The competition, run by The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) and the University of Oxford, asks girls what they would like to communicate to Ada Lovelace about twenty-first century technology. Lovelace published an historic paper about Charles Babbage's designs for a nineteenth century computer which contained what many think of as the first ever computer program.
Female students under the age of 18 are encouraged to use any medium to enter, from a handwritten letter to a YouTube video.
The competition aims to inspire more female students to take up computing as many studies have shown that they are currently hugely under-represented in the industry. The technological challenges of the future need talented people with a diversity of skills to address them.
Chris Monk, Learning Co-ordinator at TNMOC, said: "Of the 17,000 students who achieved a GCSE in computing in 2014, only 15% were girls. We see this reflected in the educational group visits to TNMOC and we would very much like to play our part in redressing the balance."
Find out more about the competition here. The closing date is 13 October 2015.
