Time flies—we’re already halfway through November! This week, we introduced the girls to making personal websites using WordPress, a very commonly used system used to make websites. They explored the dashboard controls and how to create a new blog post and change the main image for the website. Because next week is Thanksgiving, we won’t be meeting on November 23rd. However, all of the girls are welcome to bring their families to our November 30th meeting for a Thanksgiving feast! We hope you can join us. Additionally, we’d like to ask that you please encourage other girls in your community to join our class in order to learn about the wonders of technology and join our mission to close the gap in the tech industry.
Exciting news is that XX Coders will be part of We Connect The Dots 48-hour code-a-thon January 26th to the 28th in 2018! This is a two-day sleepover code-a-thon where students, even with no experience in coding, are able to work in groups to create their own coding project– whether it be an app, website, or game! This is a great opportunity for the XX Coders to meet boys and girls from different districts and different backgrounds all while bonding with them over the course of a weekend. It also will allow them to meet amazing people who have pursued the career of technology and computer science.
Participants are encouraged to sign up now through this link, by selecting the “Westbury, NY” location. Also, please make sure that when you write your school name you also include “XX Coders” so that the organization will know we are coming together as a group: http://we-connect-the-dots.org/register-for-codeathon-2018
Once again, the program is open to all girls in the greater Wyandanch area. XX Coders runs from 5 to 6:30 PM every Thursday at the Wyandanch Family Life Center at 20 Andrews Ave, Wyandanch NY 11798. We hope to see you there!
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