On 2 November, 2019 Grace Hopper Girls Programming Camp was held at Z. H. Sikder University of Science & Technology in Shariatpur. A total of 36 undergraduate female students of Computer Science and Engineering Department of the University are participating in this camp organized by the Bangladesh Open Source Network (BDOSN).  Due to the lack of practical application of the knowledge acquired by the students in our current textual education system, female students cannot be able to enter the work market. As a result, many female students drop out before entering the workplace. Therefore, if it is possible to empower these women students before entering the workplace, then women workers can contribute immensely to advance Bangladesh in information technology.

From this idea, BDOSN has started a 3-year project where our female students from graduation level are brought to the umbrella of the education of information a communication technology and make them more skilled in IT sector.

In this connection, a two-day camp at the University of Science and Technology in Shariatpur provides a basic knowledge to solve any practical problems through coding to the students. The first day of the camp, students learned about the programming language what they need to understand any problem in programming and the concept of online platform and online judge in which a programming contest is occurred. And all day long they receive the training on how to solve a problem in a contest. The next day of the camp on 3^rd November, they participated in an online programming contest where they had to solve some problems provided by the assigned mentor. On the basis of the performance of the students, first three position holder students were awarded by certificates and crests.

University's computer science and engineering department chairman and assistant professor Mahfuzur Rahman and lecturer Alamgir Hossain were present there. The camp is headed by BDOSN's mentors Humayun Kabir and Masud Parvez.

After the day, a hands on job preparation workshop was held at that university to spread the information of our ICT based workplace among the female students so that they would not be puzzled after their graduation. Around 20 female students participated in this workshop.