TUNE House opens applications for the program’s third year

www.dailyuw.com - RSS Results in news,news/* of type article Last month, Seattle-based marketing startup TUNE announced in a press release that the application cycle for their unique scholarship program, TUNE House, will be open through April 1 for undergraduate women at the UW pursuing degrees in computer science, information technology, or engineering.TUNE House offers free rent, grocery delivery, laptops, and professional mentorship to its eight residents in an effort to reduce the gender disparity present in computer science and related fields. “We’ve always had trouble hiring qualified engineers that are women,” TUNE co-founder and Chief Product Officer Lucas Brown said. “It’s through firsthand experience that we’ve been able to see the underrepresentation of women.” 
Of the 101 software engineers employed at TUNE, 18 of them are women.Several years ago, Lucas Brown and his brother and co-founder, Lee Brown, started talking about the possibility of the program that would come to be called TUNE House after reflecting on their own college experience, and trying to work with their younger sister to help her get involved in technology. They felt that their live-in entrepreneurship community was what really encouraged them to pursue their careers, so they decided to try and apply that same concept to help battle the problem they were seeing in their work environment. “What it comes down to is being inspired and having a community to support you, in whatever endeavor you want,” Lucas Brown said. “Hopefully that’s where TUNE House is there to help.”Beyond living with seven other women pursuing technology related degrees, each resident also selected a TUNE engineer at the beginning of the school year to mentor them.Larissa Ho, who is in her second year as a resident at TUNE House, feels that the sense of community fostered by the program is one of its best aspects.“I think that having each other, and being able to help each other ...


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