Welcome back! The bus will come to pick up students starting at 2:15 pm and will be dropped off starting at 6. Parents and/or Guardians – please make sure you pick up your phone when the bus driver calls. Today we had our lovely coders begin their two week coding journey! We are trying to increase student access and exposure to computer science education, specifically on the visual programming language, Scratch. The girls started off our Read more…
This past Thursday, the XX Coders celebrated their last day of class! After a wonderful 8 months, the girls have learned about HTML, CSS, Python, and JavaScript. They have made games, met an astronaut, done confidence and self-esteem boosting exercises, created their own websites, and more! To celebrate all their accomplishments, we had a pizza party as well as games and activities on the last day of class. The girls reminisced on everything they learned Read more…
On Thursday, May 2nd 2019 from 4 PM to 8 PM – XX Coders will be having a Fundraising Night at the Walt Whitman Mall Panera Bread. Panera will give us 20% on our the XX Coders Fundraising Event for each order that is placed. Let your friends and loved ones know! Be sure to present this email or flyer before ordering your food! We hope to see you all there! Wear your XX Coders t-shirts! We will not be meeting next Thursday (Enjoy Read more…
This week, XX Coders was honored to attend One Giant Leap: Apollo 11@50. This conference celebrated the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. The highlight of the conference was the speech from Dr. Mae Jemison, the first woman of color to travel to space. XX Coders is so proud to have met this inspirational role model. The girls learned so much about space and were inspired by the powerful words of Dr. Mae Jemison! Our Read more…
Happy New Year! I hope everyone is doing well, I wish you all the best for this upcoming year. Our holiday party was filled with fun activities and food ! A big thanks to those who were able to join us. The girls ended the year strong: we bonded, ate food, played games, and did coding activities. Now that we are back from the break full speed, we will once again be focusing on their Read more…
Today concluded our second annual, two week summer camp! It has been such an honor getting to know these girls and seeing them and their skills grow through this camp. Many of our students began this journey not having any experience what-so-ever with coding and found themselves today creating programs in advanced languages such as JavaScript and Python. We, here at XX coders have gotten to know the girls very well and felt that the Read more…
After much anticipation, the STEM Queens finally went on a trip to the Microsoft flagship store in Manhattan. They had an awesome time with the lovely folks from Microsoft! They were first taken to a private WMR (Windows Mixed Reality) workshop, where they played with augmented reality and Paint3D. They learned how to create their own 3D avatars, which were then translated into real pictures and put into a video slideshow. It was fun to Read more…
The moment everyone has been waiting for! Python Day was upon us today as the girls enjoyed their lunch followed by some freelance codding on websites such as datacamp, codeacademy and snakify where they advanced their skills by playing around with more advanced coding concepts such as ‘while’ and ‘for’ loops. These tools, along with many others the girls discovered, were created to help shorten the response time between the code itself and real time. Read more…
The STEM Queens kicked off the day by continuing coding exercises from the previous week. After a few camp days of guest speakers and fun activities, they are pumped and ready for learning different programming languages. A few of them have now moved forward with Snakify, a platform that teaches the basics of python, as well as web design. During break, we walked to 7-11 where the girls enjoyed slurpees on a hot day. For Read more…
We had such an awesome day today! Upon arrival the girls were greeted by their mentors as they took a seat and enjoyed two guest talks by [*] from Cannon and [*]. These amazing women took time out of their busy lives to come and talk to the girls about their personal experiences working in the tech industry and finding their carrier path. Ms.[*] shared her story of starting her carrier in college as a photographer Read more…