By Charlotte Stone | Communications and Marketing Director
Last Summer, Girls Who Code graduated 375 high school girls from our intensive Summer Immersion Programs in New York City, Boston, Miami, Seattle, and all across the Bay Area. For 7 weeks, these girls learned programming languages, took field trips to tech companies, and learned from female mentors and guest speakers in the industry. By the end of the program, girls who had never even been exposed to computer science before were ready to pitch the products they had built on stage.
Two of these girls, Andy and Sophie, met at our IAC program in New York and teamed up to build something inspiring -- a video game called Tampon Run. Frustrated that we live in a society where gun violence is normal, but something as natural as menstruation is stigmatized, they thought: what if we built a video game and replaced the guns with tampons? That's exactly what they did.
After presenting Tampon Run as their final project at Girls Who Code graduation, they posted it online and it went viral, earning glowing press coverage in Time, Fast Company, Jezebel, and more. Andy and Sophie are a great example of what happens when you empower girls with technology. They'll not only build a game, they'll build a game to change the world. With your support, there's no limit to the positive change we can effect.
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