AdaAwards

11/10/2021

"Digital generation. Our generation."

19/05/2021

🙋‍♀️ Are you between 15 and 25 years old and interested in topics ( powered by and ) for social innovation?

📝 project partners launched a survey to learn what drives girls and women towards these subjects and what kind of support they need to thrive!

🔗 Share your feedback here: https://forms.gle/JpCVfyms2sextnFE6

👉 The results of the survey will lay the foundations for an innovative curriculum that will offer a combination of hands-on activities, training on digital, innovation and environmental awareness skills, problem-solving and co-creation of prototypes to address climate change and drive environmental transformation.

13/07/2020

News from the Digital Leadership Institute -

Welcome to news from the Digital Leadership Institute - promoting inclusive digital transformation around the world since 2014!

25/05/2020

✨ We continue to be inspired by the amazing that are part of our community! ✨

Taira - one of the youngest 🏆 winners of the 2019 European Digital Girl of the Year - is now being nominated in the category "Hero of the Children" at the Golden Apple Awards 2020 for her projects aimed at introducing disadvantaged children to the world of tech.

👉 Support your favorite candidate here (votes are closing tonight): http://www.1june.nmd.bg/glasuvajte/

13/02/2020

🎉 Happy international Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🎉

On this occasion, the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Mariya Gabriel launched the 7th edition of the 🏆EU Prize for Women Innovators 👩‍🔬 awarded to four incredible women entrepreneurs working to make the world a better place and inspiring others to follow in their footsteps.

🔗Apply at the following link by the 21st of April:

Annual cash prizes for the most innovative women entrepreneurs who founded a successful company and brought an innovation to market.

07/11/2019

at the 2019 European Ada Awards, a few weeks ago, where we met the outstanding finalists of the and awards 🏆

👉 Here's the interview of Alai Miranda, one of the 🥇 winners of the award in the “15-17 Years Old” category in the 🇪🇸 Spanish journal about her passion for technolology: 🔗 https://bit.ly/2NppZke

La adolescente de 15 años pone en marcha una escuela para niños de vuelo de drones

18/10/2019

🎉 THANK YOU to all amazing participants to the 2019 European Ada Awards ceremony, an evening filled with emotion and inspiration!

Congratulations to the winners of the awards, but also to all of those supporting them on their path towards digital excellence! 👏

🔗Read more about the ceremony here: https://bit.ly/33FwIvS

GSMA Europe Google Digitaal Atelier / Atelier Digital Deloitte Belgium Amazon Web Services Women in Tech.Brussels CEPIS European Schoolnet European Centre for Women and Technology DIGITALEUROPE Global Wo.Men Hub

2019 European Ada Awards Ceremony & Reception

18/10/2019

2019 European Ada Awards Ceremony & Reception

11/10/2019

Meet the finalists for the 🏆 award:

👉 At the age of 8 Tayra participated in the IT Znayko award contest and won a prize for an original idea and, as a member of the Coder Dojo club, won an award from the Bulgarian version of Coolest Projects Sofia 2017. She was also awarded at an international competition in Dublin with her awesome project ABCD Code, which is a Scratch game developed to help children learn about healthy eating and the benefits of fruit and vegetables.

👉 Selin is 13 years old and loves building robots and coding. Selin won first prize in the Hardware category at Coderdojo’s Coolest Projects International in 2018 with iC4U, her robot guide dog for the visually impaired. In 2019 she received a 100% educational scholarship and attended a Robotic and Engineering summer camp held at Stanford University. She is presently working on the second version of her robot guide dog, the Raspberry Pi version and on a robot that aims to make life easier in schools and hospitals.

👉 Anne has been a member of Coderdojo Belgium since 2014. In 2015 she was confronted with a friend who had to stay at the hospital for quite a long time. She proposed to start an initiative called Clinicoders (facebook.com/clinicoders) to bring technology and programming to children in the hospital. Monthly, together with friend, she animates children patients with programming and robots. Clinicoders also donates resources to hospitals to educate technology and programming in their schools.

👉 Alai’s passion for STEM began when she was 7 years old. She has experience coding in multiple code languages, and has attended STEM workshops from textile technology to designing and 3D prototyping. In 2019, she was invited to speak at the Amazon Web Services Summit in Madrid to discuss her experience as a girl in technology. Additionally, this past May she was invited by Google to Women TechMakers Alicante to discuss her experience and future projects.

🔗 Find out more about their great stories and projects here: http://adaawards.com/

🎉 Come and meet them on the 16 October at the Ada Awards Ceremony : Bit.ly/EUAda19launch

11/10/2019

Meet the finalists for the 🏆 award:

👉 Nadia’s work focuses on improving the lives of vulnerable groups, through education and creating more interest and enthusiasm surrounding careers within entrepreneurship and the digital sector. Today, she is an avid technologist social/tech entrepreneur founder of SheLeadsDigital, educator, a single mom, and studying cyber-security who seeks to help people evolve in a fast-paced world of technology and business.

👉 Dee is the Founder, CEO & Creative Director of Erase All Kittens – an adventure game designed to give girls the confidence to code, whilst teaching digital and 21st Century skills. She and her team spent 12 months interviewing hundreds of students before designing their product, in order to create a coding tool that girls genuinely love. EAK has 150,000 players in over 100 countries, and 95% of girls want to learn more about coding after playing.

👉 Eva is the founder of GirlCode, an international nonprofit who aims to reduce the gender gap in the STEM industry by offering free coding lessons to girls of age 7 to 17 in their schools. She also created a mentorship program through which GirlCode students can meet entrepreneurs, scientists, and all-around girl bosses in order to help them find their STEM superstar.

🔗 Find out more about their inspirational stories here: http://adaawards.com/

🎉 Come and meet them on the 16 October at the Ada Awards Ceremony : Bit.ly/EUAda19launch

08/10/2019

Happy ! See you next week in Brussels for our 6th European ceremony celebrating top girls and women in digital fields!

The creator of the first recognised algorithm talks, via her letters, about her colleague Charles Babbage, the Analytical Engine and what the future holds