Our Thanksgiving Feast was a blast! I’d like to thank all of the attendees who were able to join us, it was great having you there. We will also be hosting a Christmas Party on Dec. 21st. The girls are welcome to bring their family members. I know that this is a busy time of the year, but we really hope you can make it! It will be a good way to wrap up the Read more…
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 Read more…
We hope you had a spooktacular October! This week has been very eventful as the XX Coders fall session has begun at the Wyandanch Family Life Center. At our first XX Coders meeting, the girls dressed up in fabulous costumes and had a lot of fun coding and eating candy. The girls have begun coding in Codecademy, learning the languages of Java, Python, and HTML and CSS. This fall, we will be focusing on coding Read more…
Happy September! I sincerely hope you have all enjoyed your summer! I am so excited to start teaching coding again! As the new school year approaches, we have received many inquiries about the fall session of XX Coders. I’m pleased to announce that the program will start again in October. It will be held at the Family Life Center in Wyandanch. We will notify parents and children via email shortly with exact dates and times Read more…
Hello everyone! Today was the last day of the summer session of the XX Coders camp. We had two speakers today to help us celebrate our code party! One speaker from Girls, Inc. came into walk us through a programming exercise. We also had another guest speaker come in to speak about her work as a female IT professional at the Wyandanch and Wheatley Heights Fire Department. Students also received awards and recognition for their Read more…
Hello everyone! Today, we visited the Google headquarters in NYC! It was a really exciting and informative experience! We toured the building, got to the see work spaces and common areas like the game room, ate delicious food from the cafeteria and participated in a panel where Google employees answered our questions about the tech industry and what it’s like to work for such an amazing company. We also learned about the strides Google is Read more…
Hello everyone! Today, we dived right into coding, continuing from where we left off from yesterday. Students worked on their Scratch/Python/Java programs in CodeCombat or TechRocket. We continued individual breakaway sessions where students spent one-on-one time with Mrs. Kavner and Aditi to speak about their goals, interests and what they hope to achieve through this camp on a more personal level. Tomorrow is our trip to the Google headquarters in NYC. We are leaving the Read more…
Hello everyone! Today was a very exciting day at camp! Students started the day by learning a new programming language called Java through an online platform called TechRocket. We had a guest speaker from Girls, Inc. Girls, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that encourages all girls to be strong, smart and bold through direct service and advocacy. Students participated in activities and open discussion promoting positive self-image, how the media influences our daily decisions, and Read more…
Hello everyone! Today students worked on deepening their programming skills by continuing from where they left off last week. They continued working on building fun games in Scratch or Python/Javascript through Code Combat. We played games as a group to get to know each other better. We also continued individual breakaway sessions where students spent one-on-one time with Mrs. Kavner and me to speak about their goals, interests and what they hope to achieve through this Read more…
Hello everyone! Today was an action-packed day! News 12 came to cover the camp and interviewed Mrs. Kavner, me and some of the students for a feature airing tonight at 7:37 pm. Please tune in if you can! We also had two guests speakers from the networking group, Long Island Women in Tech, come in today to speak to the students about educational and career opportunities and their experience as women in the computer science field. Their presentation Read more…