I thought it was boring at first. When i actually started doing it reporter 11yearold Madison Harvey is one of 300 girls learning how to build a robot at this weekend workshop. Its put on by black girls code, a nonprofit aiming to bridge the gap in Stem Education for young girls of color. Shes excited about science and math and engineering. And what other opportunity for her to be around other girls that look just like her couldnt this one goo here . Many of these girls dont have role models in engineering or Computer Science. Black women make up less than 3 of the workforce at the biggest tech companies. Kimberly bryant, electrical engineer who worked in biotech dilemma. I was one of maybe two or three students of color in my Electrical Engineering class when i went to college. Reporter bryant founded black girls code with hopes of literally changing the face of technology. When we generally think of a Computer Scientist now, it does its very much white, male dominant. And thats impor
Her to be around other girls that look just like her couldnt this one goo here . Many of these girls dont have role models in engineering or Computer Science. Black women make up less than 3 of the workforce at the biggest tech companies. Kimberly bryant, electrical engineer who worked in biotech over 20 years, understand their dilemma. I was one of maybe two or three students of color in my Electrical Engineering class when i went to college. Reporter bryant founded black girls code with hopes of literally changing the face of technology. When we generally think of a Computer Scientist now, it does not look like a woman of color. Its very much white, male dominant. And thats important for us to show that black girls can code. Most black girls arent into computers and stuff. But its really cool and fun. Reporter black girls code held its first event four years ago in San Francisco with eight girls. Today the none profit has and johannesburg, south africa, with plans to expand to dallas
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Males. But theres an effort under way to break that glass ceiling. Black girls code is a young project reaching young africanamerican girls and showing them coding and computers can be fun. Together theyre working on cracking the code and its our cover story this week. I have no interest in doing this. I thought it was boring at first. When i actually started doing it reporter 11yearold Madison Harvey is one of 300 girls learning how to build a robot at this weekend workshop. Its put on by black girls code, a nonprofit aiming to bridge the gap in Stem Education for young girls of color. Shes excited about science and math and engineering. And what other opportunity for her to be around other girls that look just like her couldnt this one goo here . Many of these girls dont have role models in engineering or Computer Science. Black women make up less than 3 of the workforce at the biggest tech companies. Kimberly bryant, electrical engineer who worked in biotech over 20 years, understan