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Campaign theme: #ChooseToChallenge

A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we're all responsible for our own thoughts and actions - all day, everyday. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women's achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world. From challenge comes change, so let's all choose to challenge.

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Update on She Sharp

This year is an exciting one for SheSharp, with five new ambassadors on board for 2021, bringing our executive team to eleven. An exciting new development is the launch of our monthly newsletter (which you are reading now!), where we will
publicise all of our events. We are aiming to hold an event every month, with
planning for our first four events already underway, including making a
reappearance at this year's Techweek 2021.

Every month we will profile one inspirational woman doing amazing work in tech in New Zealand. Our first profile is Vivian Chandra from OMGTech!

Vivian Chandra

Vivian is a Education Professional Development Lead from OMGTech, run by the Pam Fergusson
Charitable Trust.

My initial degree was in physics, but I never ended up doing anything in physics. I got a job as a computer technician at a high school, which was actually my old high school, because I bumped into my old teacher at the supermarket. I’ve always been super interested in tech, and getting my first computer really allowed me to learn more about it. That was my first proper desktop computer, called the VTech PreComputer 1000 - I’m sure we just got it from Farmers or The Warehouse or something, and it teaches you to type and had word games. The screen was like a calculator screen - that’s how old it was - and you could type one line of text. But the cool thing was it also taught you how to program and code, which you don’t really see anymore. So that’s how I learnt to code.

Read the full interview here!

Introducing our latest sponsor:
MYOB

MYOB is a leading business management platform with a purpose of helping more businesses in New Zealand and Australia start, survive and succeed. MYOB delivers end-to-end business management tools and accounting solutions for SMEs and the mid-market, direct to businesses as well as through a network of accountants, bookkeepers and consultants. MYOB operates across four key segments: Small and Medium Enterprises (SME), Enterprise, Financial Services and Practice.

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