Happy Tuesday, wonderful humans! Here’s another issue of Women in Tech Weekly – and with so many incredible celebrations and resources ❤️
Don’t forget to share your story for the next one. Make sure to check out the submission form at the bottom of the post 🙂
Featured Woman 👩💻
Alex and LGTBQ+ in Tech Newsletter
Alex is such a wonderful soul and a multi-passionate person! Following her interests and seeing her ideas through is what has got her into iOS Development to begin with – which is such an awesome example of how one can get into tech! She is self-taught, badass and all about community, running the first LGBTQ+ in Tech newsletter.
Learn about Alex’s story here!
Celebrations 🥂🎉
Iman started learning AI and spreading tech knowledge on her Instagram!
In her own words:
“Hallo! I am Iman Mohi, 19, I am pursuing undergrad in computer science. When I was planning to get into CSE, I was suffering from a lack of counselling and mentoring. Basic questions like Which programming language to start with? Were problematic for me but it felt embarrassing to ask such a question which I now realise is fine to ask. So I recently started to answer basic questions like these on my Instagram handle and I am thinking of starting a YouTube channel as well. I am happy I finally started this.”
It’s Kimi’s birthday!
In her own words:
“Happy Birthday To Myself!!!
Thanks a lot, God for giving me another year of life! The most wonderful truth is, I’m not getting old, I’m just becoming experienced. Due to lockdown many people, friends are not here with me but so what quarantine can’t stop me. And I am celebrating my birthday with my family and friends too. With the help of tech tools, it’s easy to catch them and celebrate my day!!!”
Meg celebrated her birthday!
Happy Birthday, you absolute badass and ray of sunshine!! May this year bring you lots of adventures and takes you to new heights ❤️
Eden had her 3rd year anniversary at work!
Congratulations, Eden!! Hard work always pays off and you’re the best example of it. Keep on killing it girl 🥰
Jade graduated with a CS degree!
Congratulations, Jade! What an exciting milestone, I hope you are feeling energized and ready for what’s to come – we all can’t wait to see what future has in store for you 🥰
Stephanie started a YouTube channel!
Yess, La Reina del Cyber! So excited to see all of the amazing content you end up creating 😍
Resources 👩💻
Leading with Courage: Women Leaders in the U.S. and Around the World
In 2018, 4.8% of Fortune 500 CEOs were women. The year before, women made up 22.2% of Fortune 500 board members. It was also determined as of October 2017 that 9% of venture capital deals were led by female partners. 25% of these deals related to software, 22% of them were associated with the internet, 15% were linked to telecoms, and 12% were tied to health care.
YOLT – the power of combining two AI systems – created and shared by Andrea
Andrea says:
“It shows a different perspective to the field of AI. Understanding the idea of how merging existing tools can generate more value to a company than just trying to build something from scratch. Shows the trade-off between execution time and generated value.”
Self Taught Problems – created by Nicole
Learning a new skill from scratch on your own can be daunting and overwhelming and Nicole has started a wonderful series on the topic. Highly recommended for anyone who is teaching themselves to code 🙂
Projects to Level Up Your Front End Skills – created by Margo
Awesome ideas of projects to build if you’re looking to practice your Front End skills!
Career and Education Decisions – How to Make the Right Choice? – created and shared by me 🙂
There are tons of career opportunities in tech, with new ones being added every day -which is awesome! However, it can be a bit overwhelming when making a decision about which path to choose: in terms of education and professionally. The same goes for those trying to make a career switch – how do you make that important decision?
Let me share my framework for this!
Taking Care of Your Mental Health During Self Isolation – Part 2 – created and shared by me 🙂
We need to be more intentional when it comes to maintaining our mental health – and especially now, during these uncertain times that may ignite fear and anxiety. So I want to share what works for me – so that you can also implement those practices.
Please let me know your thoughts in the comments below and if you’d like to share something for next week’s issue, here’s the submission form!! Bookmark that and add anything you’d like to share in there 🙂
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