Regina Honu

thumb|Regina_Honu Regina Honu ( born January1,1986 ), is a Ghanaian social entrepreneur, software developer and founder of Soronko Solutions, a software development company in Ghana. She founded Soronko Academy, the first coding and human-centered design school for children and young adults in West Africa. Honu has received multiple awards, including being named by CNN as one of the 12 inspirational women who rock STEM. Quotes It’s important that we take care of the planet, it’s important that we take care for the next generation — even as an organization, as we work with a lot of children. It’s important that we upskill the African population — especially women and girls, who are mostly the vulnerable group — to have 21st-century skills, which are digital and technology knowledge, to be able to be competitive, get better jobs, and enrich their lives. Technology drives everything that we do, and it is important that women and girls are not left behind. For us as a social enterprise, we are big in bridging that gender gap in the digital and technology economy, which is changing everything around us. Some people take days to pick their company name, I tell entrepreneurs that they’re majoring in the minor. I say pick what you like and keep it moving, you can build a brand on it He said it’s impossible, girls don’t build rockets and I’ll end up in the kitchen. I told myself I wasn’t going to try anything again, I’m a failure in life Meet Regina Honu, a Ghanaian software developer teaching thousands of girls to code When I was young, I was very interested in science and technology, and my dad brought home the first computer. I played pac man and I was hooked! https://www.blacksis.org/post/resolving-africa-s-gender-bias-in-stem-yaaw-s-approach When you have a dream and a desire, it is like an alarm clock goes off inside of you. Turning the snooze button does not work, as the alarm will go off again. You just have to wake up. https://leanin.org/stories/regina-agyare It took me four years and a lot of sleepless nights to realize that when you have a dream and a desire, it is like an alarm clock going off inside you. https://leanin.org/stories/regina-agyare External links Category: Living people Category:Women born in the 1980s