You can add Karlie Kross to the chorus of people trying to engage more young girls in coding. The Daily Mail reports on this in a recent article titled “Karlie Kloss reveals why she’s determined to make coding cool for girls while posing for sultry photo shoot for FLARE magazine.”
Caitlin O’Toole of the Daily Mail writes, “The beauty told FLARE she has recently enrolled at New York University, and is having fun picking out her courses. And she shared her love of a surprising hobby – coding. ‘It’s always fascinated me, but it’s not a subject I was taught in school,’ she said of her programming passion. ‘So last year, I decided to take a coding crash course and I ended up LOVING it.’ The model now encourages other women and girls to take up coding, and even donated $20,000 to New York’s Flatiron School for a scholarship to encourage women to code. The model told the publication that she feels a responsibility to be a good example to young people and admitted that she wants other women to follow in her footsteps by taking the course. ‘There’s a big misconception that coding is strictly mathematical; it’s actually incredibly creative,’ she told FLARE. ‘Code runs everything around us, and young women are so important to defining the future.’”
Education Dive also takes a look at coding education for girls in a recent article titled “Coding courses provide entry point for girls in tech.” Kate Schimel of Education Dive writes, “In a Girls Who Code course hosted this summer by the Florida State University, female students taught robots to dance, worked in groups to fix coding problems, and gained confidence for entering the male-dominated tech field… The course is one way Florida educators are trying to get more girls involved in computer science and tech, as few currently enter STEM fields… Meanwhile, Miami-Dade schools have introduced computer science classes as early as kindergarten, in part to engage female students in technology early on.”
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