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Black Girls Code continues spreading its reach – to be in Memphis this Feb
Breanna Collins was one of 14 girls who built a video game at the Black Girls Code session in the fall of 2011. PHOTO/Black Girls Code
“The lack of women in the technology space and the lack of people of color was something that was really glaring to me over and over again.“
–Kimberly Bryant
Founder, Black Girls Code
The founder of the Black Girls Code organization, Ms. Kimberly Bryant will lead the organization in open a workshop in Memphis, Tennessee on February 16 in the Paul Barret Jr. Library at Rhodes College.
Black Girls Code is an organization that introduces programming, coding and technology to young African American girls whose reach has expanded considerably throughout the United States in the past year.
“Our goal is to have chapters in as many places as we can over the next 10 to 15 years,” Bryant said. “For 2013, our goal is to build strong, independent chapters in seven cities, Memphis being one of them. We actually have more cities that have asked us to come start a chapter than we have the resources to do, because we’re still small.”
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Black Girls Code offers programs like weekend workshops on topics like game development, HTML/CSS basics, robotics and other basic programming concepts. There are also summer camps offered as five full-day sessions to give girls the opportunity to learn deeper programming concepts and there are field trips to area tech companies to meet industry professionals.