Girls Who Code Summer Session sponsored by Chevron and TFAE hosted local girls in a technology camp held at Fletcher Technical College June 10-14 .
Thirty girls entering grades 5-9th joined us from across Terrebonne Parish for a week filed with coding, hands-on STEM activities, sisterhood, hear from amazing women in STEM careers, and much more!
Thirty girls entering grades 5-9th joined us from across Terrebonne Parish for a week filed with coding, hands-on STEM activities, sisterhood, hear from amazing women in STEM careers, and much more!
Below are photos, videos, projects, and more from our fun week together. It's our hope that these awesome Girls Who Code learned not only about technology, but how to never give up!
Thank you Chevron for funding this camp and continued support of education!
Girls Who Code 2024 Facilitators
Many thanks to these awesome educators for their hard work, positivity, and dedication to this project!
Girls Who Code 2024 Campers
Our brave, inspiring, and awesome Girls Who Code!
Makey Makey Kit + Scratch Projects
Our Girls Who Code used Makey Makey kits, an innovation tool, to pair with their Scratch projects, a coding platform. The results can be just about anything you can imagine! Take a look at these photos of coding, imagination, and hard work in process!
Coding Projects
Campers utilized a platform called Scratch to learn and practice their coding skills. With these projects, they could make characters and have them move, dance, interact, and more. Girls created also created "loops" and "conditionals" which allowed them to build on their skills and have their characters do more complex actions. Some even had a dance off and created their own answer-and-response games!
Dance Battle
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Mad Libs
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Pong Game
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Puzzle Pieces
By itself, didn't look like much but when combined all of their pieces together - it revealed a secret code, which happened to be the motto of our camp:
BRAVE NOT PERFECT!
In addition to coding and technology, our camp is also about building confidence, speaking to and about ourselves positively, learning to be brave, and knowing it's better to TRY than to be perfect.
Binary Bracelets
Computers send and store all information using binary code, a way that information can be represented using only two options. Our Girls Who Code explored this idea by making Binary Bracelets.
Thank you to all of our speakers for inspiring our Girls Who Code!
Chick Fil A
T Baker Smith
Synergy Bank
Chemistry Roadshow from NSU
GIS
Mr Albert at Fletcher
Thank you to our community partners
Thank you Chevron!
Girls Who Code is an international program that offers free lessons and resources to teach girls how to code. Learn more about the program at www.girlswhocode.com!
If interested in starting a GWC Club in Terrebonne Parish, contact Ashlee Barahona at ashlee@tfae.org for more information!
If interested in starting a GWC Club in Terrebonne Parish, contact Ashlee Barahona at ashlee@tfae.org for more information!
Want to learn more about Girls Who Code?
Girls Who Code is an international program that offers free lessons and resources to teach girls how to code. Learn more about the program at www.girlswhocode.com! If interested in starting a GWC Club in Terrebonne Parish, contact Ashlee Barahona ashlee@tfae.org for more information!