Recently, AT&T collaborated with Girls Who Code in New York City to produce a special hackathon focused on Women in Tech. We had around 100 hackers gather at the Center for Social Innovation to create websites and apps for social good.
To kick off the event, Robin White, AT&T External Affairs – New York, talked about the ways in which AT&T is supporting girls and women in tech and why it's so important to AT&T. We also heard from Grant Reid, Lead College Recruiting Manager – New York, who shared some of the amazing career opportunities and programs at AT&T for young technologists.
As an extra bonus for all of the participants, the Microsoft Surface team sponsored the event by providing Surface Pro 4 loaners to teams to use for their development work. This helped the Girls Who Code teams by ensuring they could have more than one developer working on their project.
The whole event was quite collaborative with lots of interaction between professional developers and Girls Who Code students. The projects were amazing with solutions ranging from shopping to hotels to optical care, and it was so much fun to watch the demos! It was hard to pick winners, but the following teams stood out above the rest.
Stay up to date with all of the upcoming AT&T New York City events by joining New York Coding Workshops & Hackathons.
A huge "Thank you!" to all of our event sponsors for making this event possible!