Teens in Tech, a Talk with Sophie Houser co-founder of Tamponrun.com

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In collaboration with the IRC, Information Resource Center, we are glad to invite you to a talk by Sophie Houser, a very active teenager in the US.

Sophie’s a very accomplished 19-year-old. She worked at a startup in NYC two summers ago, worked at Facebook headquarters in Silicon Valley last summer and will be working at Facebook in NYC this coming summer. She is a sophomore computer science major at Brown University in Providence, where she tutored low-income kids in an after-school program last year and is running an after-school Engineering Club at a middle school this semester.

In summer 2014, she created a video game with her friend Andrea that went viral, was written up all over the world, won a Webby Award (the “Academy Awards” of the internet) and a Tribeca Disruptive Innovator’s Award.

Download their game on: http://www.tamponrun.com

Sophie and Andrea gave a TEDx talk right after their game went viral:

http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/What-Tampons-Have-to-Do-with-Te