The Coding Girls Educational Tour arrives in Trieste to fight gender stereotypes in the scientific and technological fields. The programme is promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and the United States Diplomatic Mission to Italy in collaboration with Microsoft. The two-day programme (Nov. 12-13) includes intensive training sessions and a coding marathon at the university. Moreover, in collaboration with The Coding Box, Trieste will be transformed into the city of coding with programming labs for families and children, too.
More than one hundred high school Coding Girls will 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 5th edition of Coding Girls, the national promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and the United States Diplomatic Mission to Italy in collaboration with Microsoft.
The Coding Girls Tour 2018 visits Trieste. After the intensive training session held in schools throughout the city (Petrarca e L. Da Vinci – G.R. Carli – S. De Sandrinelli), over 100 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 13 at the University of Trieste. Thanks to the collaboration with The Coding Box, children and families will also participate in free mini-labs to learn about unplugged programming.
After Trieste, the tour will travel to schools and universities in Rome, 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.
Learn more about the Coding Girls Tour on Annalisa Cassarino’s [@Annalisa_FMD] Blog about the Coding Girls.
Thee Scratch galleries (the programming language used in the challenges) already include the works produced by the young women at the hackathons held in Milan (20 projects) and Turin (26 projects).
