Software Engineer, Palo Alto Networks

Pooja Gera • Peerlist

The WireUs Challenge, an initiative by Pooja Gera and Gaurav Khanna, is a promising technological endeavour. It aims to provide students and learners a chance to hone their abilities without having to go down the rabbit hole of tutorial hell. 

The WireUs Challenge is not just any challenge; this is a challenge that lives up to its name. It is a 100 day design and development challenge made by a team of 57 talented developers and designers wherein we are offering 100 challenges each in 12 different in-demand skill sets. (Competitive Programming, UI Designing, CSS Drawing, CSS Tricks, JavaScript, JavaScript DSA, React, Python, SQL, Data Analysis and Visualisation, Machine Learning, Web Scraping) 

As the saying goes, "the best things in life come free"; The WireUs Challenge is fully sponsored by BeerTech India and does not charge any registration fee from the students. If you're looking to master your skill, welcome to The WireUs Challenge!

Some Valuable Statistics: 
No. of Team Members: 57
No. of Partners: 10
No. of Challenges: 1200 
No. of Registrations: 445 
No. of Colleges where the students registered from: 62
No. of Cities where the students registered from: 33
No. of Countries where the students registered from: 4 

The WireUs Challenge

Project Virago is a tool to fight against the hate and bullying that is spread on social media. This idea originated as a discussion over an incident of social media trolling experienced by one of our team members. Upon pondering over the issue, the team realised that there are numerous cases of hate speech, bullying and trolling that are overlooked mainly because there is no such tool available for fast detection and quick response of the issue that persists.

Initially, Virago was supposed to be a tool for detecting hate speech against women but due to technical purposes, we switched over to making it a more generalised model. The team will continue to work for the original idea and will begin working on the release Version2.0 of this tool once Version1.0 gets fully improvised. 