Cambodian Schoolgirl Encourages Female "Techies"
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 2:54 pm
One Young Girl’s Ambition to Promote Cambodian Females in Tech
Kao Menghorng, a grade 11 student at Peam Chi Korng High School in Kampong Cham Province, hope women can use tech to solve their communities’ problems. Photo provided
BY: Sam Sopich January 19, 2022 5:41 PM
As a promising grade 11 student, Kao Menghorng hopes to prove that girls and women can break gender stereotypes by succeeding in Cambodia’s tech sector by entering the Technovation contest this year
PHNOM PENH--More young people, especially women, should turn to tech to solve their communities’ problems. That’s the message from Kao Menghorng, a grade 11 student at HE Peam Chikang High School in Kampong Cham Province whose passion for coding has seen her win many awards.
She took home the gold medal at the Angkor Mathematics Competition, along with the Local Champion of Technovation Girls Cambodia, while coming second in the Green Environment I Dream contest, second place in Code for Girls and first place in App E-STEM, not to mention numerous competitions run by her school.
“I really love technology as it’s always updating and innovating, but mostly it needs mathematic and ICT skills that I can apply in practice,” Menghorng said. “Technology can solve human’s problems.”
Menghorng discovered her passion for coding in grade 8, when she started learning online via Code.org, but despite the criticism and lack of encouragement among her peers, she has persisted and is now applying for the Technovation Girls Cambodia program, which challenges contenders to write code that addresses problems within their community.
“I vision myself as becoming an expert computer scientist and software engineer because, currently, I can make apps using Java language such as Green Earth, E-STEM, E-listening and speaking and All about chemistry app. I’m really excited when I think about being a code writer,” she said.
Menghorng said that few girls or women participate in the development of technology in Cambodia, but this is something she wants to see change. She said she wants to push other girls to get involved and step up to change society’s perception of them while also doing their part to solve problems—Cambodia will need such experts to compete as the Industrial Revolution 4.0 changes the way we interact with technology.
Full article: https://cambodianess.com/article/one-yo ... es-in-tech
Kao Menghorng, a grade 11 student at Peam Chi Korng High School in Kampong Cham Province, hope women can use tech to solve their communities’ problems. Photo provided
BY: Sam Sopich January 19, 2022 5:41 PM
As a promising grade 11 student, Kao Menghorng hopes to prove that girls and women can break gender stereotypes by succeeding in Cambodia’s tech sector by entering the Technovation contest this year
PHNOM PENH--More young people, especially women, should turn to tech to solve their communities’ problems. That’s the message from Kao Menghorng, a grade 11 student at HE Peam Chikang High School in Kampong Cham Province whose passion for coding has seen her win many awards.
She took home the gold medal at the Angkor Mathematics Competition, along with the Local Champion of Technovation Girls Cambodia, while coming second in the Green Environment I Dream contest, second place in Code for Girls and first place in App E-STEM, not to mention numerous competitions run by her school.
“I really love technology as it’s always updating and innovating, but mostly it needs mathematic and ICT skills that I can apply in practice,” Menghorng said. “Technology can solve human’s problems.”
Menghorng discovered her passion for coding in grade 8, when she started learning online via Code.org, but despite the criticism and lack of encouragement among her peers, she has persisted and is now applying for the Technovation Girls Cambodia program, which challenges contenders to write code that addresses problems within their community.
“I vision myself as becoming an expert computer scientist and software engineer because, currently, I can make apps using Java language such as Green Earth, E-STEM, E-listening and speaking and All about chemistry app. I’m really excited when I think about being a code writer,” she said.
Menghorng said that few girls or women participate in the development of technology in Cambodia, but this is something she wants to see change. She said she wants to push other girls to get involved and step up to change society’s perception of them while also doing their part to solve problems—Cambodia will need such experts to compete as the Industrial Revolution 4.0 changes the way we interact with technology.
Full article: https://cambodianess.com/article/one-yo ... es-in-tech