Women Who Reign: Sharon Lin

“A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things.” — Grace Hopper

Tell us about yourself along with a fun fact!

I’m a senior at Stuyvesant High School, and the Founder and Executive Director of StuyHacks, Organizer of BitxBit Camp, and a member of the IT Department of Stuyvesant’s Student Union.

I discovered computer science almost by accident, after finding my dad’s old C programming book in our family attic. Afterwards, I started working on online courses such as Codeacademy to learn more skills, as well as basic HTML/CSS for web design.

When I moved to New York City and started high school, I took my first official computer science course and fell in love with the field. I didn’t see computer science as anything

more than a hobby at the time, so this was an incredible revelation for me, and I’ve since never looked back. I’ve had the opportunity to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration as a Google Scholar, as well as speak at Lesbians Who Tech, World Maker Faire, and present my work at Emoticon and other…