BridgeSTEAM Nicosia 2026

Two days of coding for 14-to-16-year-old girls, free, and no previous experience required. BridgeSTEAM returns to Nicosia on 14–15 November 2026 at the PwC Experience Centre, run by the Girls in STEAM Academy — a non-profit initiative of the Be an Ally Foundation. This is the programme's sixth year, and it is open to girls aged 14 to 16 from anywhere in Cyprus. Applications close on 4 November 2026, through the Academy's registration form. Participation is free. What the two days contain.

• Hands-on coding and digital-skills workshops — the Academy's wider BridgeSTEAM format covers programming, robotics and AI
• Career guidance sessions on the educational and professional routes into tech, led by a qualified trainer
• Women working in STEAM talking directly about their studies, their career decisions and what the job is actually like
• An educational workshop on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, framing technology as something aimed at a social problem

The stated emphasis is as much on communication, teamwork and confidence as on the technical content — which is the honest description of what moves a 15-year-old from I could not do that to an application form. The track record. The Academy says it has supported more than 3,200 girls since 2021, with alumnae going on to international programmes including TechGirls in the United States and to job-shadowing placements with Cypriot employers. BridgeSTEAM itself has run in Limassol, Larnaca and Nicosia; the most recent Limassol edition ran in September 2026, and a Larnaca edition is scheduled for December 2026 for the same age group — dates not yet published. Why it sits on a hackathon calendar. Because the pipeline problem is upstream of the hackathons. Cyprus runs a dense autumn of competitive builds — DevFest Cyprus on 31 October, NASA Space Apps in Limassol on 14–15 November, Competen.CY and BoC Fintech 7.0 at the end of the month — and the gender split in those rooms is set years earlier, by whether a fourteen-year-old ever got put in front of an IDE with someone expecting her to use it. This is that intervention, and it costs nothing. The daily running times above are placeholders — the programme is a two-day daytime schedule, but exact hours are confirmed to accepted participants. Apply by 4 November.

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