Girls' Coding Camp - Web Development
December 2, 2017 at 9:00 AM - December 3, 2017 at 5:00 PM @ Colombo, University of Colombo, School of Computing
Description
There were five main objectives that we wanted to achieve through this event, ● Encourage more women into computer science. ● Empower female students to choose technical fields in their higher studies. ● Improve confidence of the students from one to one mentoring. ● Teaching through samples and real environments. ● Create an arena for students to improve and showcase their development skills. We are really happy to mention here that we were able to achieve all these goals within this program as we already expected. All the students were from advanced level classes and they are currently studying Information and communications technology in their schools with the hope to enter universities from the computer science field. So with this program, we were able to make them much empower with the knowledge, how to create their own website and to face the future challenging technological world as techy girls. So we were able to encourage and empower our younger generation to choose technical fields in their higher studies. And the main thing we were able to do was to create an arena for young school students where they can improve and showcase their creativity and development skills by teaching them the latest technologies and frameworks through examples.
Agenda
Day 1 9.00 am - 9.10 am Welcome and Introduction Dilrukshi Gamage (A WTM Scholar 2017) 9.10 am – 11.00 am HTML Introduction and a web page development Dinuka Jayaweera (WTM lead) 11.00 am – 11.20 am Morning tea break 11.20 am – 1.00 pm HTML Introduction and a web page development Continuation Dinuka Jayaweera (WTM lead) 1.00 pm – 1.45 pm Lunch 1.45 pm – 3.15 pm Domain name registering and hosting Nuwini Chamindi ( From IEEE WIE Sri Lanka) 3.15 pm – 4.40 pm CSS Introduction Oshadi Wattuhewa (Invited speaker - UI/ UX Engineer) 4.40 pm – 5.00 pm Evening tea Day 2 9.00 am - 11.00 am CSS Continuation 11.00 am - 11.20 am Morning tea break 11.20 am – 1.00 pm Bootstrap Dilini Weerasinghe (WTM lead) 1.00 pm – 1.45 pm Lunch 1.45 pm – 3.00 pm Wordpress, Weebly websites creating and publishing Dilrukshi Gamage 3.00 pm – 3.30 pm Introduction to Google Code-In and other open source competitions for school kids/ above 18 years old women Dinuka Jayaweera 3.30 pm – 4.00 pm Using Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides Dilrukshi Gamage 4.00 pm – 4.30 pm Closing speeches and networking 4.30 pm – 5.00 pm Evening tea