Simplify Coding!
AbOUT Avanti SHARMA
Learn to code LIKe a Girl
I'm a pre-teen interested in the capability of Science and Technology. I enjoy sharing the excitement with my fellow peers.
My recent achievements :
My recent achievements :
Spoke at the Wonder Woman in Tech conference in June 2018 during London Tech Week. Here are some photos of the event
Selected as semifinalist in Technovation Challenge 2018 worldwide mobile app development contest. Our Team ACAD2018 built an app MyEco about the environment. Awaiting finalist results.
I am looking forward to speaking about how to make a Wonder Woman at the Wonder Woman in Technology Conference in London on June 15, 2018.
In March 2018, had been nominated for the Technology Playmaker award 'Rising Star of the Year' category. I was invited to an even tin London to celebrate International Women's Day with a gala dinner with 100 women in technology. I was inspired by Gilian Tans, President and CEO Booking.com. Randi Zuckerberg, CEO Zuckerberg Media encouraged me too! Infact she even invited me on her Business Radio show Dot Complicated. Here is the Radio Recap.
Was in the panel at the Women and Girls in Science conference in London on 10-11 Feb 2018. Also ran a Creative Computing workshop to inspire young girls to code.
Along with my brother, Leo, delivered pre-teen and teen view through our story at the Hub Dot 5th Anniversary event in London on Feb 9, 2018.
Delivered a talk on the subject of Entrepreneurship at Hub Dot event in Luxembourg on Nov 17, 2017 and has been invited to speak at their 5th Anniversary conference in February 2018 in London.
Shared my experience at the Scratch Conference in Budapest, Hungary in August 2017. Here are the photos of the event. Here is my talk and here is the Scratch conference video
Here are the coding events I have run :
- Hour of Code event at Microsoft Luxembourg aimed for 6-13 year old children, in December 2017.
- In October 2017 during EU Code Week, I ran a mobile app development session specifically aimed at young girls to inspire them to try coding. Another event I ran was Creative Computing workshop for 5-9 year olds.
- Coding session on Scratch Jr for the LuxKids Lab Flight Academy visit and coding event in June 2017.
- Introduction to Scratch session for pre-teens during the weekend Scratch Day celebrations in Luxembourg, in May 2017.
- In January 2017, I ran a paper based introduction to coding workshop, graph paper programming for the 6-8 year old Beavers and their siblings.
In April 2017, along with the Luxembourg team, I participated in the Technovation Challenge. We coded a mobile app and also wrote a business plan for it. Here are more details about our One-Click Safety App.