As part of the Italian Presidency Semester of the European Union Council and the European Code Week, the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and the American Embassy in Italy, in collaboration with the American Girls Who Code Association, promote Coding Girls Rome-USA. Coding Girls Rome-USA is a weeklong event (October 12-19) that will be entirely dedicated to young girls in primary and secondary schools, as well as young female university students and researchers.
The event is also supported by MIUR, Roma Capitale, the Sapienza University Department of Computer Science and Microsoft. The program includes programming courses for 400 girls, a hackathon, family coding at the Rome Phyrtual Innovation Gym and much more
The Press Conference will be held on October 14 (12:00 am) at the American Embassy in Rome (Young Room, Sembler Palace, via Sallustiana 49 entrance).
Speakers, besides the participating teachers and students, will include:
- Elizabeth M. McKay - Office of Public Affairs, Embassy of the United States
- Alessandra Cattoi – School, Infancy, Youth and Equal Opportunities Councillor, Roma Capitale
- Marta Leonori - Productive Activities Councillor, Roma Capitale
- Alfonso Molina - Professor of Technology Strategy, University of Edinburgh and Scientific Director, Fondazione Mondo Digitale
- Elizabeth Ivory Caudle - New York Program Manager, Girls Who Code
- Donatella Solda Kutzman - Ministry of Education, University and Research
- Alessandro Panconesi - Director of the Computer Science Department, Sapienza University
- Roberta Cocco - Social Responsibility Manager, Microsoft Italy
- Mirta Michilli - Director General, Fondazione Mondo Digitale
Follow the event on Twitter with hashtag #codingirls
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