THE EVENT APP

Caribbean Girls 3D Virtual Technocreativity Hackathon has an event app. Download here to get the full experience of the event.

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SNEAKPEAK OF THE 3D EVENT VENUE

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ENJOY THE 3D EXPERIENCE

PROGRAM

We have a full day of events.

Also look out for Flow BTC session in their booth at 12.00 – 1.00 pm Jamaica time – “Your Pathway to a Career in ICT”.

OUR SPONSORS

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

What is a Hackathon?

hack·a·thon
/ˈhakəˌTHän/
noun
A hackathon is a design sprint-like event using intensive collaboration among creative thinkers for innovative problem solving.

WHAT?

It’s no secret that technology is the most powerful lever shaping the future of society.

Today, women & girls are 25% less likely than men to know how to leverage digital technology, less likely to know how to leverage devices and internet access to their full potential and less likely to create content or use cutting-edge technology. Just look at how current AI and IoT and ‘assistants’ like ‘Alexa’ and ‘Siri’ still perpetuate limiting gender biases. Women are increasingly closed out as technologies get more sophisticated and expensive, especially tech that enables more transformational uses in our lives. Women are largely absent from the frontiers of tech innovation, missing out on higher salaries and explosive job markets.

At Google, only 10% of their employees working on machine intelligence are female. Women cannot continue to be absent …

WHY?

Partly because the small number of young women studying ICT translates into a gender gap in the labour market. Globally, women hold only 24% of all digital sector jobs, and only 6% of mobile application and software developers are female. This calls for action now..

WHAT CAN WE DO?

Hack to Create. The hackathon is designed to empower young women as digital citizens and as tech creators, who identify and build digital solutions to solve problems. The hackathon will provide girls with digital learning in a fun, relaxed environment, cultivate digital skills, introduce inspiring role models and allow them to explore new avenues for their increased agency and choice.

HACK NOW!
IMAGINE | CREATE | DESIGN | NARRATE

CONCEPT

Techno creativity is not about using the most hyped technologies, it’s about bringing value through invisible technologies which support and amplify innovative ideas but don’t outshine them.

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES

Anguilla, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St.Kitts & Nevis, St.Lucia, St.Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos.

TOPIC AREAS

Climate Change and Sustainability
Gender Based Violence/Intimate Partner Violence
Saving our Oceans – The Blue Economy

CREATIVE STYLES

Animation Story
Music Video
Short Docu-Drama
Photo Story Board
Vlog

MEDIA/PRESS

150 girls to compete in Caribbean Girls Virtual 3D Hackathon Finals

After months of challenging over 700 girls around the region to develop tech
solutions to pressing regional issues, the Caribbean Girls Hack TechnoCreativity
Hackathon 2021, will have its final event on Saturday, May 8th.
The Caribbean Girls Hackathon is an annual regional program, run by SheLeadsIT
in collaboration with Technology partner, Restore a Sense of I Can (RSC) Tech
Clubs and is a part of the annual International Girls in ICT Day celebration.
This year the final Caribbean Girls Virtual 3D Hackathon event, will showcase the
finalists, 150 girls representing 35 teams from 10 Caribbean countries.

Suriname sweeps top 2 spots in Caribbean Girls Hackathon

The teams from Suriname, the Girl Code and Fusion Girls, copped both the first and second place spots, with their Animation stories on Climate Change and Save Our Oceans respectively (resp). Ocean Girls from Trinidad and Tobago, and Digital Dream Team from Barbados tied for third place, with their Animated Storyboard and Animation solutions on Save Our Oceans and Climate Change respectively..
Fourth place went to Sangre Grande Development Trinidad and Tobago for their Music Video on Save Our Oceans. The People’s choice award, based on participant voting during the 3D event, went to Free Tech from Trinidad and Tobago for their Animation on Save Our Oceans.

Bajan Digital Dream team cop third prize in Caribbean Girls TechoCreativity Hackathon

The Bajan Digital Dream team copped the third-place spot, with team members Destiny Howell, Kayla Aboab, Jenna Ifill and Ashanté Bowens. The girls pitched their Animation solution providing practical solutions for the pressing issue of Climate Change and sustainability.

Bajan Team Cops Third Prize In Caribbean Hackathon

These #girlsintech are no strangers to the winners’ row, as they won the Barbados Caribbean Girls Hackathon in 2019 representing Deighton Griffith Secondary school.
The team indicated that their biggest strength was learning and adapting quickly as a unit, and their twice-weekly virtual meetings kept them on track.

B.H.S. Advances in Caribbean Girls Hackathon

The Belize High School has advanced in the Caribbean Girls Hackathon. It’s a regional event where programmers get together to find solutions for a real world problem. B.H.S. entered three teams and Team Paradox has qualified to move on to the next round. The team, made up of students Amali Teck, Gabbi Knox, Gianna Saldivar and Halle Fuller, used animation for the theme of keeping the seas and ocean clean.

First Lady ontvangt winnaars Caribbean Girls Hackathon

Suriname heeft de eerste en tweede plaats gewonnen tijdens de virituele Caribbean Girls Hackathon.First Lady Mellisa Santokhi-Seenacherry heeft de meisjes van de twee winnende groepen vrijdag 14 mei ontvangen.

Codettes van Suriname kwalificeren zich in top 30 Caribbean Girls Hackathon

Twee teams van de codettes uit Suriname hebben zich weten te kwalificeren in de top 30 van de Caribbean Girls Hackathon 2021. De Hackathon begon 18 januari en zal eindigen op 24 april 2021.

Flow, BTC sign on as platinum co-sponsors of Caribbean Girls Hackathon

SheLeadsIT, in collaboration with our technology partner, Restore a Sense of I Can (RSC) Tech Clubs, is pleased to welcome Flow and BTC on board as a Platinum sponsor of the Caribbean Girls Techno Creativity Hackathon 2021. As one of the leading Telecoms providers in the region, Flow has been a partner on this journey since inception, consistently demonstrating their commitment to gender equality in the ICT sector and the empowerment of women and girls to actively participate in the global digital economy.

Flow and BTC Sponsor Caribbean Girls Hack Technocreativity Hackothan

Flow and BTC, consumer brands of C&W Communications – the region’s leading communications and entertainment provider, were platinum co-sponsors of Caribbean Girls Hack Technocreativity Hackathon which took place on Saturday, May 8, 2021. This, as the company continues to inspire more girls and young women to pursue studies and careers in ICT.

Surinaamse Codettes winnen eerste en tweede plek Caribbean Girls 3D Virtual Hackathon