Girls Who Code Club

Looking to sign up now for the 2022-2023 session?

At this time, we’re more than half-way through  this year’s series of meetings for club members.  If you are interested in joining us, please feel free to drop in at the next meeting and check in with our facilitators as to whether the interested patron would like to join the club in progress.  If you all agree that it works best for you to join, you can then sign up with the facilitators at the Girls Who Code HQ Site with our club code (which our facilitators can give you.)

Sign up for text updates and reminders!

Sign up for text updates here. This is used mainly for weather-related closings or day-of updates about club meetings. You can also text @brkgwc2022 to the number 81010, and you will get a welcome message from our texting service, Remind.

When does the Girls Who Code club meet?

We meet Mondays at 6:30 PM starting Monday, October 17. Our club meets weekly, excluding holidays and vacation weeks. We usually meet in the large table in the Tween Room.

We do not currently meet during the summer months.

If you’d like to join and the club has already started meeting for the year, don’t worry! You can start attending any time.  Sign up at the link above and then join us at the next meeting to get started!

What is Girls Who Code?

Girls Who Code is a national nonprofit organization leading the movement to inspire, educate and equip girls with the computing skills to pursue 21st-century opportunities. Through our Summer Immersion Program and Girls Who Code Clubs, we aim to close the gender gap in technology.

What can you learn with Girls Who Code?

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Graphics
  • Game Design
  • Cryptography
  • Mobile Development
  • So. Much. More.

Who is Girls Who Code for?

We are hosting this year’s club for girls ages 10 up through 18 (grades 5 to 12). In the past, we’ve offered the clubs to girls in grades 6 through 12 are welcome in the club.

Girls Who Code clubs programs are designed for female participants, regardless of gender assignment at birth or legal recognition, we encourage our Clubs to welcome any member who wishes to join the Girls Who Code mission irrespective of gender identity.  Girls Who Code takes a gender-specific approach to our programming. This means that our programming is one that keeps the focus on girls, and considers the biases that might impact their experience. We deliver this by providing girls with safe, girls-focused spaces, and centering curricula on women in tech so that girls can imagine themselves in computing roles. Any member–regardless of gender identity–who wishes to support our mission is encouraged to join the Sisterhood!  Please read their complete FAQ answer here.

When will the Girls Who Code club start?

The 2022-2023 session starts Monday, October 17 at 6:30 PM in the Tween Room.

You can register through the link at the top of the page.  Meeting information to join our club meetings is also listed on our events calendar.

 

Who are our Facilitators?

Jenny

Jenny Michaels is the Senior Instructional Strategy Specialist at Emmanuel College. Prior to coming to Boston she taught Information Technology at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, NC. In her free time Jenny enjoys reading and exploring Boston.

Sasha

Sasha is a Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program 2015 alumna and is looking forward to returning to GWC as a facilitator. She is a recent graduate of Cornell University, where she studied Computer Science and Linguistics. Sasha works as a software engineer at a start-up in Somerville.

Examples

Please take a look at the projects club members create here.

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