Why All India Women Hackathon ?

Diversity in STEM in India - An alarming low percentage of women pursue STEM careers

Women Engineering Women in Engineering

Graduates Careers
29.4%
49.6%

Source (Society of Women Engineers - 2018)

What can Corporates do about this ?

● Get 1000 women to become passionate about engineering and pursue STEM careers
● Increase confidence for job interviews by exposure to team work / solutioning /
pitching in a hackathon
● Create Ripple effect to scale Engineering Women power in India
 About the Hackathon
Hackathon Details:
● Online event on Aug 5-6 2023 with 1000+ college women from Top 100 colleges in India
● Expecting 2000+ registrations, 1000+ participants, ~20-30% underserved (Annual Family income < INR 2.5 Lakhs)
● Keynotes, Women in Tech Panels, Training for participants, 24 hours of Coding
● Participants pitch their project, compete and win cash prizes
● Serve as Primer for Smart India Hackathon

Why Sponsor?
● Encourage gender diversity and help uplift women from underserved communities
● Build brand reputation and promote innovation
● Consider winners/participants/registrants for Internship/Placements
● Engage in impactful Corporate Social Responsibility
● Skill based employee engagement / mentoring opportunities

Gold Sponsorship
Employee Volunteering - Mentors (Up to 50), Website / Social Platinum Sponsorship
Media Recognition, Total of 5 emails about your company to all Everything in Gold Sponsorship + Keynote Speech, 5-Min
registrations (Total expected 5000 plus ) and 1000+College Video / Speech about your company, Employee Volunteering
Deans and Principals, Access to participants data to consider (Up to 100) - Women-in-Tech Panelists / Mentors / Judges
participants for internship/placements
 Hackathon Timeline
May June Juy 2023 29-30th 5-6th 17th
2023 2023 July 2023 August August
2023

Multiplying the Applications Pre-hackathon Hackathon

Outreach Outreach Shortlisting Events Hackathon Day Closure

● Sponsors ● Sponsors ● Applications ● How to win a ● Hackathon Kick ● Offline judging

Outreach Finalized reviewed and Hackathon off of pitch videos
● 1000+ ● Target 2000+ shortlisted with session by SSF ● Keynote ● Winners
Engineering registrants ideas submitted ● “Women in speeches / declared
colleges through multiple (1200) Tech” panel Videos by ● Aug 31 -
Outreach avenues. ● Engage discussion Platinum Certificates and
● Social Media ● Request to registrations involving women partners Prize money
Campaign submit project ● Participant leaders from ● Participant disbursed by
started ideas guidebook to be partner engagement end of August
shared to the organisations over Discord & ● Aug 31 - CSR
participants. ● “How to mentor WhatsApp Impact Report /
● Mentors/Judges / judge” session during Summary /
to be finalised organised for all ● Mentor Photos , Media
from the partner mentors / engagement collateral, Social
organisations judges over WhatsApp Media / Linked
● Speakers to be ● Team Formation ● Final Pitch video In posts
finalized ● Mapping submitted Aug published
mentors with 6th 10 AM ● Sep 30 - 5 Min
teams Video released
 Past Successes
SSF has executed 100+ STEM Programs by partnering with organizations such as Google,
Facebook, IBM, Intel, Amgen, Netscout and others including 20+ hackathons
Netscout Tech for Good Hackathon
AMD All Girls Hackathon (Dec 2022)
IBM Hackathon (October 2022) (Jan 2023)
3 minute AMD Hackathon Video
2 Min IBM Worldwide Datathon Video 3 Min Netscout Pune Hackathon Video
● 100 girls in person in Belgaum,
● 150+ students in person at Trinity, Pune
● 400 students in person - Bengaluru, Karnataka
● 150 students online from 15 states in India
Chennai ● 100 girls online worldwide
● 25+ Netscout mentors volunteered
● 200 students online from 8 countries ● 20+ AMD volunteers as speakers,
● Winners considered for internship and
mentors and judges.
● Winners considered for Internships placements
● 30+ IBM Employees were speakers /
KLA Hackathon (Feb 2023): KLA All Women Hackathon Video
mentors / judges
50+ in-person Women - Executed in person at the KLA Office, Chennai

“If we get some of them to join Netscout in the future, they will “Nice to see so many girls coming together with so many ideas
bring good ideas as well as energy to the organization” - Mentor which are interesting & going to change the world and make an
- Principal Service Delivery Engineer, Netscout impact" - Mentor, KLA Employee
 Sample STEM Partner Reference: IBM
Shooting Stars has been working with IBM for the past 2.5 years and has conducted IBM Hackathon (October 2022)
250 students from PES university, Bengaluru, 150 students from Jaya
● 4 IBM Z Day Events and 2 IBM z Datathons Engineering College, Chennai and 200 students online from across the world
● 4000 Registrants Overall – with about final 1000 participants for all above programs participated. Participants from 8 countries, 30+ IBM mentors volunteered,
Winners considered for Internships, 2 Min IBM Worldwide Datathon Video
● Total of about 60+ IBM Volunteers part of all the above events
● Most winners for the datathon, got to continue to work the next 6 months with IBM Employee Mentors to complete their project – References –
Vaidehi, Ilakkiya, Malay (from 2021) can be called upon for references. They also served as coaches for the 2022 event.
Purpose of the Partnership :
● Youth Education and IBM Platform advocacy
Partner Process :
● After the initial introduction of the organizations, IBM wanted to run these programs with a trusted partner who had the connections with the
youth community – Shooting Stars had already run 20+ hackathons at this point with about 10,000 middle / high school students and about 400
college students globally (India, USA, Africa and few other countries). After a few rounds of discussion with the execution team at SSF, IBM
moved forward with all of the programs in 2021 and 2022
● Bi monthly zoom calls were held 6 months prior to the event and weekly calls 3 months prior to the event – with a clear playbook and milestone
project plan
● Outreach included multiple social media / LinkedIn posts leading up to the event
● SSF owned the outreach and engagement of participants, IBM owned the technology teaching, platform, mentoring during the hackathon and
judging with about 30+ IBM employees for every event
● SSF had about 3 employees working on the event, along with other youth officers running the program end to end – outreach, participant
engagement, speed teaming, hackathon platform, running the day agenda, heading key events, opening and closing ceremony, distribution of
certificates and prizes, impact collateral along with summary deck and 3 min videos