12 January 2019
Moinworld, Code Week, Hacker School & Digital Learning Lab
IT Executive Club presents ITEC Cares Award 201 for young talent
Hamburg, 11 January 2019 – The IT Executive Club of Hamburg@work has presented the ITEC Cares Award 2019. The IT Young Talent Award was presented at the New Year's Reception in front of 120 guests from Hamburg's IT and digital industry. The winners of the prize, which is awarded as part of the ITEC education initiative, are Moinworld e. V., Code Week Hamburg, Hacker School Hamburg and the Digital Learning Lab. The award honors the commitment of the initiatives for young IT talents in schools, professional training and universities with € 6,000 in prize money. Supporter of the Education Award is the Media Office of the Hamburg Authority for Culture and Media.
The winner of the ITEC Cares Award 2019 was the Hamburg-based non-profit organization Moinworld e.V.in the context of the worldwide Google Women Techmaker Community. The association promotes the presence of women in IT professions through tech events, programming courses and mentoring. For the IT Executive Club, this commitment is worth €3,000 in prize money. The second winner of the IT Education Prize amounting to € 2,000.00 was the Code Week Hamburg with prize money of € 2,000.00 for its annual experience weeks of workshops and hands-on events organized with the Körber Foundation and the Hamburg Public Libraries. The Hacker School of the i3 e. V. has won the 3rd place of the IT Young Talent Award of the Metropolitan Region for its programming and technology courses for elementary school students organized throughout Germany. The Digital Learning Labwas awarded a special prize as an Internet platform for digital learning content by the German Education and Vocational Training Authority, the Joachim Herz Foundation and the TU Hamburg.
The goals of the Hamburg IT Decision-makers Association include raising awareness and qualifying young people for IT and digital competence in everyday life, the special opportunities offered by IT professions in the digital world, networking MINT initiatives in the metropolitan region with committed companies, their IT and digital departments and participating in events to promote young IT specialists.
The IT-Executive Club of Hamburg@work has appointed Sven Heinsen, a graduate computer scientist, as its own representative for the IT and digital next generation on the Alster and Elbe rivers. Within the framework of the ITEC education initiative, the long-standing IT manager is responsible for the promotion of children, young people and young adults within the association and for imparting IT and digital skills. The 49-year-old businessman is in charge of the club's annual ITEC Cares Award.
Information about the winners of the ITEC Cares Award 2019:
1. Place:Moinworld e. V., Hamburg moinworld.com/
2. Place:Code Week Hamburg hamburg.codeweek.de/
3. Place:Hacker School, Hamburg hacker-school.de/
Special prize:Digital Learning Lab, Hamburg digitallearninglab.de/
