在越南发起第一次女子黑客攻击
Tien Mai (left) and SheCodes teammate
Last spring,Tien Mai '20 (beplay官网体育Babson College Global Scholarand part of thebeplay官网体育巴布森2017年CGI U队列) not only participated in the Wearables Hackathon,but her teamtook top honors for their product design.
This spring,她联系了刘易斯研究所Social Innovation Inventureshipprogram—a paid or credit-bearing Fellowship that allows students to use ET&A to invent their own social innovation project.她的想法？To further the mission of种子越南,她创立的旨在解决越南青年教育不平等问题的非政府组织，在越南组织有史以来第一次的女子黑客活动。
SheCodes Hackathon
The purpose of the SheCodes hackathon is to bring more women to STEM and help close the IT gender gap in Vietnam.The SheCodes team organized workshops to educate participants in coding basics.They also invited several successful businesswomen in the tech startup and IT fields to share their experience and expertise.
2018年Shecodes Hackathon团队。Photo courtesy of SheCodes.
During this 24-hour long event,超过100名妇女聚集在越南两大城市。近15%的参与者是年轻人（<18岁）。and another 82.6% were young women (19–25 years old).
Participants formed teams to collaboratively design and code a solution addressing one of these UN Global Goals:Quality Educationand性别平等.这个获奖项目是一个移动应用程序，通过让女性向朋友和家人发送紧急信号，帮助她们避免性骚扰。
We asked Tien a few questions about her Inventureship experience:
What was your biggest challenge in organizing the hackathon?
When I first looked for partnerships in Vietnam or guest speakers,总是有人问我，"Do you really think there is a market that is big enough for women interested in tech?" When I said I expected to have 100 women joining the event,they doubted my numbers.It was really hard at first because we were doing something that has never been done before,and the fact that IT is so male-dominated in my country made people suspicious of my expectations.It was funny and ironic to me that my greatest challenge was not about money,but about how to change people's mindset and convince them that there is a niche market of IT women in Vietnam,但他们还没有找到一个发光的地方。
What upcoming plans do you have for SheCodes or SEEDS that you're most excited about?
在这次黑客攻击之后，我一直在想“下一步该做什么”，因为我想维护这个社区。Right now,we are recruiting a regional organizing team in the two biggest cities in Vietnam.他们将负责每年组织3-4个活动，直到我们每年的黑客攻击。These events aim to focus on different topics around the IT industry for women.For example,we will be educating women about Open Source technology,instructing how to interview for a tech company,and teaching basic programming.
刘易斯团队为田和她的组织已经产生的影响感到骄傲，and can't wait to see what's next.我们期待着让她在今年春天的一个良好的商业星期五与学生分享她的成功和学习。
Learn more aboutSocial Innovation Inventureships.