Organisers
Our organisers are student volunteers who have worked together for several weeks to put this event together.
Lauren Alie is a PwC technology degree apprenticeship student at the University of Birmingham who is an advocate for diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. She is on the Code First Girls Fellowship programme and has been shortlisted as a finalist for the 2020 BAME Apprenticeship Awards. Outside of studying, she enjoys dancing, benchball and plays in a steel percussion orchestra, performing at Notting Hill Carnival several times.
Will Russell is the founder of Hackathons for Schools, as well as a European Coach for Major League Hacking and part of the program staff for the MLH Fellowship. He has been heavily involved in hackathons since he started university, as a hacker, mentor and organiser. He would love to bring more of these opportunities into sixth form and secondary schools! When he's not at a hackathon, he enjoys sailing around the UK.
Rob Hallam just finished his first year studying BSc Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. He's excited to be one of your student mentors. As for personal interests, his favourite programming language is Python, thinks Git is a godsend and loves sushi.
Jacob Wilson just finished his second year of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, on the degree apprenticeship programme with PwC. This means that from September he'll be on a placement year with their Network & Information Security team based in London.
He's been programming for six years now, mostly in Java and Python, but has also used C# and VB.net (quite a long time ago now). He knows a thing or two about web development, as well as Git and Google Cloud platform!
Valeria Popescu is originally from Romania. She just finished her first year studying Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. During this summer, she has been interning at ARM as a Software Engineer in the Self-Driving cars division. She loves competitive programming, organising events and being part of communities. In her free time, she likes playing chess, going to salsa and practising yoga.
Kim Nguyen is studying MA Classics at Durham University so she's not your typical I-love-coding-since-day-one kind of person. But she does love it now, so feel free to contact her if you have any questions about studying another subject whilst being involve in the tech scene and anything else!
Kriti Sapra is an incoming 3rd year Computing student at Imperial College London. She's incredibly passionate about increasing the diversity in the tech industry and has spent a lot of her time organising and volunteering at events where she can educate and inform students of all ages about the different routes in tech they can take. If you have a question please do not hesitate to contact her!
Abdullah Elsayed is a Computer Science student at the University of Birmingham and he works as a Web Developer at ZOOZ Group.
Charlie de Freitas is heading into his final year of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. He often ends up spending a lot of his time writing software and building stuff to make everything seem like it just works ™. The latest and greatest being this new and exciting ‘coder’ platform!
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