Check out Google's great new site that encourages girls to learn to code. It provides the projects, mentors, makers, and resources for girls to experiment with programming and the computer science field. Particularly important today for boosting our nation and state's innovation and competitive factor, computer science is a diverse field that has become essential to so many things, from art to business to government to entertainment. In fact, according to the Louisiana Workforce Development Commission and Office of Louisiana Economic Development, the most competitive entry level worker through 2022 will have a degree in computer science. However critical, computer science is a STEM field that needs more girls! In fact, less than 1% of female students major in computer science.
Let's see what we can do about this!
Let's see what we can do about this!
- Made to Code
- Hour of Code
- Black Girls Code
- NPR - A push to teach computer science, even at an early age
- Teaching Code
- Hopscotch is the free iPad app for upper elementary and above.
- Scratch is a programming game that can be downloaded or used on the Web and is supported by MIT for beginners.
- Alice is another popular platform with a unique storytelling aspect. You can use it to create a game, tell a story or make an animated video. Like Scratch, Alice is free and supported by a powerful community of educators.