While coding competitions and hackathons have steadily increased in number, few women participate. Because these public events present viable opportunities to broaden participation in computing, we designed a hardware hackathon, called StitchFest, with a theme of “Wear & Care”. The rules, FAQs, and past winners of the StitchFest can be found here.
Contributors
Orkan Telhan, Gabriela Richard, Barrie Adleberg
Related Research
Richard, G., Kafai, Y. B., Adleberg, B., & Telhan, O. (2015). StitchFest: Diversifying a College Hackathon to Broaden Participation and Perceptions in Computing. In Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '15) (pp. 114-119). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. Link to PDF