Over the past few years I have been troubled that most of the students attending my technology camps have been boys. I have varied the topics and altered the advertising, and still more boys than girls. During camp the girls are quieter and less likely to take over as the boys are. This year I decided to create a club just for girls focused on coding. I recruited the help of my campus librarian to help with this group. Our skills compliment each other well and she knows some of the girls from other clubs and activities.
Out first meeting we had about 21 girls come and they were excited to get started. We used materials from Made With Code. We had them draw out an avatar on paper and then recreate it using the Avatar program.
The second meeting we had a few less girl's but, we also had to postpone it a week due to my getting sick. We created a beat using the Beats program on Made with Code. They then downloaded the music and used it in scratch to make their own musical animation.
This last meeting we had about 10 girls come. December is a hard month with all the extras going on adn ti was also the week of Hour of Code. I showed them how to code a Christmas Tree on made with code and then we made a Holiday Card with Scratch.
Beginning in January we are going to start working on creating apps and also have a field trip planned to the Microsoft Store in Austin. I am looking forward to these!
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