Helping Communities: Black Girls CODE

There are not many women of color working with technology. Black Girls CODE wants to help!

Coding is a computer language. Code tells computers what to do. What can you do if you code? You can make games. You can make apps.

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There are not many women of color working with technology. Black Girls CODE wants to help!

More White families have the internet than African American families. Black Girls CODE has classes just for Black girls. The classes are about computers. Some girls learn how to make games. The girls like to work with computers. They learn skills.

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There are not many women of color working with technology. Black Girls CODE wants to help!

Black Girls
CODE has a big goal. They want to help Black girls get good jobs. They want to
train one million girls before 2040.

Black Girls
CODE wants to show the world that Black girls can code!

What Do You Think? Why does Black Girls CODE help Black girls learn how to code? How could learning coding help the girls?

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