Marily Nika organiser of the first female-only student hackathon.
Last month Facebook's London HQ opened its doors to a group of engineers to brainstorm and code in the UK's first female only student hackathon.
A hackathon is an event where programmers, designers and artists come together to conceptualize, build and demo the future. Such events are open to coders of all kinds, being allowed to unleash their creativity on anything they could imagine.
The event was organsied by Marily Nika a PhD student here in the Department of Computing. Marily is a Google Anita Borg scholar and is a keen proponent of increasing the visibility and role of women within the CS Industry and is the founder of a women’s computing group here at Imperial College. Her research interests are in the Quantitative Analysis of Social Phenomena on the Internet.
Read more about Marily and her hackathon event at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/9924987/Why-female-hackathons-are-all-the-rage.html
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