Showing Girls How to Break the Tech Gender Stereotypes
summary
A national nonprofit called Project CS Girls runs a national competition launched last summer that asks middle school teams to build code or prototypes solving social problems, plus hands-on workshops in mobile apps, game programming, robotics, Java and HTML. The program targets middle school as the pivot point, measures success by empowerment and social impact rather than test scores, invites winners to a DC company tour, and focuses on role models and corporate diversity advocacy.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:26Google Images
- 0:48Goldie Blox
- 1:24How to fix this
- 1:40Female role models
- 1:55Turning away from computer science
- 2:10Diversity and inclusion
- 2:25Supporting women led and driven organizations
- 2:41Start early
- 2:57Take risks
- 3:10Project CS Girls
- 3:25Why middle school
- 3:42Why a national competition
- 3:56Workshops
- 4:12Competition
- 4:26Collaboration
- 4:43What can you do
- 5:00Conclusion
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