Young Rewired State
| Founded | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Emma Mulqueeny |
| Type | Non-profit Organization |
| Focus | Young technical talent |
| Location | |
| Origins | Rewired State |
Area served | United Kingdom, Berlin, Singapore, New York, California, Kosovo |
| Method | Running events and schemes to facilitate further skills |
Key people | Emma Mulqueeny, Ruth Nicholls |
| Slogan | A global community of young digital makers aged 18 and under. |
| Website | yrs.io |
Young Rewired State (often stylized as YRS) is an organisation based in the United Kingdom, which run a events and schemes for technically-gifted young people aged 18 and under. It brings together young developers, designers, and those with other technical skills to build projects (mainly phone and web applications) that attempt to solve real world problems.[1] Most of the developers participating in Young Rewired State have taught themselves or learned coding skills outside the traditional school curriculum.[2] It was initially run as an annual event by its now-sister organisation Rewired State, and has since become its own separate entity.
Every year Young Rewired State holds a national hackathon where attendees across the UK take part in a competition to make an application that includes at least one piece of open government data. At the end of the week the contestants present their creations to a panel of judges and they can win prizes in a variety of categories. This event was initially called "Young Rewired State", but was renamed in 2012 to the "Festival of Code". Young Rewired State have also run their "Hyperlocal" scheme since October 2014, which aims to re-open the local Festival centres to provide support for local young "digital makers" throughout the year.
According to an article by Emma Mulqueeny, the founder of Young Rewired State, around 5% of the participants are female as of the 2012 event,[3] although this has since risen to over 30% as of March 2015.[4]
The current Managing Director of Young Rewired State is Ruth Nicholls,[5] a law graduate from Cambridge University, specialising in criminal law, penal policy and human rights.
References
- ↑ Kiss, Jemima (4 August 2011). "Young Rewired State 2011: Fresh blood, fresh data and fresh hacks". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
- ↑ Fox, Killian; Kappala-Ramsamy, Gemma; Sweeney, Kathy (31 March 2012). "Young coders: ideas for change". The Observer. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
- ↑ Mulqueeny, Emma (31 March 2012). "Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them off". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
- ↑ "Young Rewired State Tweet for International Women's Day 2015". Twitter.
- ↑ "Ruth's bio on the YRS Website".