HackathonGirls, Banjul

12/05/2023

Nyimasata Fofana a member of HackathonGirls is one of the trainers of our web development training for women/girls in collaboration with the American Corner. Nyima is a web developer and a mobile app developer. The session yesterday successfully trained 25 women/girls on editing web pages.

Nyima before joining HackathonGirls knew nothing about how to use a computer but today she a professional in web and app development. Congratulations Nyima and keep up the good work.

At the end of the training, we want to make sure that the women/girls are equipped in web development skills.

27/04/2023

Happy International day of Girls in ICT.

06/03/2023

Don’t miss it. Register now

Are you a tech enthusiast? Are you interested in Web Development? Well, we've got you covered! American Corner, The Gambia In Collaboration with HackathonGirls, Banjul has brought you a three-month training on Web Development. This package is in honor of Women's History Month.

For interested persons, click on the link below to register: https://forms.gle/QAQZMQEfU9pJ8uAc7

NOTE: This training is only for women and girls.

Application deadline: March 20th, 2023.

30/12/2022

The Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship Program is now open! The Program awards 400 high school seniors who are planning to pursue an undergraduate degree in engineering or computer science with a $40,000 scholarship for college, plus a guaranteed paid internship at Amazon. Applications are open until January 20, 2023.

Learn how to apply: https://hubs.ly/Q01vK_7k0

11/10/2022

Yay. Welcome Muminatou

It’s international day of the Girl and we would be featuring amazing girls doing amazing work in The Gambia.

Meet Muminatou Barrow, a young and considerate nineteen year old, attending Regional Maritime University in Ghana, studying Computer engineering. She was one of the best students in The Gambia with 6As during the West African Senior Secondary School exams and she is also the winner of the U.S. July 4th Essay competition in 2020.

She was an active member and a former secretary of Voice of the Young, a Child's Right advocacy group under the Child Protection Alliance(CPA). She is also a very active member of the HackathonGirls, Banjul, where she represented The Gambia with other colleagues in The FIRST Global Robotics Competition, for the years 2020 and 2021.

Muminatou always hopes to gain considerably more skills to overcome different challenges, build a better character and be a better change maker in her community.

She hopes to see more women venturing in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) discipline, and she believes that her goal can only be achieved through continuous dedication and hard work.

Happy International day of the Girl..

11/10/2022

Go girl and welcome

International day of the Girl:

Meet Hawa cham a ninteen year old girl. She did her primary and secondary education in Anne Marie Javouhey Academy. Hawa did her high school education in Gambia Methodist Academy where she studied a pure science program.

During her time in high school, she engaged in various extra curricular activities both in school and out of school. In school she was part of the computer science club. Hawa attended and online free course on introduction to HTML and CSS which was created by the American corner and the HackathonGIrls. She later completed the course with a certificate which gave her the opportunity to join the Mozilla club of HackathonGIrls.

After joining the Mozilla Club of Hackathongirls Banjul, she became the president of the club. Hawa with her team members led other young girls in teaching them about Web literacy and guiding them to choose careers in STEM. Due to her dedication to her work she was chosen to represent her country in a global robotics competition called the FIRST Global challenge. She represented her country twice in the competition and was awarded a certificate in both.

Upon completion of high school, she got admission into The University of The Gambia, where she is now studying Computer Science. Hawa is now a member of HackathonGirls, Banjul which is purely for Women in STEM. She aspires to become a software developer and aims to see more females in the tech world. She wants more females to choose a career in STEM so that they can join hands and develop thier nation.

Happy International day of the Girl.

24/05/2022

HacathonGirls in partnership with American Corner, The Gambia brings you a training on the basics of 3D printing..

Are you interested? Then register here: [email protected]

Deadline is the 28th of May. Space is limited, don’t miss it.

22/03/2022

Today in partnership with American Corner, The Gambia, we succeeded in training 25 girls in basics of robotics. These girls came with no knowledge of what Robotics is and at the end they were very grateful and excited to have learnt a lot. At the end they built a minibot and understood a bit of block programming as well. We will continue to inspire girls to go into the STEM field. Let us know if you would want to get enrolled.

FYI: For girls 8 to 18 years.

15/03/2022

American Corner, the Gambia in partnership with HackathonGirls will be organizing a one day Robotics training for Girls: Building Robots.

We want to be able to equip kids to become digital creators and leaders

If you are in Grade six and a girl, do apply

Time : 22nd March from 3pm to 6pm.

Preference is given to members of the Mozilla Club of HackathonGirls club so make sure you state it in your application form here.

Click here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AFSGEydJ26QmPEaGMh90mR7pMeqeL-a2RBaV4IR05zg/viewform?ts=6230a251&edit_requested=true

13/12/2021

Congratulations to three of our girls who bagged 6As in the West African Senior Secondary school certificate exams. These girls wants to go into Computer Science Engineering and we are excited and can’t wait... We are proud of you girls and keep up the good work..