And I haven’t even got to the failures yet. It wasn’t all doom and gloom though. I actually found remote schooling really handy because I could finish my work a lot more quickly, focus on my coding projects, and still manage to get good end of year grades. In fact, just before the lockdown the Young Coders MeetUp (YCM) managed to run a 2 day event at the Tate Modern (Tate Modern is an institution that houses, in a network of four art museums, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport), exploring Machine Learning
and celebrating Women in Tech for International Women’s Day. Looking back we are really glad we did it as it was the last time we all met up socially before the lockdown (https:// youngcodersmeetup.wixsite.com/ ycm-uk/post/young-coders-curateai-event-tate-modern). FAILURES My first failure was the TeensInAI #YouthVsCOVID hackathon. Here I was part of one of three groups from our YCM that entered this competition. My group comprised of three other members: Thomas back end developer, Adonai and Amelie who worked on design, market research and developed the website. I was the team leader and just covered all the areas, but
mainly worked on front-end, AI components, surveys and user feedback. We came up with an AI app called CoWA (Coronavirus Wellbeing App - https:// youngcodersmeetup3.wixsite.com/ cowa) which aimed to help young people manage their physical and emotional wellbeing during lockdown using an integrated AI sentiment analysis feedback loop. Long story short, we failed to get in the top three, which to me was incredibly disappointing; three solid hackathon intensive weeks for nothing. I was not happy and to be honest I felt cheated - not necessarily true, but that's how you feel in that moment. The second failure came a month later, in June, after 6 months of working on a submission, based on
PHOTOS SUBMITTED: TATE-MODERN YCM EVENT
PHOTO SUBMITTED: AMELIE, FEMI, ADONAI,, THOMAS OF YCM, TEENSINAI #YOUTHVSCOVID HACKATHON.
PHOTO SUBMITTED: ADONAI, YCM, RUNNING SESSION
PHOTO SUBMITTED: FEMI, YCM, TEENSINAI #YOUTHVSCOVID HACKATHON.
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