As we start a new year, why not take up a new challenge?
The White House Council on Women and Girls has issued a
challenge: The "Equal Futures" app challenge, "to create apps that
inspire girls and young women to serve as leaders in our democracy." To
that end, ElectNext is helping the White House organize a
series of "mini-codeathon" events to take place around the country this
Saturday afternoon. The goal of these events is to bring together
middle and high school girls with seasoned technologists to work
together in teams for a couple of hours to articulate
problems, ideate solutions, UX prototype and, if possible, get coding!
White
House staff will be joining us via video conference, including Sarah
Hurwitz, speechwriter to the First Lady and Brian Forde, senior advisor
to US CTO Todd Park. The apps submitted by the challenge deadline will
be judged by a prestigious panel including
Jack Dorsey (founder, Twitter and Square), Geena Davis (Actor), and
others. And, the Philadelphia community is coming together around this
event in force, with members of TechGirlz, Philly Startup Leaders,
Temple University, and other groups heavily involved.
It would be great to see the Penn tech community out
in full effect! Details of the event and more information about the
app challenge are below. Feel free to forward; you need not be female
to attend.
White House Council on Women and Girls' Equal Futures App Challenge
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy
Cherokee Campus, 8000 Cherokee St.
Philadelphia, PA 19118
(SEPTA transport is available; if in a car, please park in the gold lot)
This Saturday, January 5
Registration at 12:30, White House call will begin promptly at 1pm
Food will be provided, please bring a laptop
RSVP: Keya Dannenbaum,
keya@electnext.com and Rahilla Zafar, rahilla@gmail.com
For more information about the challenge, please visit: equalfutures.challenge.gov or http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/11/27/white-house-announces-judges-equal-futures-app-challenge
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