The Roman appointment for the Coding Girls Educational Tour, the programme that fights gender stereotypes in the fields of science and technology, promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and the United States Diplomatic Mission to Italy, in collaboration with Microsoft, includes intensive training sessions in schools and a programming marathon at the Rome Campus Bio-Medico University with special guest Maria Chiara Carrozza, Scientific Director of the Fondazione Don Gnocchi.
More than one hundred high school Coding Girlswill travel around Italy from November 6 to 20 to train 6000 peers in 28 schools in 7 Italian cities. The aim is to overcome gender stereotypes, identify female talent and leadership, and allow young women to experiment with the use of new technologies. These are just a few of the challenges of the 5thedition of Coding Girls, the nationalpromoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and the United States Diplomatic Mission to Italy in collaboration with Microsoft.
The Coding Girls Tour 2018 has arrived in Rome. After intensive training sessions in schools throughout the city and province (Lombardo Radice, Volterra in Ciampino, Peano in Monterotondo, Majorana in Guidonia, Croce Aleramo, Machiavelli, Tognazzi in Velletri, Tullio Levi Civita, Loi in Nettuno, Alberti, Russel) over 200 young women, guided by American Supercoach Emily Thomforde, Code Educator and Science Technology Engineering Art and Mathematics (STEAM) Specialist, by FMD coaches and young volunteers form the Friuli Venezia Giulia Italo-American Association, will participate in a hackathon on November 15 at the Rome Campus Bio-Medico University.
Speakers include: Giulio Iannello, Dean of the Departmental Faculty of Engineering and Professor of Computer Sicence, Rome Campus Bio-Medico University; Marlene Nice, Deputy Cultural Affairs Officer, United States Embassy, Italy; Mirta Michilli, Director General, Fondazione Mondo Digitale and special guest Maria Chiara Carrozza, Scientific Director of the Fondazione Don Gnocchi.
After Rome, the tour will move on to schools and universities in Naples, Salerno and Catania. The collaboration with universities is one of the main novelties of this edition, the result of one year of work by the Coding Girls Association, that today has over 25 hubs in Italy. The challenge is also launched to the world of enterprise. In fact, this year, companies will be able to “adopt” a young female student and help her in her studies, thereby contributing to the emergence of new talents, competences and professional profiles.
