As an all-girls school, math and computer science teacher Abby McGillicuddy knew this was needed. I’ve got all girls, we’ll take it. We always hear how coding is not for women in the workplace and many are now trying to recruit women coders, so we’ve really strived to give those opportunities to our girls, McGillicuddy said.
LaunchCode wants to continue helping more students with its free curriculum.
Right now, it s looking for more schools to join. We’re just trying to get more schools involved, Bay said.
The program wants to double the number of participants from last year.