code club events.
The leaders of the club have also won NCWIT Aspirations in Computing awards, attended a special event with the Mayor and Jessica Alba as part of the Women’s Leadership Series, they are all certified in HTML and JavaScript and four of the six founders have been offered summer internships.
For more information about the student projects or the Technology Academy at Foshay Learning Center, please contact Leslie Aaronson at [email protected]." - Leslie Aaronson
"I can’t say enough about our Girls Build LA club this year and their leadership and dedication to CS awareness and access to other girls through workshops and positive messaging. After starting this semester with winning third place in a hackathon, they have hosted 5 Computer Science workshops to a group of middle school students and support a 4th grade girls coding club at Melrose Elementary.
Their leadership has started a movement on Foshay’s campus of interest in computer science. In April they brought 50 students to an engineering day at USC - half of those students were middle and high school girls who are interested in joining the Tech Academy when they are in 10th grade. We also had eight 10th graders attend a Hackathon at USC, and we have a list of girls who want to be invited to new Girls Who Code club events.
The leaders of the club have also won NCWIT Aspirations in Computing awards, attended a special event with the Mayor and Jessica Alba as part of the Women’s Leadership Series, they are all certified in HTML and JavaScript and four of the six founders have been offered summer internships.
For more information about the student projects or the Technology Academy at Foshay Learning Center, please contact Leslie Aaronson at [email protected]." - Leslie Aaronson
