How A 17-Year-Old Girl Won a Hackathon
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How A 17-Year-Old Girl Won a Hackathon
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#2Good for her!
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#3However, she points out that “women in tech” stories are also simply “tech stories.” Good point.
As I always whisper to my own daughter, "the computer can't tell you're a girl."
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#4“This is a terrific story, and proof that young girls are an untapped resource of innovation,” said Change The Ratio co-founder Rachel Sklar, when we told her the news.
It seemed this young woman acted identically to any young individual interested in tech.
Learned about tech. Lived tech. Talked tech. Practiced, practiced, practiced.
Didn't need any self-victimizing pink ghetto look at me give me an advantage because I'm a poor damsel in tech crapola.
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#5What she built is pretty cool. Good job Jennie.
> "The best part is the feeling of accomplishment and knowing that I made a hack that people reacted positively to."
Amazing what positive feedback can do.
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#6Anyone else find the tone of this article to be condescending?
"Let’s focus on how one teenage girl, Jennie Lamere, defeated a room full of smart, motivated, experienced, full-grown men. This would seem to be instructive to the greater argument about women in technology, and besides, it has the added bonus of being -> based in fact rather than opinion As if the argument for women is based primarily on opinion.
“It’s also important to note that Jennie’s idea is a completely universal, gender-neutral one"
Is it? Last time I checked gender-biased ideas can be just as valuable as gender-neutral ones. Why does Jennie need to 'prove' herself capable of producing gender-neutral ideas?
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#7Anyone else find the tone of this article to be condescending? "Let’s focus on how one teenage girl, Jennie Lamere, defeated a room full of smart, motivated, experienced, full-grown men. This would seem to be instructive to the greater argument about women in technology, and besides, it has the added bonus of being -> based in fact rather than opinion As if the argument for women is based primarily on opinion. “It’s…
As if the argument for women is based primarily on opinion.
Not "the argument", it's just that many arguments for women are based on opinion.
Edit: and yeah I totally agree about the "gender-neutral" thing. I was kind of disappointed actually! I wanted to see something unusual, something the room full of dudes wouldn't have thought of :)
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#8By being better than the competition. That is the answer.
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#9It's possible to win a hackathon? I thought these things were for fun, not for competition.
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#10“This is a terrific story, and proof that young girls are an untapped resource of innovation,” said Change The Ratio co-founder Rachel Sklar, when we told her the news. It seemed this young woman acted identically to any young individual interested in tech. Learned about tech. Lived tech. Talked tech. Practiced, practiced, practiced. Didn't need any self-victimizing pink ghetto look at me give me an advantage because…
Can you expand more on "self-victimizing," what you think that is, and how it expresses itself?