2016年6月16日- 10月21日， Toptal 推出了 STEM女性奖学金, a program designed to empower and support the next generation of female computer scientists, 软件工程师, and developers through a combination of financial support and mentorship.
Today, we are thrilled to announce the seventh winner of the scholarship, 陈晓伟, a Taiwanese game developer who aspires to start her own incubator for game developers in the Philippines, 她成长的地方, 在台湾. She plans to put the scholarship winnings towards a Master’s Degree in Video Game Enterprise and Production at Birmingham City University in the UK, which in turn will help Hsiao develop the business knowledge she needs to start her gaming incubator.
最终, Hsiao想要了解游戏开发过程的每个环节, “从编程, 完成, 对分布, 和市场营销,” so she can empower other game developers in her home country to independently develop their own games and bring them to market.
“小肖有一个伟大的梦想, 她非常有动力去实现它,Anna Chiara-Bellini说, Toptal的工程总监, 谁领导奖学金评审委员会. “游戏是一个非常狭窄的利基市场，所以她面临着艰巨的任务. Plus, her dream of starting an incubator in the Philippines is a really difficult challenge. 我们担心这个项目太大，一个人承担不了.”
“然而, 当萧解释她知道多少的时候, 她有多热爱游戏行业, 她所有的想法都能帮助她在如此艰难的市场中茁壮成长, 我们知道是否有人愿意接受挑战, 她是. We’re committed to helping her pursue her Master’s Degree and matching her with the right mentor to help make her gaming incubator dream a reality.”
作为奖学金获得者, 萧将获得5美元,为她的教育和职业发展目标, as well as a year of weekly one-on-one dedicated mentorship from a senior software engineer from the Toptal network.
萧女士的STEM女性奖学金申请
Hsiao first learned about the scholarship while looking for opportunities to help her pay for her Video Game Enterprise and Production Master’s Program. She was immediately drawn to STEM女性奖学金 because the application required that she contribute to GitHub. 作为开放源代码的主要贡献者，Hsiao保持着一个 博客 where she posts tutorials on how to develop games and use plugins for Android and iOS.
合作和教学是萧的学习过程中不可或缺的一部分. 她解释说, “每当我自己学到东西的时候, 我在自己的博客上发布了相关内容，并回答了其他开发者的问题.” Contributing on open source as part of the application was a clear way for her to continue her existing habit of honing her skills while giving back to the developer community.
The one-on-one mentorship will provide her critical guidance in developing her skills as an engineer and an entrepreneur. “我还有很多技能需要提高，”萧说. “Having a mentor who I can go to with all of my questions is going to be really awesome and critical to my success.”
关于萧
Hsiao developed a love for programming in high school and earned her degree in Computer Science in college. “I was always a member of my school’s computer clubs and multimedia clubs,” Hsiao reflected. 毕业后, she moved from the Philippines to Taiwan and looked to build the same support systems she had found in those clubs. 她了解到 Global Game Jam, a hackathon in which a multitude of game developers in Taiwan get together and code for 48 hours straight to build new games.
By getting to know the small but vibrant “indie game developer community” in Taiwan, Hsiao developed her dream of making independent game development a more feasible career path for aspiring developers – and especially aspiring female developers – back in the Philippines.
“因为我们仍然是一个所谓的第三世界国家, it’s really hard for developers to go out on their own and pursue great ideas for new games,萧说. “追求这些想法几乎没有经济激励, 不管他们有多好, and I know many very talented developers who would create amazing games if only they had the financial capabilities. 这就是为什么我想创建一个孵化器——为他们提供支持.”
Hsiao’s own game development process is a family affair – both of her sisters and her roommate are artists, 所以每当她创造一个新的游戏理念时, she has three artists at her disposal to help her visualize and build out the product.
目前，她正在为孩子们设计一款名为 Nabi竞争，这款游戏允许用户通过步数赚取金币. They can turn those coins into play games and buy food for their virtual pets. “The idea is to get kids more active, inspire some healthy competition, and make exercise really fun.在她的每一次应用迭代中, 她从她的兄弟姐妹那里得到灵感, 他们都精通2D和3D设计.
最终, Hsiao hopes to create an equally collaborative work environment for game developers and artists in order to turn game development from a super niche, tiny industry in the Philippines to a booming community of empowered independent developers.
Please join us in congratulating game developer 陈晓伟 on becoming the seventh winner of the STEM女性奖学金 program!
关于total STEM女性奖学金
Toptal STEM Scholarships for women are a series of 12 scholarships for women that are awarded monthly over a year, 萧是第七个奖学金获得者. Women from across the world of any education level are eligible to apply to win $5,000 and a year of weekly one-on-one technical training and mentorship from a Toptal senior technologist to help them pursue their goals as future professional 软件工程师.
之前的奖学金获得者是 Rojina Bajracharya表示 从尼泊尔, 安娜Sustic 从斯洛文尼亚, 加芙曼奇尼 来自阿根廷, Tondi巴特勒 来自美国, Rachell卡尔霍恩，也来自美国 Yasett Acurana 从玻利维亚.
To apply to Toptal Scholarships for Female 开发人员 and for more information about the program, 访问 http://wlmqn.946543.com/scholarships.
关于Toptal
成立于2010年, Toptal is one the fastest-growing and most innovative companies to emerge from Silicon Valley. 得到了安德森·霍洛维茨基金的支持, 硅谷著名的风险投资公司, 亚当·德安杰洛, Quora创始人, 瑞安洛克菲勒, 以及其他投资者, Toptal today connects thousands of elite freelance 软件工程师 and designers from around the world to over 2,000蓝筹股，如J.P. 摩根和辉瑞, Airbnb和Zendesk等科技公司, and numerous startups to provide world-class solutions that meet the most complex and challenging requirements. Toptal’s rapid growth is testimony to exploding client demand and the unmatched quality and reliability of the company’s services.
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