International Women's Day Celebration 2016 by Women Techmakers Sri Lanka
Women Techmakers Sri Lanka held their first International Women’s Day celebration event with Google Developer Group (GDG) Sri Lanka on 12 th of March 2017 with 87 women participants from 9.30 am to 3.00 p.m. All the registered participants were women and the men on the floor were our invitees and GDG organizers only. This was my first ever experience as a Women Techmakers lead. We started our event at 9.30 am by Giving an Introduction about Women Techmakers and International Women's Day. The introductory session was ended by playing the greeting’ video sent us by Chelle Obligacion-Gray who is a Community Manager - APAC, Developer Ecosystem Team at GooglAPAC. Then we had a motivation speech by an invited female speaker (Ms.Oshana Dias, Vice President Human Resources at Brandix i3). Then it was time for an icebreaker which was to build an android bot. We asked them to form teams according to colour cards we gave them initially and provided all necessary ma...