The sixth edition of the National Coding Girls Tour ended on Friday with the hackathon in Rome. The educational relay reached 14 cities, selecting the most original and innovative projects developed by young women during the coding marathons organized by two American super coaches: Anthonette Peña, National Board Certified Teacher and STEM Teacher Lead, e Emily Bradford, independent writer and software developer based in Silicon Valley. The Catania hackathon, cancelled due to a weather alert, still needs to be rescheduled.
Here are the news addressing the most significant projects selected by the jury city by city.
- Superheroes in White Robes [Turin, November 5]
- Augmented Intelligence [Milan, November 6]
- Tools for Learning [Bologna, November 7]
- If There Were No Boundaries? [Trieste, November 8]
- Girls’ Stories [Pistoia, November 9]
- Coding Girls on Mission [Pisa, November 11]
- A Genius is not a Magician [Cagliari, November 13]
- “Lights and Shadows” Challenge [Salerno, November 14]
- How the Future is Changing [Naples, November 16]
- Knowing the Difference [Bari, November 16]
- Between Past and Future [Palermo, November 18]
- Rethinking Reggio [Reggio Calabria, November 20]
- Everything is possible [Rome, November 22]
The Coding Girls Programme, promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and the United States Embassy in Italy in collaboration with Microsoft Italy, aims to promote gender equality in science and technology. The sixth edition will be held on November 5-22 and will involve 10,000 young women in 14 Italian cities.
PROJECT PROFILE
GIRLS PROGRAMMING THE FUTURE
The new generations of young women can reach that “glass ceiling” more quickly and reach the gender equality objective at work. According to the World Economic Forum, at the current rate, it will take over 100 years.
OBJECTIVE
The objective of the Coding Girls Programme-Project is to accelerate the achievement of equal opportunities in the scientific and technological fields by acting on a range of fronts:
- Fighting prejudice and stereotypes
- Peer training
- Positive models
- Transformative educational experiences
ACTIVITIES
- Coding in Schools
- Educational relay amongst cities
- Theme-based hackathons
- Local events
MODEL
The Life Education Model aligns education and training to 21st century challenges.
EDUCATIONAL CONTENT
- Computational thinking
- Team-building activities
- Animation techniques
- Storytelling
METHODOLOGY
- Train the trainers
- Peer to peer
- Team building
- Learning by doing
COACHING TEAM
- American Super coaches
- Phyrtual Innovation Gym Coach
- Tutors
- Students
- Facilitators
- Volunteers
AN ALL-FEMALE ALLIANCE BETWEEN ITALY AND THE UNITED STATES
In 2014, as part of the Italian Presidency of the EU Council and the EU Code Week, the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and the United States Embassy in Italy, in collaboration with the American Girls Who Code Association, launched the first edition of CodingGirls Rome-USA, which included eight days of events entirely dedicated to young women fro primary to second-degree secondary school. The initiative was supported by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, Roma Capitale, the Department of Computer Science at Sapienza University and Microsoft. The project has expanded over the various editions, becoming a year-ling programme and giving rise to an association.
SIXTH EDITION
Coding Girls involved 10.000 young women in 14 cities
- Bari
- Bologna
- Cagliari
- Catania
- Milan
- Naples
- Palermo
- Pisa
- Pistoia
- Reggio Calabria
- Rome
- Salerno
- Torino
- Trieste
12 months of projects with
- 2 super coaches + 150 coaches (seniors, tutor, facilitators)
- Train-the-trainer programme
- Educational tour in schools with 14 hackathons
- 13 universities
- 2 American Corners
PARTER
The American Embassy in Italy and Microsoft are our historical partners. Starting from school year 2019-20, Turin organised three-year edition of the programme in collaboration with the Compagnia di San Paolo, involving 600 young women.
ASSOCIATION
In September 2017, the Coding Girls Association was founded by 15 women and 3 men. Today, there are 25 Coding Girls Crews, workgroups of young women who organise local meetings on coding and STEAM subjects for their peers and local areas.
Photo Gallery of the Coding Girls Tour
