Girls Programming League
GPL Challenge 2022
GPL Challenge 2022
About Us
We are a team of high school volunteers who are passionate to spread of love for computer science and technology to more people in our community.
GPL Challenge 2022
Our 2022 virtual Girls Programming League Challenge will be on Sunday, September 25, 2022. This year the theme of our contest will be CS & Medicine!
The GPL Challenge is a one-day event comprising a programming contest, keynote speech, panel discussion, and awards, with the goal to inspire and empower young women to participate in computer science, technology, and AI. The competition will provide female students with the opportunity to solve creative programming problems in either a novice or advanced division, while the keynote speech and panel discussion aim to give the participants insight into the current state of the field from a female perspective.
REGISTRATION LINK: tiny.cc/gpl2022
REGISTRATION LINK FOR SPEAKER SESSIONS ONLY: tiny.cc/gpl2022speakers
2022 SCHEDULE
8:30am - 9:00am Check-in
9:00am - 11:00am Contest
11:15am - 12:00pm Keynote Speech
12:00pm -12:15pm Sponsor talks
12:15pm -1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm Women in STEM Panel Discussion: CS & Medicine
2:00pm - 2:30pm Closing Remarks + Awards
OUR 2022 SPEAKERS
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Maria Nattestad
Women in STEM Panel: CS & Medicine
Dr. Natalie Pageler
Johanna Kim
Anita Chetty
Maria Nattestad did her bachelors in biology and her PhD in bioinformatics. She built algorithms and visualization tools for complex genomic data. After graduate school she started her own business making software for scientists and teaching bioinformatics online. She is now a software engineer at Google Research, continuing to build open-source software.
Dr. Natalie Pageler is a Clinical Professor of Pediatric Critical Care and Chief Medical Information Officer at Stanford. She has a master’s degree in medical education and focused on computerized clinical decision tools for her thesis. Dr. Pageler has shaped the curriculum for clinical informatics and co-founded the Stanford Clinical Informatics Fellowship.
Johanna Kim is the Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging, focusing on operations to optimize resources to accelerate the development of AI applications. Her passion lies in building programs and leading teams through research. Johanna holds a Masters in public health from UCLA.
Prior to joining Harker, Ms. Chetty was a learning strategist for the Calgary Board of Education. In her 20 years at Harker, she has taught biology and human anatomy and leads the Harker Research Symposium. Ms. Chetty also won the Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction and the Excellence in Teaching Award and co-authored McGraw-Hill publications.
Our Program
CS/Programming Classes
We provide free programming classes (Java, Python, etc) and classes on AI at local libraries. We also guide students to work on hands-on activities.
Annual Programming Contest
The GPL challenge is an annual event that seeks to bring girls from different communities together to share their passion for programming. It includes a programming contest, a set of workshops, a keynote speech, and a panel discussion with women in STEM and computer science.
The 2022 Challenge, with the theme Medicine & CS, will be held on September 25!
Our Impact
Through teaching middle and high school students programming and STEM classes, we motivate them to learn and keep challenging themselves.