Cupcakes, Code & Unicorns

On Saturday 22nd of June, the Elements office hosted the first Almere edition of Django Girls, a free programming workshop for women.

Django Girls is an amazing initiative with the aim to promote diversity in tech industry by empowering and inspiring women to learn programming. Thanks to providing free resources, tools and support, this community has enabled countless groups of dedicated volunteers to organize workshops around the world.

For some time now, there has been a growing interest in our team to contribute to a positive change in tech community by sharing our knowledge and dedicating our time. Organizing a Django Girls workshop was a perfect opportunity for this! We are so grateful that Elements fully supported this initiative and agreed to host and sponsor the event.

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With an enthusiastic team of 16 volunteers and 23 motivated ladies we spent a day full of learning, interesting conversations and making new friends, while savouring delicious cupcakes made by talented Amy from ByEems.

We kicked off the workshop with a warm welcome, caffeine boost and an inspirational talk from our guest speaker Ana Maldonado, sharing her journey from chemistry to becoming the lead of the Data Science team at Altius.

Ana, thank you so much for being part of this workshop and proving to our Django Girls that with the right amount of dedication and focus it is possible to turn your career around.