Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) is an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

It aims to increase the profile of women in STEM and, in doing so, create new role models who will encourage more girls into STEM careers and support women already working in STEM.

Our company is celebrating this day the second year in a row, together with young girls from high schools around Tuzla, and colleagues from other firms.

We tend to organize interesting presentations for girls, to share our knowledge and experiences with them, as well as to encourage them to find their way in this business if that is their dream.

Women in computing have shaped the evolution of information technology. They were among the first programmers in the early 20th century and contributed substantially to the industry.

As technology and practices altered, the role of women as programmers has changed, and the recorded history of the field has downplayed their achievements. ALD is an event that really helps us motivate female popularity to step in the world of computer science, and our company is happy to help young women whose dream is to work as a software developer.

As part of the 24th Summer University of Tuzla 14.6.2019. At the Multimedia Hall of the University of Tuzla, organized by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Tuzla, a series of expert lectures was held under the joint title “ICT and Assistive Technology in the Inclusion Process in Higher Education”. Our colleague Sulejman Delić, bach.eng.el. has delivered a lecture on “Amazon Echo ‘Alexa’ for the People with Disabilities”. The lecture covered the basic principles of Alexa’s work and a demonstration of some of her “powers” as a virtual assistant.

“Working with Alexa is still something new in our area, and I wanted to share my knowledge and experience with anyone who has shown an interest in it,” said our colleague Suleiman.

Upon completion of this successful event, lectors were presented with a “thank you note” and certificates were given to the participants.

We are developers 2019 was held in Berlin on June 6st and 7st.

Once a year, 10,000+ developers gather in Berlin for the world’s largest developer event, We Are Developers World Congress. At the largest developers congress in Europe, software engineers from all over the world get together to share their knowledge and learn from each other.

This year, six of us got a chance to go to Berlin. The event was a pleasure and a great experience.

The opening ceremony was held by famous chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov. The emphasis of the speech was on the fact that the creativity of people in the world of smart machines is very important and that technology needs a human factor. According to Kasparov, we should be aware that AI will never replace us, but instead, we will strengthen and improve AI by adding human creativity to it.

“AI is augmented. We aren’t being replaced. We’re being promoted!” – Garry Kasparov

After that, visitors could choose between 8 different parallel lectures, divided into blocks. We attended multiple interesting lectures and enjoyed hearing about the latest features.

The WAD conference was all about sharing ideas, meeting new people and learning new technologies.

UNTIL NEXT YEAR!

As of today, the Tuzla’ Chemical School is richer for ten desktop computers that will mainly be used by web design students. It is a gift from a company with which the School has previously signed a collaboration agreement, based on which the students in this programming activity will undertake hands-on teaching.

Since the last year, students of the Tuzlas’ Chemical School, thanks to this agreement with CA design, have a student traineeship at not only web design but programming studies as well.

At that student traineeship, they have a mentor that we have assigned to them with whom they will work on real projects so that we can direct them as best we can into the work they will one day pursue, the job they are educating themself for. – Gabriela Andreas, marketing manager at CA Design told RTVTK.

The expansion of cooperation between the school and this company, which builds its market mainly in the United States, is reflected by the donation of 10 desktop computers that were handed over today with the installed operating systems that were handed to school management.

– It is one act of goodwill from the company business owners to improve the working conditions of other students in these studies as a graphics technician – web designer at our school. We have been educating students for these studies for the past 10 years, and this year I can say, that there has been an expansion both in the enrollment for this direction of studies and for the interest of certain companies to provide our students with student traineeship, says Arif Švraka, director of the Tuzlas’ Chemical School

With the involvement of even more students in projects together with 60 donor company employees, these partners will continue to cooperate in the years to come.

The conference “Youth in the Digital Age” was organized by the EU Info center and Bit Alliance in Tuzla on November 27, 2018, at the National Theater Tuzla. More than 300 high school students from Tuzla, Zivinice, Lukavac, Odzak, and Brcko had the opportunity to learn more about the opportunities of the new technologies in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the world.

Our colleague Faruk Ahmic shared his success story with the students. He gave a motivational speech about his beginnings in the IT world and what it took to be where he is now.

The main goal of this conference was to motivate young people to develop their careers in current digital industries that are close tot hem and to provide answers to questions about education and employment. Also, the goal was to present the careers and life stories of young generations at different levels of development and areas of the IT sector, giving participants, high school students, the answer to the question of starting a career in attractive sectors such as IT, and how to refine the skills that will be needed in the labor market in the near future.