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Africa,Tech and Girls: Mbali & Ruddy Co-founders Pink-IT

January 10, 2018January 10, 2018 by GirlCode ZA

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Our first blog for the year profiles some pretty amazing women pushing for more women to join the tech community! the GirlCode teams talks to Mbali and Ruddy, C0-founders of the tech initiative Pink-IT. [caption id="attachment_705" align="alignleft" width="500"] Mbali and Ruddy Co-founders of Pink-IT[/caption] 1. Tell us more about yourself and how you…

Lorna Nqodi: The San Francisco Experience

December 6, 2017December 6, 2017 by GirlCode ZA

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GirlCode Hackathon 2017 The opportunity of travelling overseas certainly satisfied a desire I had been longing for, for a long time. My adventure began the day before the hackathon at the Cape Town airport. I remember reaching for my Id from my back-pack’s side pocket and realizing I had not…

Ednecia Matlapeng: My Journey as a woman in tech

November 24, 2017November 28, 2017 by GirlCode ZA

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I was born in a small township called Boitekong in Rustenburg, where no one I knew owned a computer. There were very few sources of entertainment for us growing up. One of my favourite hobbies was picking up any paper with text on it and reading it out loud, regardless…

San Francisco GirlCode Trip 2017

November 14, 2017November 14, 2017 by GirlCode ZA

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The GirlCode trip San Francisco sponsored by Standard Bank, was truly an amazing trip in every sense. We arrived in the USA on the Sunday afternoon of the 15 of October. Tired and a bit jet lagged we went straight to bed, in order to shake off the jet lag…

Meet GirlCoder: Wits student Tsitsi Primrose Marote

October 10, 2017October 10, 2017 by GirlCode ZA

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3rd year student in Computational and Applied Mathematics at the University of Witswatersrand. “I joined the hackathon this year as a means to learn, see how well I can work under pressure, and to bond with my friends over code. It was amazing how much I learnt in just one weekend…

GirlCode Workshop Elevator Pitch: It’s time to tell your story

October 2, 2017October 2, 2017 by GirlCode ZA

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On Saturday ,30 September 2017, GirlCode hosted its last Workshop for the year with the Elevator Pitch. "The idea to introduce workshops was conceived following feedback from participants in previous years' hackathon. We know that women and girls enter the GirlCode Hackathon for fun, but we also know they do…

Workplace Experience: Cyber Security, hardware and software development intern at CSIR

September 20, 2017September 20, 2017 by GirlCode ZA

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My journey in tech started when I got to varsity, initially I wanted to study medicine but due to lack of space I couldn’t. In 2014 I got the opportunity to study Computer Systems Engineering at Tshwane University of Technology and my love for science helped me decide to go…

GirlCode Cast Ep #3 | Volunteers Lungile Mtetwa

September 17, 2017September 29, 2017 by GirlCode ZA

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Welcome to the GirlCodeCast Podcast: In this episode, we speak to one of the GirlCode volunteers. Lungile is an experienced Analytics Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and now in the services industry. Her background is in Computational and Applied Mathematics having completed her honours degree…

GirlCode Hackathon: And the winners are…

August 9, 2017August 9, 2017 by GirlCode ZA

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Imagine our excitement when we found out that we could participate in the GirlCode hackathon on the other side of the country. Our trip to go and participate was all sponsored by our Information Systems department at UCT. We left on a Friday afternoon with enough time to get a…

GirlCode Cast Ep #1 | Meet GirlCode Founders

July 5, 2017July 6, 2017 by GirlCode ZA

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Welcome to our very first GirlCodeCast Podcast where we tackle different topics in the IT space and specifically topics around women. In this episode, we speak to the GirlCode founders: Zandile Keebine (Chairwoman), Jeanette Theu (Vice Chairwoman) and Tinyiko Simbine(Chief Financial Officer). Today we take a look behind the curtains to…

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