is HERE. 🎉 🎶
@GirlsWhoCode
and
@IfThenSheCan
are coming together to bring you this songwriting experience, where you’ll hone your AI skills to write your very own banger.
#CSEdWeek
Today is International
#DayoftheGirl
! We want to inspire girls everywhere to unite in
#sisterhood
& remind them that they were born with the power to change the world. Join us today by raising your hand for a cause you believe in. Share your photos and be sure to tag us!
Girls Who Code has partnered with Activision Blizzard on our Summer Immersion Program since 2018. But following recent revelations about allegations of assault, harassment, and a toxic environment at the company, we have decided to end our partnership.
We are now accepting Crypto! This will give us more ways to support girls in tech and create pathways for new partnerships in this space, like our partnership with
@DapperDinoNFT
! Learn more and make your gift here:
We broke the internet. For real. 🔥😱
Why? Bc women make up 26% of coders. If all the code we wrote totally vanished, the internet as we know it wouldn’t exist.
So, TL/DR let’s get more girls who code.
Check it out 👇🏾
#MissingCode
#CSEdWeek
Happy birthday to Hedy Lamarr, known as the "Mother of Wi-Fi"! While known as a Hollywood starlet, Hedy was also an avid inventor- she created frequency hopping, a secure communications technology that’s used today in wireless internet, GPS and cellphones!
Good morning to everyone ESPECIALLY Dr. Katie Bouman, who, if you haven't heard yet, created the algorithm that gave us the first ever picture of a
#blackhole
!!
This
#DayoftheGirl
, we want girls to know they can change the world and, with a career in tech, 💸💸make change 💸💸 doing it. STEM jobs aren't just among the fastest-growing — they pay 26% more. Loved giving these women in tech the glam treatment they deserve.
#MakeThatChange
Times are tough—schools closed, parents WFH.
BUT, no shock here, our girls are still inspiring us✨
To return the favor, we're releasing FREE
#codefromhome
activities—FOR EVERYONE🎉
They drop every week, starting now✨
P.S. Snap a📸doing them & tag us!
This 19-year-old astronaut just became the youngest person in history to pass all NASA aerospace tests (and now
@NASABlueberry1
is prepping to become the first human to travel to Mars.) 🚀☄️🎉
#WCW
#GirlsInSTEM
"Human computer" Mary Jackson is starting to become a not-so-hidden figure (finally!)👏
@NASA
's DC headquarters is being renamed after the scientist who's work helped land the first man on the moon in 1969.
Today is
#MarchForSisterhood
: the first all-digital march in history – created for girls, by
@girlswhocode
.
For the first time ever, you can march from anywhere in the world to bring awareness to the issues you're passionate about. Join us now!
#DayoftheGirl
Happy Birthday to Grace Hopper! Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was a pioneer in computer programming, the first female individual recipient of the National Medal of Technology in 1991 & the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale in 1934!
Happy birthday to computer scientist and pioneer Grace Hopper. 🎂 Grace was the first female individual recipient of the National Medal of Technology in 1991. (She’s also known for coining the phrase computer “bug.”🐞)
Happy birthday
@Malala
!🎂🎉 Today is International
#MalalaDay
, a celebration of Pakistani activist and founder of the
@malalafund
Malala Yousafzai, who has diligently fought for the worldwide need for women’s education.
We can't keep writing women out of history. Please join us in celebrating the incredible work of Katie Bouman (and all her hard drives holding the data)!!!
#YouGoGirl
#WomenInTech
#EHTblackhole
Dear tech, discrimination and harassment have no place in the interview process, not in your company culture, not in society. Period.
#TechToo
Join the
#sisterhood
in calling for more equitable hiring practices in tech.
When you see the
#MakeSpaceForWomen
spot live!!
Did you see it?? Make sure to tweet
#MakeSpaceForWomen
so we can our goal of $500K tonight! We're counting on you fam!
We’ve been so excited for
@iambecky
to join our virtual stage, we’ve been “singing in the shower” all week. 🎶 🚿 Join Becky G and sign up for our virtual session with
@apple
today at 4pm PDT/7pm EDT.
We surveyed over 1,000 of our alumni. HALF OF THEM have had a negative experience in a tech interview.
Think all-male interview panels, discrimination, harassment.
#TechToo
Read more from
@WIRED
's
@NitashaTiku
Happy Birthday to US! We turn 7 today! 🥳💃
In seven years, we've taught 185,000 girls to code, inspired 100 million people and started an international movement!
#GirlsWhoCodeTurns7
To celebrate, we've released our 2018 Annual Report:
.
@Valkyrae
was a longtime gamer before she found streaming success and became the most-watched streamer in YouTube Live Gaming, with 12.2 million hours watched in 2021. She’s also fighting to make gaming safer for other women gamers.
While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last—because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.
Every
#WCW
this
#BlackHistoryMonth
, we’re spotlighting Black women making history in STEM. Today’s
#WCW
goes to the Black women gamers who are giving visibility to gamers of color and changing this game. 🎮🕹️
Happy birthday to computer science pioneer Grace Hopper, born
#OTD
in 1906. 👩✈️ Hopper created the first commercial electronic computer and developed the programming language COBOL.
#TodayInHistory
#OnThisDay
#CSEDWeek
@DojaCat
Thank you so much
@DojaCat
. Not only does this video help change the face of tech, the song is also a whole mood. 🎶🔥We can't thank you enough.
Congratulations to electrical engineer
@katvoltage
, the first Mexican-Born woman to go to space.
She recently graced the cover of Vogue México!
#HispanicHeritageMonth
Meet Hedy Lamarr, a Hollywood film actress and mathematician. Hedy invented “frequency hopping” which is still used today in Bluetooth and wifi technology.
#WomensHistoryMonth
We're on the side of
#NetNeutrality
- freedom and fairness on the internet are necessary for equitable access to computer science education for the next generation of female coders.
Today for
#DayOfTheGirl
, we raise our hands for:
Black girls
Brown girls
Latina girls
Disabled girls
Queer girls
Trans girls
Indigenous girls
Muslim girls
Immigrant girls
Undocumented girls
Asian girls
Girls Who Code
EVERY GIRL.
Raise your hand with us.
#sisterhood
The NFT scene is mostly male, but this digital artist is trying to change that.
@YKarkai
created the
@worldofwomennft
(WoW) NFT collection — a series of 10,000 diverse female avatars created to give back to women-centric orgs.
Jeannail Carter (
@cuddle_core
) was one of the first Black women to excel as a professional gamer in the male-dominated tech industry.
Now she’s inspiring other women of color to continue to break that glass ceiling.
This
#HiddenFigures
tribute definitely understood the assignment. 🤩
Ph.D. student and
@NASA
trainee Shelita Reneé Hall recreated the looks of famous Black women in STEM.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Dr. Katie Bouman created the algorithm that rendered the first picture of a
#blackhole
from pictures captured by the
#EventHorizonTelescope
, a series of 8 independent observatories around the globe. This Black Hole is 55 million light-years away from Earth! 🌎 🔭
#WomenInSTEM
These two high school students have proven Pythagoras’ Theorem without circular logic. The mathematical discovery is said to have not been proven by mathematicians for 2,000 years.
#WomenInSTEM
Did you know that a Black woman created the tech that makes zoom calls possible? 👩🏾🔬 Meet Dr. Marian Croak, a leader in tech who holds over 200 patents.
#BlackHistoryMonth
#DidYouKnow
Did you know the very first computer programmer was a woman? Happy
#AdaLovelaceDay
— today we celebrate Ada Lovelace, possibly the very first Girl Who Codes (but certainly not the last.)
#DidYouKnow
that a Black woman’s research is behind the creation of 3D movies? 📺 Valerie Thomas invented the illusion transmitter in 1980 which helped to enhance 3D movies and the way we watch television.
#BlackHistoryMonth
When
@byvegalia
couldn’t find the tools she needed to design realistic micro-braids on a Black character in her digital artwork, she created them. Now other digital artists can design characters with braids, twists, locs, and curlier textured hair. (🎥:
@Allure_magazine
)
Happy
#NationalVideoGamesDay
. 🎮Even though women account for nearly half of all gamers in the US, they make up only 24% of game developers.
Today, we want to celebrate amazing women in gaming who are changing the face of tech.
Happy Birthday to Margaret Hamilton,
@NASA
's first software engineer. Born
#OTD
in 1936, Hamilton led the team that created the flight software for the Apollo 11 mission which landed the first humans on the moon.
Georgia Hutchinson is 13 years old - and she just won $25,000 for inventing a solar-panel system that can determine where the sun is at any given time! ☀️
Georgia, you're a Girls Who Code QUEEN.👩💻👑✨
Our priority has and always will be to stand up for underrepresented groups in tech, and to ensure that they are given the support they need to thrive at work.
This news proves that our priorities are fundamentally misaligned, and we cannot continue to work with them.
We love seeing the
#BlackAtNASA
trend! 🚀At Girls Who Code, we’ve seen firsthand the impact positive representation can have on our students. Way to change the face of tech!
#WomenInSTEM
Read more:
We believe when you teach a girl to code, she will change the world! Our friends
@AppleEDU
couldn’t agree more, which is why we’re thrilled to announce a new
#Swift
tutorial for our 6th-12th grade Clubs coming this fall 🗓
#EveryoneCanCode
Learn more:
Happy Birthday to actress and engineer Hedy Lamarr, born
#OnThisDay
In 1914. Hedy Lamarr invented frequency hopping, an essential part of Wifi, GPS, and Bluetooth.
#WomenInSTEM
#TodayInHistory
Happy birthday to the mathematician who helped put the first man on the moon, Katherine Johnson. 🎂
Johnson, who would have been 103 today, was a literal “human computer” who calculated the flight trajectories for the first Americans in space.
#OTD
#TodayInHistory
We have some exciting news to share…
After nearly ten years fighting to close the gender gap in tech as our founder and CEO,
@ReshmaSaujani
is passing the baton to our COO
@DrTarikaBarrett
, who will lead us into our next chapter beginning on April 2nd.
Miona Short (
@BlkGrlUniverse
) made history by becoming the first Black woman to earn a degree in astrophysics at the
@UWMadison
.
Now she’s launching a new company that helps other women in STEM break the glass ceiling.
Of course, the first computer programmer was a woman in STEM! 💁♀️ 💻 ✨ Happy Ada Lovelace Day! A day where we celebrate incredible women who are honoring Ada’s legacy by making waves in the tech space.
#AdaLovelaceDay
#WomenInSTEM
Did you know that a Black woman invented laster eye surgery? Dr. Patricia Bath’s invention revolutionized cataract surgery and made her the first Black female doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention.
#BlackHistoryMonth
"My father, thankfully, is not alive to see how Mr. Yoho treated his daughter. My mother got to see Mr. Yoho's disrespect on the floor of this House towards me on television. I am here because I have to show my parents that...that they did not raise me to accept abuse from men."
Happy
#NationalSuperheroDay
! We want to thank the women in tech who help make the world a better place every single day. Which
#WomanInSTEM
is your hero? 🦸♀️🦹♀️🔬💻