Participant Profile

• Participants must be currently pursing a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering
• Attendees must be female college students that are currently interning at Qualcomm OR whom were referred by one of our participating non-profits, university partners, or interns using a top secret referral code
• Participants should be passionate about solving the gender gap in tech and may therefore play an active role in various organizations on and off campus to help move the needle (e.g., Society of Women Engineers, Women in Computer Science, Women in Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Society of Black Engineers, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, mentorship programs, etc.)

Teams

• Attendees will be required to work in teams of 4
• Participants will register their team name and declare a project of interest with the event organizers prior to the hackathon kicking off at 7 pm

Categories

Hackers will have a chance to use their technical expertise to help solve the real-world problems of our participating event partners listed below.  A complete list of project descriptions can be found on our website.

1. Hope Bars International
2. National Center for Women in Information Technology
3. PinkThink
4. Anita Borg Institute
5. Girls Who Code
6. Qualcomm's Thinkabit Lab

Submission Requirements

Our hope is that after the hackathon experience, our participating parters will be able to implement some of the solutions and recommendations of our attendees.  In order to do so, our partners will need access to the code and project descriptions of our hack teams and therefore, we're asking participants to do the following:  

• Each hacker needs to create an account on ChallengePost (it's free to register!)
• Each team must register their team name and members for our hackathon on ChallengePost
• Hackers will be asked to provide a brief description of their project along with linking any code via GitHub