Event title
ICT-INOV Girls to Code: Workshop on Programming and Design Thinking.
Date and Location
The event took place on December 29 – 31, 2023 from 10.00 – 13.00 each day at the ICT-INOV Design Thinking Lab, Center for Energy Studies (CES), Institute of Engineering (IOE), Tribhuvan University (TU).
Participants
The participants were mainly high school students and undergraduate engineering students. The total number of participants was 58 students from various colleges.
Description of activities
This 3-day workshop was held under LOCUS 2024 – 20th National Technological Festival which is held annually at the Pulchowk Campus, IOE, Tribhuvan University. The instructors for the workshop were Alita Shrestha, Senior ReactJs developer from Pegotec and Tanisha Chaudhary, Software Engineer from LIS Pvt. Ltd. Nepal. They were assisted by 10 mentors for hands-on sessions.
There were also guest speakers – Supriya Khadka, Conversational AI Engineer from Diyo.ai, Aachal Thapa, President of Nepali Women+ in computing and Nadika Poudel, 4th Year Computer Engineering Student, Pulchowk Campus.
The event was managed by Mahima Dhakal and Smriti Karki, 4th year Computer Engineering students under LOCUS 2024.
Day 1: The first day sessions were conducted by instructor Tanisha Chaudhary. This included the following topics.
- Introduction of ICT-INOV project
- Overview of design thinking for programming projects
- React fundamentals
- Hands-on session
Day 2 and 3: The second and third day sessions were conducted by instructor Alita Shrestha. The topics included
- Advanced component concepts and project exploration
- Hands-on session
Dissemination
The event was disseminated in social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram as seen in the following links.
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