Hackathons are time-bounded collaborative events that have become a global phenomenon
and are adopted by researchers and practitioners in a plethora of contexts. Hackathon …

The research focuses on designing gender-neutral Software Engineering programs as a tool
to reach gender balance in this domain. There is a general lack of female students and …

Context The gender imbalance in technology, sciences, and engineering is a global
problem and according to the statistics, this really has not changed much in the last thirty …

Hackathons are events that originated as competitions for programmers but transformed into
project-oriented events given in different contexts and with different sets of goals. Despite …

This article describes the expectations and experiences of young (16 to 19 year old) digital
game jam participants (N= 34) who attend Finnish general upper secondary schools. Game …

Our work builds knowledge on gender-neutral hackathons in educational context.
Hackathon itself is an intensive project-based event, requiring participants to make results in …

Hackathons and game jams are informal venues to engage STEAM (Science, Technology,
Engineering, Arts, and Math) students in practical learning and nurturing interdisciplinary …

This paper examines the profile of 10 women* makers attending Schmiede, a 10-day maker
festival, which is unique not least due to its almost equal gender distribution. Drawing on …

Time-bounded collaborative events bring together participants from different backgrounds to
address a problem by creating a computational artifact over a short period of time (eg, one or …

Today, sustainability in higher education is a key factor for our society, and women play a
fundamental role. However, gender faces a series of inequalities in this field of action, and …