Lauren Suna Wins "Best Hardware Hack" at RIT's WiC Hacks Event

2017 Mar 16

Lauren Suna, an Emerging Media major at Ithaca College, was one of four IC students from Ithaca College's Women in Computing organization to win "Best Hardware Hack" at the Rochester Institute of Technology's fourth annual WiC Hacks event on Feb. 25 and 26. The competition, which aims to inspire young women to explore the world of technology, challenges participants to build programs in just 24 hours.

Lauren McGrath, Lauren Suna, Tea Mdevadze and Mia Kimmich Mitchell won for Time Out, a Pebble watch app that allows women to quickly notify emergency contacts of their safety level.

“Women hackathons show that there are other women who are incredibly passionate about the tech industry,” said Suna. “Being in a competition made up of just women programmers was also inspiring, because I saw that we can be creative and create innovative products that will help people.”