Simmons SharkHack

Hackathon at Simmons University - our aim is to create a women-centered tech development environment for Boston area students.

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Thank you @RecordedFuture for being Bite Level donor! Thank you for making this year’s SharkHack possible!

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Thank you @BroadStreet_io for being a Mega-Bite Level donor! Thank you for making this year’s SharkHack possible!

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Thank you @RaytheonDefense for being a Bite Level donor! Thank you for making this year’s SharkHack possible!

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Thank you to @Disney for being an in-kind sponsor and making our first virtual hackathon possible! #SharkHackMiniHack #Hackathon #DisneyTech

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Thank you to @Akamai for being a Bite Sponsor and making our first virtual hackathon possible! Also thank you for keeping threats away as many of us WFH or attend remote classes! #SharkHackMiniHack #Hackathon

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Sharkhack is only one day away! Swipe through to learn about all of our different prize categories at our hackathon! #data #hacking #hackathon #computerscience #SharkHack #womxnintech #womxninstem

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Sharkhack is only one day away! Swipe through to learn about all of our different prize categories at our hackathon! #data #hacking #hackathon #computerscience #SharkHack #womxnintech #womxninstem

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Today we are celebrating Karen Spärck Jones! She invented the concept of inverse document frequency, which underlies most modern search engines. #womenshistorymonth #stem

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President of Simmons University (@SimmonsUniv) Lynn Perry Wooten (@lpwooten) outlines the four stages of resilience she finds critical during her fireside chat with with award-winning author, speaker and Executive Coach Whitney Johnson (@johnsonwhitney) at #SLCBoston

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Today we are celebrating Anita Borg! She founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. #womenshistorymonth #stem

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Today we are celebrating Megan Smith! She was the third Chief Technology Officer of the United States. She is the current CEO and founder of shift7, a company that works to solve systemic social, economic, and environmental problems. #womenshistorymonth #stem

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Today we are celebrating the ENIAC Programmers! They are well known for programming the ENIAC, the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose, digital computer. They manipulated switches and cables to program since coding languages didn't exist yet. #womenshistorymonth #stem

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Today we are celebrating Adele Goldberg! She co-developed Smalltalk-80 at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Many of the concepts that she and her team worked on became the basis for GUIs #womenshistorymonth #stem

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Today we are celebrating Grace Hopper! In addition to being one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was also the first to devise the theory of machine-dependent programming languages! #womenshistorymonth #stem

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Today we are celebrating Mary Allen Wilkes! She is notable for designing the operating system LAP6 for the LINC computer, which is considered to be the world's first personal computer #womenshistorymonth #stem

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Want to participate in Sharkhack but you aren't sure what to expect? Come to the Hackathon 101 workshop on March 11th! We will answer all of your questions!

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Today we are celebrating Radia Perlman! She developed the algorithm behind the Spanning Tree Protocol and developed TORTIS, a machine that allowed children to program the behavior of turtle robot #womenshistorymonth #stem

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Happy Women’s History Month! Today we are celebrating Ada Lovelace! She is credited as the first computer programmer and published the first algorithm to be used with the Analytical Machine. #womenshistorymonth #stem

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This is Shirley Ann Jackson! She is the first African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at MIT. She is also known for her amazing and extensive career as a theoretical physicist.
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Registration is now open for Sharkhack 2021!

You can register on our website now at https://t.co/1jcQg7jpVz

Our hackathon provides women and nonbinary students the opportunity to collaborate and create innovative mobile apps, games, hardware hacks, and more.