EVENT
Hackbright Academy Girl Geek Dinner 2013
Join Hackbright Academy for a Girl Geek Dinner on May 9th, 2013 in San Francisco! Don’t miss the night of talks by women engineers, good food, great people, games, networking, schwag and more! Hackbright Academy students will be demoing their final projects, and there will be a geeky photo booth!
Talk Topic: “Mentorship: Or Why We Should All Be More Like My Brother” by Kate Heddleston
This is a talk on being mentored, being a mentor, and how to find those people who are going to help you get to the next stage of your life/career.
Talk Topic: “Drinking From the Firehose” by Mercedes Coyle
This is a talk on getting my start as a new engineer, and how I learned to love data.
Talk Topic: “A Day in the Life of a Hackbright Student”
This is a talk on being a student at Hackbright Academy, learning to code and building your personal project – and all the things in between.
Speakers
Mercedes Coyle
COMPANY
Hackbright Academy is the leading engineering school for women with a mission to increase female representation in tech through education, mentorship and community. The school has a 12-week accelerated software development program designed to help women become software engineers.
