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100

Who was the first computer programmer?

Ada Lovelace

100

What organization hosts after-school clubs, summer programs, and creates books to teach girls around the world coding?

Girls Who Code

100

What is the process of choosing a woman over a man when both are equally qualified for a job?

Affirmative action

100

What is a comment?

Text in your code that is ignored by the computer.

100

What is the app made by Hiya Shah that uses AI to give an estimate of a household's water quality?

Maji

200

Who developed the COBOL coding language?

Grace Hopper

200

What competition encourages girls around the world to solve real world problems through code?

Technovation

200

What do we call the money given to female students to help them pursue studies in computer science?

Scholarships

200

What does the range() function do?

Generate a sequence of numbers

200

What is the app from Chloe Yan that offers resources for wildfire preparedness, including news, tracking, and AI-based risk notifications?

Pocketfires

300

Who invented WiFi?

Hedy Lamarr

300

What type of program involves a professional sharing their experiences and advice with a young person trying to join the tech world?

Mentorship

300

What is the process of making female and women engineers more visible in tech workspaces?

Increasing representation

300

What's the difference between a list and a tuple?

Lists can be modified, tuples cannot

300

What is the video call app created by Anieke Lemers that hosts activities/games for families to play together?

Peekabond

400

Who founded Mailbird: the famous Windows email client?

Andrea Loubier

400

What non-profit provides free interactive course catalogs for students in K-12 to learn coding online?

400

What is the process of educating employees about gender-based prejudice in the workplace?

Gender bias training

400

What are the 6 data types we learned in Python?

Boolean, float, integer, string, tuple, list

400

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)

500

Which computer scientist predicted flight paths for the first trip to the moon?

Katherine Johnson

500

What platform created by Jessie Jiang offers free classes and camps to help students from K-12 learn code?

Create & Learn

500

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.

500

What character is used to create a new line of text within a string?

\n

500

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)