Women Technopreneur 5 days Technical workshops under Girls in Tech program is conducted successfully in Kathmandu.
In Five days, 60 girls learn Game Development, App Development, Hardware Interfacing, Blogging and Entrepreneurship and finally graduated.
We believe all the girls have acquired skills to turn them into Technopreneur from the knowledge they have gain. There are lots of things still to be explored. We believe this is the push Miss Tech have done to promote women empowerment through technology.
Still 360 girls remained to be trained and motivated and develop themselves as Women Technopreneur.
On 15th February, 26 participants were present in the 1st shift and they are divided into 5 teams,as the opportunity to work with others, rather than on their own, can help an individual develop their interpersonal skills such as speaking and listening as well as team working skills such as leadership.Collaborating with others will help identify our own strengths and weaknesses and sharing and discussing ideas in groups can play a vital role in deepening our understanding of a particular subject area. After Group Division, then they entered with game development process beginning with scratch programming.
It covered:
-Introduction to programming
-Scratch overview
-Scratch blocks including motion, events,control sensing,operator and sound
In the same way 2nd shift including 21 participants,both shift participant were able to create sprite(or character) which could move according to their command and finally able to create a game (forest archery) .
On 16th February, MIT App Inventor workshop was conducted. Participants played with various designing components and were able to use all the blocks in their program. It included changing graphics, adding sounds, using sensors, and using blocks for programming for making apps. At the end, they became familiar with the process of making an application for android phone and were assigned a task of making other different android apps.
The Arduino workshop was on 17th February. There were two shifts each shift divided with 30 participation. After completion of game development phase, the girls start to learn about the basic of hardware. They were taught from basics of arduino, their commands & syntax. Firstly, they were taught about LED polarity, how to give power supply and about program code to simply turn led off and on.A microcontroller board called Arduino Uno was used during workshop period.Using serial communication they further control led by giving certain commands like when they gave a ‘a’ character then it turns led on and when they give ‘b’ character then it turns ed off. Further, they learned about sensors and their implementation.Girls also learned about interaction between software and hardware. Similarly the application they built from MIT-INVENTOR was implemented in Arduino workshop.Using this app and with the help of Bluetooth module they automatically control led light.
On 19th February, BLOG workshop was conducted after the successful completion of 3 days workshop. Participants explored their willingness and creativity and hence they got to know, they can create a blog with the same creativity.They got to know about blog and vlog along with their characteristics. They created a blog website in which the content was their own creativity and simultaneously they were provided the knowledge on adsense account. Finally they made their Adsense account and came to know that they will be able to earn money through blogging.
After the completion of the game development , android app development , hardware interfacing and blogging,participants began to learn about the entrepreneurship on 20th February.They learned about the characteristics ,habits of entrepreneurs and women entrepreneurs in Nepal. Also, they learned about women empowerment,public speaking and business skills. They used a business model canvas to create their business prototype which contained key components of business.By using blogging as a channel for the business ,in future,they can share the skills on scratch , mit app inventor and arduino , they have learnt in these four days.
On the fifth day of the technical workshop,they were able to create their business using blog and share their skills and ideas to empower other women and became a true entrepreneur.
