Famous Women in Tech
Who was the first computer programmer?
Ada Lovelace
What organization hosts after-school clubs, summer programs, and creates books to teach girls around the world coding?
Girls Who Code
What is the process of choosing a woman over a man when both are equally qualified for a job?
Affirmative action
What is a comment?
Text in your code that is ignored by the computer.
What is the app made by Hiya Shah that uses AI to give an estimate of a household's water quality?
Maji
Who developed the COBOL coding language?
Grace Hopper
What competition encourages girls around the world to solve real world problems through code?
Technovation
What do we call the money given to female students to help them pursue studies in computer science?
Scholarships
What does the range() function do?
Generate a sequence of numbers
What is the app from Chloe Yan that offers resources for wildfire preparedness, including news, tracking, and AI-based risk notifications?
Pocketfires
Who invented WiFi?
Hedy Lamarr
What type of program involves a professional sharing their experiences and advice with a young person trying to join the tech world?
Mentorship
What is the process of making female and women engineers more visible in tech workspaces?
Increasing representation
What's the difference between a list and a tuple?
Lists can be modified, tuples cannot
What is the video call app created by Anieke Lemers that hosts activities/games for families to play together?
Peekabond
Who founded Mailbird: the famous Windows email client?
Andrea Loubier
What non-profit provides free interactive course catalogs for students in K-12 to learn coding online?
What is the process of educating employees about gender-based prejudice in the workplace?
Gender bias training
What are the 6 data types we learned in Python?
Boolean, float, integer, string, tuple, list
What app detects apologetic and "weak" language in writing/recordings to help women communicate with more authority?
Power Prose (created by Ann Layman, Lyssa Stiller, Jacquelyn Wax, Hannah Weber)
Which computer scientist predicted flight paths for the first trip to the moon?
Katherine Johnson
What platform created by Jessie Jiang offers free classes and camps to help students from K-12 learn code?
Create & Learn
Why are flexible hours important for gender diversity in all position levels of the tech space?
More accessibility for caregivers. Example: parents who take on most of the childcare responsibilities will be able to contribute.
What character is used to create a new line of text within a string?
\n
What is the name of the AI that detects sexist messages and warns the sender about the harmful content?
Miso (created by Lecia Cheng, Pranav, and Stanley Lin for UofTHacksX)