CoderGirlHackDay on International Day of the Girl

👉 Related to event: Coder Girl Hack Day to Celebrate Inter­national Day of the Girl

Thanks to our supporters

A huge thank you to everyone who were involved, helped out, supported and most of all to all the young women who came along and made it a fantastic day!

We even had Silicon Republic and CCTV (China News) doing a bit of coverage. Here's CCTV's feature of the event: http://english.cntv.cn/2015/10/11/VIDE1444545001184268.shtml

The awesome Ann O'Dea opened the event.

And look at all the ambitions on @InspirefestHQ's Ambition wall!

There was a competition for a guardian and a child to attend Inspirefest 2016

And congrats to the winners:

Looky, that's me with my ambition (it was hard to think of one, there's so many, but I picked the one that really meant something to me at the very moment in time)!

There were three awesome hack events running in parallel, Fungus Story-telling Workshop, Making music with SonicPi and Making a Lighthouse with TOG.

Here's a write-up from TOG of the day: http://www.tog.ie/2015/10/lighthouses-at-coder-girl-hack-day/

Python Workshop for Adults

The adult Python workshop was postponed till after lunch and there was a few technical hitches with getting the borrowed laptops from Coder Dojo to be set up, by the time we were ready, I didn't realise I only had 50 minutes left to go through 2.5 hours content.

We covered the following:

Since we ran out of time, I ran through what I could have covered if I had time, and a special script that was created by an attendee at the Python workshop at Inspirefest earlier this year with ascii art. See game_10_with_design.py.

For those who are curious, you can get the content by downloading "python-workshop.zip" from: https://bitbucket.org/codinggrace/python-project-workshop/downloads

If you are using a Windows machine, if you didn't say "Yes" during setup to set the environment variables for you, you will need to follow the instructions from this post.

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We trended on the day!

And if that is not enough, here's many of the tweets storified based on hash-tags, #codergirlsrock and #codergirlhackday, which the former trended for seven hours, how amazing is that!

Our final pic of the crazy and very fun day...

About Author

Vicky Twomey-Lee

Pythonista, but normally found organising various tech events, and now heavily involved in diversity initiatives like Coding Grace, PyLadies Dublin, and Women in Technology and Science (WITS Ireland).
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