Women Who Reign: Caitlin Stanton

“Learn and grow and share with each other, providing us all with a supportive group of friends to fall back on no matter what.” — Caitlin Stanton

Tell us a little about yourself along with a fun fact:
I am a sophomore at Cornell University, where I am pursuing a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as minors in Computer Science and Business. I am the faculty relations director for Women in Computing at Cornell, the founder and president of a new, future chapter of the Alpha Omega Epsilon engineering sorority, and a sports writer for the Cornell Daily Sun.

I’ve been involved in tech since the summer of 2014, when I was a student in the Girls Who Code summer immersion program. I spent 7 weeks at the Goldman Sachs HQ in New York City, and it was there that I not only learned the fundamentals of coding, but also developed my soft skills and made lifelong friends.

That jump-started my passion for tech, which I followed up on by taking computer science classes in school and getting super involved in the hackathon scene, so involved, in fact, that I helped found two hackathons: def hacks() — a 24 hour hackathon for high school students by high school student students — and PixieHacks — a hackathon to immerse females in tech.