Tag Archives: Girls

Education

A New Bracelet Designed to Get More Girls Coding

Technology is improving every day. It is permeating all aspects of our life. New wearable technology is being used to encourage more girls to code. Consider a recent article for Kill Screen titled “THE WEARABLE TECH THAT’S GETTING GIRLS INTO CODING.”

Cassidee Moser of Kill Screen writes, “Taking friendship bracelets into the digital age, Jewelbots teaches young girls to tinker and code their way into the exploding world of wearable technology. Whether it’s the Queen of Coding Grace Hopper or the new wave of women innovation engineers, fashion brand CEOs and musicians, young girls today have a growing number of role models who use science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in their recipes for success. Having more role models is critical, but according to the founders of Jewelbots—the so-called friendship bracelets for the iPhone era—the next generation of women leaders and inventors will chase STEM endeavors at an early age, like a game of tag. ‘Kids want to have fun; it’s their job,’ said Brooke Moreland, co-founder of Jewelbots. These programmable wearables, which are powered by Arduino Gemma microcontrollers, teach girls how to hack hardware and code software so they can customize their own watches. ‘The sooner they realize how much fun they can have, the sooner they will be hooked,’ Moreland said. Hooking young girls with hands-on technology could lead them to careers that are underserved by women today. It might even inspire many to start their own STEM-related businesses, like Moreland and Jewelbots co-founder Sara Chipps. Through Jewelbots, Moreland and Chipps hope to inspire girls to pursue any careers, whether that means programming new video games or studying computer science. Hacking digital bracelets helps girls unlock their own curiosity and potential for becoming leaders in technology and business… Chipps is also a developer and co-founder of the non-profit Girl Develop It. She first noticed the importance of empowering young women while teaching them to write software at Flatiron School. Her female students were particularly excited, never realizing what they could do with software until someone took the time to show them.”

When it comes to hands-on coding education, your best bet is CodeRev Kids. At CodeRev Kids, our lessons focus on computational thinking, which encompasses a wide variety of programming languages and concepts.

Our lessons build upon one another and we adjust starting points to each student’s level of expertise. Thus, the entire curriculum is customized. We are known for saying we are the most educational tech camp out there, but we also keep the focus on having fun. As a result, students stay engaged while learning to blend creativity with technology.

Sign up for one of our camps today!

Coding Education, Education

Several Ways You Can Help Empower Girls to Learn Coding

it comes to coding education, a major issue is equity. Coding provides a lot of opportunities not just for underrepresented groups, but their families, friends, and communities as well. Consider a recent article for Mashable titled “8 ways you can empower girls to learn coding.”

Matt Petronizio of Mashable writes, “Before anything, you need to understand the systemic obstacles preventing girls from getting into coding. Both a culture that persistently ignores and discourages girls’ abilities in computer science, and the lack of access to tools and education, play influential roles. Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, says it’s deeply ingrained in our culture to let it be OK for girls to say they don’t like math and science. ‘We almost sensationalize it in culture for girls to promote that,’ she tells Mashable. ‘You can walk into a Forever 21 and buy a T-shirt that says ‘I’m allergic to algebra’ … You’re always showcasing these really smart girls hiding their intelligencewhen it comes to math and science.’ If girls can’t see themselves in these professions, Saujani adds, they’re not going to choose to pursue them. And that also extends to inside classrooms, where coding is rarely offered to students in general, much less focusing on girls — an obstacle Code.org founder and CEO Hadi Partovi says is equally as significant as culture. ‘If you enter a classroom and you see 18 boys and two girls, you automatically think, ‘I’m in the wrong place and I’m not welcome,’’ Partovi says. ‘And that makes it harder.’ … One of the most important ways to advocate for girls is to get schools to actually offer courses on the subject. On the public advocacy side, you can contact your local politicians and legislators to lobby on behalf of making coding a priority in public school education. As a parent or guardian, you can put pressure on school administrations to include more computer science courses in curricula for various age levels. And if you’re a teacher, you can effect change within the school system itself.”

When it comes to customized coding education, you can’t go wrong with CodeRev Kids. At CodeRev Kids, our lessons focus on computational thinking, which encompasses a wide variety of programming languages and concepts.

Our lessons build upon one another and we adjust starting points to each student’s level of expertise. Thus, the entire curriculum is customized. We are known for saying we are the most educational tech camp out there, but we also keep the focus on having fun. As a result, students stay engaged while learning to blend creativity with technology.

Sign up for one of our winter camps today!

Coding Education

Karlie Kross Discusses Making Coding Cool for Girls


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.”

For young girls in California, there’s no better option for coding education than CodeRev Kids. With us, children get a customized coding education that allows them to create everything from apps to games to robots.

Our program emphasizes computational thinking, which encompasses a wide range of programming concepts and languages. Our lessons build upon one another and we adjust starting points to each student’s level of expertise. Thus, the entire curriculum is customized. In addition to being the most educational tech camp out there, we also keep the focus on having fun. As a result, our students stay engaged while learning to blend creativity with technology.

If you want to give your daughter the best coding education opportunity, look no further than CodeRev Kids!