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High school girls from across Canada participate in Ottawa hackathon competition
Ottawa will host its first 24-hour, all-girls game jam for 70 high schoolers from around the country.
Game jams, also known as hackathons, are made up of students teaming up in groups of three to create a video game together from scratch.
The girls will stay up all night coding, collaborating, using their imagination and testing their creativity to potentially become future game developers, engineers and creatives.
The students are starting with no previous experience. They will learn to build the game through trial and error without someone assisting them through the process.
Organizers say the event shows all genders are capable of excelling in the profession in a heavily male-dominated industry.
Game jams are mainly held in the United States and around the world but there are very few in Canada. This will be the first in Ottawa.
The event takes place at Carleton University from Saturday afternoon to Sunday.
