Women Who Reign: Areeta Wong

“Have the confidence of a mediocre white man.” — a speaker from WiSTEM BARE 2017

Tell us about yourself along with a fun fact!
I’m currently a second semester junior (fun stuffs!). Additionally, I’m a Girls Who Code SIP Alum from Twitter 2016. The growth-focused environment and idea of constant learning fostered my love with the tech culture. SIP allowed me to delve into a professional workplace and develop friendships and mentor-mentee relationships. Shoutout to Erin! After seven weeks, I could proudly declare my major as Computer Science.

What’s your passion?
Over the years, hackathons have gained momentum through the widespread efforts of organizers and companies dedicated to providing sponsors and supporting the event. Even though the word “hacking” connotes a visual of large groups illegally breaking into a system, hackathons, in reality, act as an environment for all levels of experience and backgrounds to experiment and create with technology. Not only do these overnight events bring people together, hackathons allow ideas to come to life through various mentors, workshops, and hardware. Recently, hackathons have started to gear their inclusive environment to high school students; as a response, students themselves have started to organize high school only hackathons. Starting junior year, I attended a couple hackathons; at these…