EVENT

Hackbright Girl Geek Dinner 2012

Girl Geek Dinners and Hackbright Academy bring to you an evening dedicated to Women Learning Code on Wednesday, August 8th, 2012 in San Francisco! Mingle over dinner and drinks, check out cool demos by students of Hackbright Academy, and hear inspiring stories from different women who learned to code!

Talk Topic: “How I Became a Confident Coder” by Chiu-Ki Chan

Chiu-Ki’s path to software engineering started with BASIC at a community center and LOGO at secondary school. Programming always delighted her, but it took a while for her to be comfortable among the whiz kids at college. What was the turning point? How did she become a confident software engineer?

Talk Topic: “How I Learned to Code – And Built a Feature in 6 Days” by Melissa McCreery

Tired of waiting for a new feature to get to the top of the developers’ list, Melissa decided to build it herself–and taught herself the Python, CSS, and Javascript she needed to do it. Here’s how she did it.

Talk Topic: “Learning to Code: Faking It til I’m Making It” by Lynn Root

Attracted to coding last year, Lynn sprinted away from her original life plan of finance. Since then, teaching herself how to code has been a farcical adventure. In positioning herself as a harbinger in teaching women Python, she is no more qualified than the women attending such workshops. Education schmeducation – hear how she takes learning into her own hands.

Talk Topic: “How Python Made Me The Programmer I Am Today” by Laura Kelly

Before becoming a student at Hackbright Academy, Laura worked in academic neuroscience research. She had had some experience with programming, but it wasn’t until she stumbled across Python in her attempts to wrangle data in the lab that she realized she had a passion for programming. After several months of learning Python, she discusses why she thinks it’s the best language for beginners (and why it was the language that clicked for her).

Talk Topic: “Starting My Software Engineering Journey” by Alice Yeh

Learning is a lifelong journey: figuring out what/how you want to learn is hard, and coming into terms with how to translate learning into meaning so that you can empower yourself and others is even harder. It takes dedication and persistence to go into software engineering. Alice is just starting her journey – hear her share what it’s like to re-start her career after stumbling into the tech industry.

Speakers

Laura Kelly

Software Engineer

Airbnb

Lynn Root

Lead SRE

Spotify

Chiu-Ki Chan

Lead Android Developer

Melissa McCreery Reeves

Founder

The Muse

Alice Yeh

TPM

Google

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.

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