GRACE HOPPER INDIA

ACE HACKER organized an event “Grace Hopper India | Tech for Good 2015 Hackathon” sponsored by MICROSOFT and AMERICAN EXPRESS on 22nd August 2015 at Indian Habitat Centre, Silver Oak, New Delhi. Sixteen girls students of CSE and IT Department from Dronacharya College of Engineering attended the event.

The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is conducted by the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology and the Association for Computing Machinery Collaboration with AMERICAN EXPRESS.

Ninety four women – from engineering students to tech professionals – came together for delhi’s first all-female hackathon, Tech for Good. The hackathon, presented in collaboration with 10,000 Start-ups, Girls in Tech, various working women, scientist, provided women participants a platform to collaborate, code and contribute to humanitarian software. They put their heads together to develop applications, for both mobile and desktop platforms, for healthcare, service and other humanitarian needs .

Twenty teams worked collaboratively and presented their ideas at the end of the day. Each team will be matched with a mentor to work with over the next four months to further develop their apps. Teams that make good progress will get a chance to present their work at ABI India’s Bangalore Hackathon.

This was a great platform for women developers and techies to combine their talent, insight and unleash their can-do spirit by collaboratively harnessing data and code to create innovative solutions for problems that affect societies at large.