Yesterday, March 11th, 2023, we held our annual GirlsWhoCode Summit. This year, participants built and coded their own robots in teams that fostered creativity, teamwork, and passion. Head over to our 2023 Summit page to learn more!
The date was chosen with a specific purpose– a few days ago, March 8th, it was International Women’s Day. This is a day when the global community stands up for women’s rights, and this year’s theme is “embrace equality.” By empowering young girls with the knowledge and love of STEM, we hope to promote equality in the tech field and most importantly, foster a lifelong passion for learning and collaboration.
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Last week, on 1/27, some of our officers went to Harvest Park's CTE Day to advertise our upcoming 2023 GWC Summit and present about computer science at Amador. Each coding club prepared an activity for students to try, from flying drones to VR and Minecraft. We brought Boe-bots to code, and we had a great time! Visit the GWC Summit 2023 page to learn more about this year's Summit.
In addition, a big thanks to PPIE for sponsoring us this year! You have been instrumental to purchasing Boe-bots for the Summit and continuing our club's mission of inspiring girls to code.
At the end of last semester, we finished our web development curriculum, where members of the regular group were able to create their own projects. Here are the finished products!
We also held a Christmas website competition! Here are the submissions. The winners were Celine Lu & Henry Tsay tied with Abhishri Narayan, Amy Sun, Anika Kurkut, & Adithi Viswanathan. Thank you everyone for participating!
This year, GirlsWhoCode visited PMS Pantherfest, and it was a big success! To help publicize and gather new members for our soon-to-open GWC middle school branch at Pleasanton Middle School, we held a booth at the event. We got a ton of middle schoolers excited to learn web development in the upcoming weeks. We can't wait to finally get the club rolling. See you soon for the opening day! Recently, Amador Girls Who Code won the California School Board Association (CSBA) Golden Bell Award for our annual Girls Who Code Summit in recognition for our work towards equity and access in the tech field. We are extremely honored to be acknowledged, and will continue to uphold these values within our club and the upcoming 2022 Summit!
Girls Who Code in the News: Last Saturday, we hosted our second annual Girls Who Code Summit. A huge thank you to our leadership team and club/summit advisors who made this event possible! This year, elementary and middle school girls built websites in HTML or a combination of HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Although they were only coding for an hour, all teams managed to create beautiful, interactive, and informative websites! During our closing ceremony, we recognized teams who we believed embodied the characteristics of women who lead, from persevering to being visionaries. We've compiled some of their websites into the slideshow below to highlight their amazing creations! For the second year in a row, AVHS has earned College Board's AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in AP Computer Science Principles. Schools honored with the AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award have expanded girls’ access in AP Computer Science courses.
Out of the 20,000 institutions that offer AP courses, 1,119 achieved either 50% or higher female representation in one of the two AP computer science courses or a percentage of the female computer science examinees meeting or exceeding that of the school’s female population during the 2019-2020 school year. That’s nearly 37% more than the 818 schools recognized last year. In 2020, we were one of 831 recognized in the category of AP Computer Science Principles. We hope that our chapter of GWC will continue to help increase female representation in AVHS CS classes in the future! Our Girls Who Code chapter received recognition from the National Girls Who Code organization! We are so grateful for this opportunity and thankful to everyone who made the Girls Who Code Summit possible!!
Amador Valley High School and our Girls Who Code Club was recognized for our mission to promote increased female representation in computer science at the Pleasanton Unified School District on Tuesday, February 11th!
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