Meet the Team
Briana Berger - Founder and President
Briana Berger is a rising high school junior that is an avid computer scientist. She has been doing Tae Kwon Do for six years and is a first degree black belt (Kukkiwon's 1st DAN, WTF-style). Briana also is in the speech and debate team and robotics team. As well as, she is a member of the school's GOLD (Leadership Development) club, Spanish club, Mu Alpha Theta, Junior Engineering and Technical Society and the Chemistry Olympiad team. Plus, Briana is a part of the Leadership Team at her church's youth ministry. She also knows how to code with Java, Python, HTML5, CSS3, Scratch, and MIT AppInventor. Then, in her free time, she loves to do photography, web design, coding, reading, taekwondo, writing, and studying chemistry and calculus. So, she is well versed in Photoshop, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Premiere. Yet, she has always been intrigued by technology, even on her childhood toy computer. In middle school and high school, she edited and made videos based around technology on YouTube. She even got a partnership and over 25,000 views, which allowed her to make money for the videos. So, this technology based hobby fostered her computer science path. During her freshman year, she would code blogs and plugins for various technology based organizations. Briana was also a volunteer tutor dedicating herself to educating at risk children with one-to-one learning solutions. Then, in the summer after freshman year, she took a Java course at Rollins College under ID Tech. This course was a catalyst for her computer science love. She began to code websites and blogs for other people to benefit. Some websites included tutorials and a homework help website for students in her school. In her sophomore year, Briana founded SeniorTechNet, a program to help close the gap between elders and technology. It has helped them connect to family through easier communication and ability to relate. She also volunteers her time to give 24-hour care to provide care and companionship to a person with disabilities. She participates in both the Summer Week Camp and the Winter Mini-Camp. As well as, in her sophomore year, she joined a Girls Who Code chapter at a local state university, where she learned Python and made life-long friends through their love for coding. Briana also won the title of a Technovation Worldwide Coding Competition 2016 Quarterfinalist, where she competed globally in making an application for Android, iPhone, or Windows.
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Courtney Berger - Vice President
Courtney Berger is a rising freshman that actively volunteers and does ballet. She dances on a very rigorous schedule, yet manages to maintain straight A's in school. She loves to help her community in any form she can.