Event Information

Zaporizhzhya State Engineering Academy, Girls in ICT Day 2017 in Zaporizhzhya

4/26/2017

CIS, Украина, Zaporozhskaya Gosudarstvennaya Inzhenernaya Akademiya (ZGIA), prospekt Sobornyy 226, Запорожье, Запорожская область, Украина

The third time Zaporizhzhya State Engineering Academy (ZSEA) organized activities for the Girls in ICT Day in Zaporizhzhya.

Software Engineering  students  on the base of  Software of Automated Systems   department in ZSEA organized a celebration connected with IT for Zaporizhzhya pupils  with support of Cisco company. More than 100 girls and boys from 9 Zaporizhzhya schools got pleasure from game zones and speaking with girls who have made a career in IT.

Firstly, guests had participated in  “Binary game”  competition, examined process of data translation playing the game named “Pitching Packet”.  Alumni of the department Software of Automated Systems demonstrated objects from the world of the Internet of Things and all guests had an opportunity to control this objects. Even teachers tried Virtual Reality Headset. VR Headset was given by iNCODE company and software was developed by the 1st  and 2nd year  Software Engineering students who had won Hachathon Like IT 2017.

The official part of the event was opened by Vladimir Podorozhko, business manager of the executive committee of Zaporizhzhya Regional Council.

 Pupils were told about the work and the path to success in IT by:

  • Julia Suprunovska – Technical Support Engineer of  Cisco Regional Support Center in Brussels (TS EMEA ACI – BE), Belgium;
  • Natalia Papysheva, Project Manager, SC “TASKOMBANK”, maintenance department of information systems, Kyiv (ZSEA alumnus);
  • Alexandra Grushko, Software Engineer at SUSQUEHANNA PACIFIC PTY LTD, Sydney, Australia (ZSEA alumnus);
  • Irina Popova, CTO of Light IT company,  Zaporizhzhya (ZSEA alumnus).

The event ended with a quiz on the subject of Internet of Things. Everyone could join the quiz on smartphone.

With pupils from Zaporizhzhya about 100 students at 10 local schools of Zaporizhzhya, Cherkasy, Kherson, Poltava and Lviv regions attended the event. These schools have joined the video broadcast meetings with our experts. Binary Game Competitions on local stages were organized by teachers of informatics.