Girlfriend Getaway Weekend is being held at Harrah’s in South Lake Tahoe, Oct 7-9, 2016 with a lineup of inspiring speakers and state of the art technical sessions. \u00a0The goal is to inspire attendees of Girlfriends Getaway Weekend to pursue careers along the path of engineering and science.<\/p>\n
“We are excited to bring mentors and skilled coders from a decade\u2019s worth of events to help a new group of entrepreneurs over a fun weekend of collaboration.”<\/p>\n
Hundreds of girls and women gather next month for a maker event, full of coding and tinkering, to explore the future of diversity in the technology industry. The goal is to inspire attendees of Girlfriends Getaway Weekend, the annual viewer appreciation event for the nationally broadcast tv talk show Wake Up!, to pursue careers along the path of engineering and science. A showcase of ideas follows 48 hours of collaboration and cooperation using free tools and hardware. Partners like lululemon athletica will provide prizes and opportunities to outstanding participants.<\/p>\n
Wake UP!, producers of Girlfriends Getaway Weekend, has partnered with Developer Camp to bring Silicon Valley\u2019s oldest and most successful \u201chackathons\u201d to a new level of diversity and inclusion. Activities are modeled after the popular event iPhoneDevCamp, which contributed founding moments to companies and products like Square, Temple Run, OAuth, and TestFlight. Award-winners have gone on to sell their ideas to Apple, Google, Facebook, Oracle, and other major tech companies.<\/p>\n
\u201cGirlfriends Getaway Weekend this year is all about being healthy, wealthy, and wise,\u201d says conference organizer Adryenn Ashley. \u201cI believe a friendly competition of ideas will inspire all the ladies to consider themselves a little smarter and more daring. Some of the apps and products that have come from Developer Camp are astounding. I cannot wait to see what ideas and frontiers people discover. In the end, we will all be much wiser to the possibilities of women in technology and leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur organization\u2019s goal is to represent and support the broadest possible range of participants and award-winners,\u201d explains Developer Camp co-founder and director Dom Sagolla. \u201cWe are excited to bring mentors and skilled coders from a decade\u2019s worth of events to help a new group of entrepreneurs over a fun weekend of collaboration. Camp co-founder whurley recently announced the Equals campaign in partnership with the UN and the ITU. Next month\u2019s event will be the first implementation of their vision, which we share: equal opportunity and compensation for all who pursue the path of engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n
Girlfriend Getaway Weekend is being held at Harrah’s in South Lake Tahoe, Oct 7-9, 2016 with a lineup of inspiring speakers and state of the art technical sessions. Tickets range from $179-$999 for the three day event with special rates for Non-Profits and kids. Information can be found at\u00a0http:\/\/ggw2016.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Girlfriend Getaway Weekend is being held at Harrah’s in South Lake Tahoe, Oct 7-9, 2016 with a lineup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5109,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions\/5109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}