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Tech Lady Hackathon: 'A Really Open Community for Women'
Interest in the Tech Lady Hackathon has increased each year since its start in 2013.
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The third annual Tech Lady Hackathon was held Saturday (August 8) at the Impact Hub co-working space in Washington, D.C. The event attracted more than 150 coders, mostly women in their 20s and 30s, who participated in a day-long slate of collaborative programming projects and training sessions.
One project was led by Shannon Turner of Hear Me Code and involved brainstorming ideas for improving her organization's website, while another session took the form of a workshop on data visualization. Other projects on the agenda included learning application program interface programming, and working to clean data and help visualize it for the Rebuilding Re-entry program, which aims to improve outcomes for men and women with criminal records.
"It's a really open community for women, especially people like me who are still sort of entering in more junior levels in technology," says Grace Turke-Martinez, who works on a political consulting firm's data and analytics team.
The event is the creation of Leah Bannon, a product manager at the U.S. General Services Administration's 18F digital services agency. Bannon is transferring to 18F's San Francisco office this month, so this was her last year running the hackathon. She took time during the event to pass the torch, leading a session on how to run a hackathon.
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