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International Women's Hackathon
Be part of something big and help change the world through innovation!
- Are you creative?
- Do you want to meet other creative women?
- Do you want to create technology innovations?
- Do you want to help solve world problems and make a difference?
- Do you want to have fun and try something new?
If you answered yes to any of the questions, then come join young people on university campuses all over the world for the International Women’s Hackathon during Engineering Week, sponsored by Microsoft Research, National Center for Women & Information Technology, Association for Computing Machinery Committee on Women, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Women in Engineering, Microsoft Imagine Cup, and Skype!
You don’t have to be a techie to become a producer of innovation solutions. Help us inspire and support women to start the next Microsoft, Facebook, or Google. Join us April 25–27 at ADP Center in University Hall.
Who can join?
- Young women students 16 years or older as team members and participants.
- Young girls as junior supporters.
- Young men students as peer supporters.
- Alumni and members of the community as advisors and mentors.
- Alumni and industry experts as judges.
Teams will include of all skill levels–we need diversity of thought to grow the innovation pipeline! It will be a great weekend to learn, invent, and create the future.
The event will be simultaneously broadcast through Skype on campuses around the world, so you can meet women not only on our campus but also across the world. A surprise celebrity guest will deliver the virtual keynote presentation. All participants will receive a Microsoft water bottle and winning teams Skype minutes and have their pitch video published on the Microsoft Research webpage. In addition, if the winning application is a Microsoft solution it will be published in the Microsoft Store
If you have questions, please send email to: bryann@mail.montclair.edu.
Mentors of Diversity of Thought, Social Innovation, and Empowerment of Women and Youth at MSU.
Dr. Nicole Bryan, School of Business
Dr. Esmilda Abreu-Hornbostel, Equity and Diversity
Dr. Jerry Fails, Computer Science
Dr. Emily Hill, Computer Science
Dr. Katherine Herbert, Computer Science