“Girls Who Code” Set Sights On Teaching 1 Million Women
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On Monday night, the monitors, keyboards and buzzing screens on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in downtown Manhattan were pushed aside for foamcore boards adorned with construction paper and smartphones perched on tall tables.
The 20 young women manning the boards were the first group of graduates from a Girls Who Code eight-week summer course, a program designed to attract more women to technical fields by teaching them how to build mobile apps and websites, launch a company and pitch investors. With support from companies like Twitter, General Electric, eBay and Google, the graduates also took part in mini-internships with New York tech companies and were assigned mentors from the field.
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