#girls learning code

Sweatpants & Equality | Girls Learning Code Day

Today, November 12, 2016, we celebrate the third annual “Girls Learning Code” Day. The mission is to get girls of all ages interested in web coding. This is important because traditionally, young girls have been largely left out of mathematics and science fields. Not many years ago, girls were even told that they needn’t bother learning math and science, because girls don’t have to be proficient…

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Intro/Theme Music: "Noise in my Head" by Clarknova from the album "Annexia" Voice-over bed music: "The mark has been made" by Nine Inch Nails from the album "The Fragile", Disc 2 (Right).

I first met Heather a few years ago when she worked at Drake International. She was running a job search workshop that I attended. We connected on Linked-In and now a few years later I stumbled back upon her profile. I was very excited to see what she was up to and wanted to talk to her about it.

I had arranged to meet with Heather after lunch on a weekday. It ended up falling on a day where I had alot going on at work, but I was able to depart the office just in time. I quickly made my way up town on my bike, to the building where the Ladies Learning Code office is located.

I arrived and headed upstairs to the LLC office. Heather was in there, diligently working away. She saw me, smiled and came to let me in.

We exchanged hellos and how are you doings, talked a bit about the space and other goings on. She warned me that a fringe festival was going on, on the floor below us and that we might want to record in another location in the building, so we headed downstairs. She led me to a phone booth type enclosure which was barely big enough for both of us, but it was the only thing really available. There were people at desks right on the other side of the glass, along the corridor, on phones or walking between offices. Truly open-concept.

Unfortunately I had forgotten my proper headphones and wasn't able to do a reliable sound check. I was reminded of a quote one of my old college professors told me about when she mentored some military recruiters on computers and they had no mouse-pads, one of them shouted: "improvise and adapt!" and they grabbed sheets of paper to use instead. So I used the headphones I had. There was also no room for a mic stand, so I had no choice but to hold the mic with my outstretched arm, up in the air between us, as still as I could manage. An interesting endurance test, for sure. Fortunately despite all this, the recording came out sounding good.

The interview went really well, I almost didn't even need to ask any prepared questions as Heather was very articulate and insightful. She made it very easy and I can't thank her enough. Her story is both interesting and inspiring and she gave some great advice for aspiring entrepreneurs.

It was my pleasure to interview Heather and I hope the connect as many interested parties with her as possible to help make Ladies Learning Code and Hacker You a great success.

References and Links: www.ladieslearningcode.com www.girlslearningcode.com www.hackeryou.com www.hackeryou.com/blog www.twitter.com/heatherpayne www.pyladies.com

It was a Mother-Daughter Hack Day for Girls Learning Code

Yesterday saw Mozilla's Toronto office hopping with girls, moms, aunts, neices, grandmothers, and mother-figures all learning the basics of code supported by the incredible mentors at Ladies Learning Code.

Girls Learning Code is less about “code” and more about changing the world – through teamwork, creativity, and, of course, technology.

Had an awesome time on Sat and Sun at a 10 girl sleepover with girls learning code and stayed up 'till 2:00 am!!!!!!!!I recomand there next camp to tech savy girls!!!!!

For tech savy women,look for ladies learning code!!!!!!!

In March we told you about the “Girls Learning Code” camp in the Mozilla Toronto office. Here’s a report-back on what they made and what we learned from the process. There’s huge interest in bringing the camp back this summer — stay tuned for more. In the mean time, here’s some helpful resources:

Slide presentation. Full of photos, useful resources and definitions, and documentation of what the girls made.

Girls Learning Code web site.

Girls Learning Code camp schedule. The curriculum and activities for the five-day arc.

Questions and answers about challenges, costs, promoting the event, and more.

Each team made their own web site using Mozilla Hackasaurus and others tools:

Team Action Script: Second Chance

Team C Sharp: Leave Animals Alone (L.A.A.)

Team Java: Sexual Rights Association

Team Onyx: MIVIJ International