The announcement: http://bit.ly/madewithcodeblog
The official site: http://bit.ly/madewithcode Local events, resources: http://bit.ly/madewithcodeevents Google+ Community: http://bit.ly/madewithcodecommunity Press release: http://bit.ly/madewithcodepressrelease Video intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo11JJgj1cU Clift Note: This looks like a great initiative. We had a number of awesome young women from the Science Museum of Minnesota's Teen Tech program come to http://citycampmn.org last year. We need more connections like this. In general I hope efforts, like this will build bridges with local tech for good/civic innovation efforts like those bubbling up via the Code for America Brigade network - http://bit.ly/cfabridagelist - and others. Now to play the video for my six year old daughter. Clip from the blog post: ... In fact, fewer than one percent of high school girls express interest in majoring in computer science. ... Today, we’re attempting to solve this issue on a much larger scale. Along with Chelsea Clinton, Girls Inc., Girl Scouts of the USA, Mindy Kaling, MIT Media Lab, National Center for Women & Information Technology, SevenTeen, TechCrunch and more, Google is launching Made with Code, an initiative to inspire girls to code. The program includes: Cool introductory Blockly-based coding projects, like designing a bracelet 3D-printed by Shapeways, learning to create animated GIFs and building beats for a music track. Collaborations with organizations like Girl Scouts of the USA and Girls, Inc. to introduce Made with Code to girls in their networks, encouraging them to complete their first coding experience. A commitment of $50 million to support programs that can help get more females into computer science, like rewarding teachers who support girls who take CS courses on Codecademy or Khan Academy. We’ve also posted videos about women who are using code in their dream jobs, like Miral, Danielle, Erica and other inspirational girl coders — like Brittany Wenger, who is using code to fight cancer. And, we’ve developed a few steps parents can take at home to get their daughters excited about computer science. Read more about the initiative here. More: http://bit.ly/madewithcodeblog Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 ᐧ ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/334JQtWT2qpo92MJ4fRSFp For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
