​The Tech Bros is back to bring you the bad ideas build day in collaboration with Manchester WISE 🚀 This event is aimed at Women in STEM based in and around Manchester

​Our events are open to builders of all levels, including complete beginners. Thank you to Codecademy for providing one month of free Codecademy Pro to our Build Day participants (details for this will be sent out after registration)!

​Sponsors: Manchester WISE, Colony Fabrica, Codecademy

​​Programme

​​09:30 - 🥐 Registration + breakfast
10:00 - 🗣️ Welcome talk
10:30 - 📝 Bad Ideas: ideation + project assignment
11:00 - ⚒️ Build!
13:00 - 🍕 Lunch + continued build
17:00 - 🏆 Presentations
17:30 - 🍾 Celebrations

​​In the Build Day, you'll collaborate with a team—potentially including people you've never worked with before—to develop a deliberately 'bad' idea. Teams will be formed based on coding skill levels, and you'll utilise tools like HTML, CSS, & React to bring your concept to life. The challenge is to rapidly transform an idea from zero to a presentable state, all without the pressure of perfectionism.

​​​The Tech Bros is a social enterprise run by Milette and Sedinam with the aim of funding female-founded tech companies. We target exclusively women in highly technical fields, with a focus on postgrads and PhDs, and help them go from 0 to 1 through our hands-on events. We're launching our accelerator program in the summer of 2025, with a particular focus on AI / ML, robotics, aerospace, and quantum startups. To learn more check out our LinkedIn, Instagram, X or Website.

​The Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) society is a safe space for all women and non-binary people in STEM. We help our members connect and network through our social events, career events and wider outreach. Follow us on our platforms and don't be afraid to reach out :) Join us now to take part in our many events! https://linktr.ee/manchesterwise

​COLONY is an expanding network of flexible coworking spaces in Manchester — full of creatives, entrepreneurs, freelancers, start-ups and established companies. Spaces where everyone exists together, where ideas pollinate and businesses flourish. Colony Fabrica, newly open, is a forward looking space for pioneering work, for companies that mean business in Manchester. Once the industrial heartbeat of Manchester, Colony Fabrica, a 24,000sqft hub of activity, is set to represent a new approach to workspace in the ever expanding urban landscape of New Islington.

​Codecademy is an American online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 13 different programming languages including Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, C++, C#, Lua, and Swift, as well as markup languages HTML and CSS. The site also offers a paid "Pro" option that gives users access to personalized learning plans, quizzes, and realistic projects.