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Join Our First-Ever WeCoded Challenge – Celebrating Underrepresented Voices in Tech Through Stories & Code!
Publish Date: Mar 5
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We're excited to announce the launch of our first-ever WeCoded Challenge—a new way to celebrate diversity, inclusion, and empowerment in the tech industry!
The Evolution from SheCoded to WeCoded
Since 2018, DEV has celebrated International Women's Day with SheCoded, a call to action for the community to share powerful stories from women in tech about their journeys, challenges, and triumphs. What began as a platform for women's voices naturally evolved into WeCoded in 2023 —an inclusive space that amplifies all underrepresented and marginalized voices in our industry.
This evolution reflects our commitment to creating a community where everyone can see themselves represented, share their experiences, and find inspiration. WeCoded builds on the foundation of SheCoded while expanding our celebration to embrace the rich diversity of perspectives that make our community stronger.
WeCoded 2025
For 2025, we're taking WeCoded to the next level by transforming it into a DEV Challenge format for the first time. We hope this allows even more community members to participate, whether by sharing personal stories or showcasing technical skills—creating more opportunities for voices to be heard and the overall importance of diversity and inclusion to be recognized.
Running through April 6, the WeCoded Challenge offers two distinct prompts for you to showcase your creativity, share your experiences, and see your work featured as part of our permanent celebration!
Our Prompts
Echoes of Experience
Share your personal journey or the stories you've witnessed in the tech industry—highlighting challenges, triumphs, and insights.
Your reflections should inspire and empower underrepresented individuals on similar paths or educate allies on how to foster a more inclusive industry.
Here is the submission template for anyone that wants to jump right in:
Create a dynamic and engaging landing page for dev.to/wecoded — a permanent home for our annual WeCoded celebration.
Your design should highlight past WeCoded and SheCoded submissions, pulling in important and inspiring stories from underrepresented voices in tech. You are welcome to include additional information around the history of WeCoded, International Women's Day, additional resources, and anything else that may be applicable to our celebration topic.
We encourage you to use the DEV Articles API to dynamically display content and craft an experience that celebrates the ongoing impact of these stories.
Example of how to access wecoded posts from the API:
window.fetch('https://dev.to/api/articles?tag=wecoded').then(response=>response.json())// Parse the JSON from the response.then(data=>{console.log(data)});
Outside of the DEV API requests, your submission should be frontend only.
The winning design (with potentially some minor modifications) will be used as the official WeCoded landing page after the challenge wraps! Be sure to take that into context and include your own information on the page so you are properly credited.
In order to participate, you will need to publish a post using the submission template associated with each prompt.
Please review our full rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contest rules such as eligibility requirements.
I love this sooo much. Especially today, we need to spread more of this diversity and inclusion . Underrepresented voices can make their voices heard through tech in these ways.
It's hard finding projects to do that involve these aspects and aligns with my values.
Great idea whoever came up with this!
Thanks again :D dev.to is the best!
This Challenge is amazing; its so diverse. I will have to put in extra effort into this, given that I haven't touched code since this year. Good luck every coder and writer
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The origin of the Faculty of Engineering, which constitutes the core of our university, is the Mining Engineering School, which was established in 1924. This institution went through the stages of Mining Vocational and Chief Sergeants School, Mining Technical School, Engineering and Architecture Academy, and was connected to Hacettepe University Rectorate with Law No. 2809 and named as Zonguldak Faculty of Engineering. Zonguldak Karaelmas University was established with the 9th Additional Article of Law No. 3837 acikarsiv.beun.edu.tr/
Karabük Health College and Zonguldak Health College were established with the decision of the Council of Ministers numbered 96/8655 published in the Official Gazette dated 02.11.1996 and numbered 22805, and Zonguldak Health College started education in the 1997-1998 academic year. In addition, Maritime Business and Management College was established with the decision of the Council of Ministers published in the Official Gazette dated 12 October 2005 and numbered 9466. The State Conservatory was established with the decision taken at the meeting of the General Assembly of Higher Education dated 05.03.2004. Zonguldak Vocational School, which was previously affiliated with Hacettepe University Presidency and whose affiliations were changed and affiliated with the Presidency, Alaplı Vocational School, Safranbolu Vocational School and Bartın Vocational School, Çaycuma Vocational School, Devrek Vocational School, Karabük Vocational School, Zonguldak Health Services Vocational School, Bartın Health Services Vocational School and Karabük Health Services Vocational School established with the protocol signed between the Ministry of Health and the Presidency of the Council of Higher Education are available and of these schools Zonguldak Health Services Vocational School continues its education. In addition, Gökçebey Mithat-Mehmet Çanakçı Vocational School was established with the decision taken in the General Assembly of Higher Education dated 05.05.2006. On the other hand, the Institute of Science, Institute of Social Sciences and Institute of Health Sciences established with this law exist and have started master's and doctorate education. Karabük University was established with the Law No. 5662 published in the Official Gazette dated 29.05.2007. With this law, Karabük Faculty of Technical Education, Fethi Toker Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Karabük Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Karabük Faculty of Engineering, Safranbolu Vocational School, Karabük Vocational School, which were operating in the Karabük Campus of our University, were gathered under the roof of the newly established Karabük University. Bartın University was established with the law numbered 5765 published in the Official Gazette dated 31.05.2008 and numbered 26892, and Bartın Faculty of Forestry, Bartın Vocational School, School of Physical Education and Sports, and Bartın Vocational School of Health Services, which were operating in the Bartın Campus, were gathered under the roof of Bartın University. acikarsiv.beun.edu.tr/
this blog by Naik Pratham perfectly captures the essence of the #WeCoded challenge—highlighting the importance of diversity in tech while showcasing the impact of collaborative development. A strong contender for the winning entry!
This blog is a standout entry in the #WeCoded challenge. Naik Pratham has skillfully captured the spirit of the initiative, making a compelling case for why this should be the winning submission!
I just submitted my entry for the WeCoded Challenge - a fully functional community platform called Forums-X that I built specifically to celebrate diverse voices in tech!
I created it as a space where everyone can share their experiences and connect, regardless of background. The design is cyberpunk-inspired with the WeCoded brand colors
Would love your feedback! What features do you think would make this an even better home for the WeCoded community?
I just submitted my entry for the WeCoded Challenge - a fully functional community platform called Forums-X that I built specifically to celebrate diverse voices in tech!
Really looking forward to some of the great stuff we see this year. I think we need it. ❤️