Rise, Shatter, Lead.
This is a submission for the 2026 WeCoded Challenge : Frontend Art What did I build ?? What inspired me ?? The glass ceiling is one of the most enduring metaphors in gender equity — and I wanted to make it visible . "Rise. Shatter. Lead." is an animated tribute to the women who built the technologies we take for granted every day: Grace Hopper, who invented the compiler; Radia Perlman, whose spanning-tree protocol underpins the modern internet; Kimberly Bryant, founder of Black Girls Code; and Reshma Saujani, who launched Girls Who Code. The central figure — You — sits among them deliberately. Because the next pioneer is still writing their story. The cracked glass ceiling at the center of the piece isn't decorative. It's a reminder that 27% of the tech workforce being women, and only 18% of tech leadership, isn't a ceiling we've broken yet — it's one we're still cracking. How I built it ?? The latest version of this piece is built entirely in pure HTML and CSS — no JavaScript whatsoev
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