Canadian High School Students Recognized for Technological Achievements
Three Canadian High School Students Recognized for Technological Achievements
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Canada proudly announces the 2023 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing (AiC) national recipients, honoring three high school students from three provinces.
Each year, The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) recognizes Canadian high school students in grades 9 through 12 who are women, genderqueer, or non-binary are eligible to receive recognition for their aptitude and aspirations in technology and computing, as demonstrated by their computing experience, computing-related activities, leadership experience, tenacity in the face of barriers to access, and plans for post-secondary education.
The entire NCWIT AiC program platform is supported generously by Apple. AiC also receives support for specific national program elements. The NCWIT Award for AiC is sponsored by Apple, Bank of America, Microsoft, and Motorola Solutions Foundation.
2023 National Winners
Ammielle Wambo Becker
REGION: ONTARIO
Ammielle is an ambitious and dedicated high school senior currently exploring bioinformatics and machine learning. She prefers to work on data exploration and analysis projects in Python, but she also codes websites and applications with JS and HTML/CSS. She is passionate about solving real-world problems using technology and has won hackathons like the TKS Moonshot hackathon with her bioprinting idea and the RBC NGI hackathon with her youth resource hub. Ammielle has spoken to over 3,000 people at virtual panels on Women in STEM and Diversity in Quantum Computing. In the future, she hopes to go to university and combine computer science and engineering with biology.
Louise Ho
REGION: WEST COAST
Louise has been coding in the since she was eight years old, which was when she decided that was what she wanted to do as a career. She has begun to fulfill that dream by majoring in computer science after high school graduation, where she plans to go on exchange, participate in a co-op program, minor in health science or economics, and potentially get a graduate degree. Currently, she teaches Python, web development, robotics, and digital design at Under the GUI Academy, a coding school with multiple locations across British Columbia. She has been a part of their community for seven years, first as a student and a volunteer teaching assistant, and now a paid instructor for the past couple years. Over the years, Louise has competed in the Canadian Computing Competition (top 10%), Technovation (bronze), and various robotics competitions as well. Outside of computing, she plays beach and indoor volleyball at the top national level and helps coach the varsity teams at her high school. Another passion of hers is reading and writing: she has written a 65k word novel and participated in the Vancouver Writers Fest. Her love of literature has helped develop her communication skills that are crucial in the technology space.
Nour Mohamed
REGION: ATLANTIC
Nour is 16-year-old student in 12th grade at Citadel High school. She accomplished a lot with regard to technology, mathematics, and engineering. Nour participated in multiple hackathons, including Diversity and Inclusion, Banking and Finance, as well as the NGI RBC hackathon. She also got featured and worked along with GDG Halifax, Women in Tech. Nour has participated in Hour Of Code featuring Microsoft; an hour long program getting you started into the basics, and help you creatively and initially build a project from zero. Nour has also participated in Young Women As Engineers in DAL and received a set of electronics, including an Arduino set that she programs and develops on constantly. She got into graphic design and visual art too, which became a day-to-day hobby and improved her time management skills. She digitally draws, studies 3d models and elements in various Adobe products such as Illustrator, After Effects, Photoshop, and different plugins like Element 3d, Orb, Duik Bass, and Flow while building her portfolio. Nour has interned with ATLAS space academy, working with microprocessors, and exploration of electrical engineering. Nour plans on participating in the Skills NS and Skills Canada 2d animation contest. Nour is studying and developing early digital and technical skills to become an Electrical and Electronics Engineer at Dalhousie University. By getting in touch and involved with a lot of mechanics and sciences, she is willing to focus more on innovation, enhancing her creativity, looking at different perspectives, and developing concepts both digitally and in real life to help her and others who would find a potential in this mindset. She will focus on more math related formats and projects, such as wirings, calculating motor functions, width, depth, and height, reference images, building and construction, and much more to help visualize, set, and solve any problems that come aboard.
