Since the beginning of the California school shut down in March, Alyssa S. Ho, a junior at California School of Arts, decided to create her own opportunities while all school events and STEM competitions got cancelled.
She reached out to her Stanford AI4All friends from the summer before and formed Full Steam Ahead, a team of six aspiring programmers and designers, ages 14-16 years old from California, New Jersey and Sweden. They wanted to connect girls to STEM with an app, but with the continued mandate on social distancing, Ho directed her team to host their first all-girls international hackathon instead.