During her own college career as an Electrical Engingeering major in San Francisco, CA, BGC founder Kimberly Bryant noticed the lack of other students, particularly women, who looked like her or could share similar challenges as a person of color. She agrees that many advances have been made to include underrepresented groups in STEM fields but writes, "there’s still a dearth of African-American women in science, technology, engineering and math professions, an absence that cannot be explained by, say, a lack of interest in these fields. Lack of access and lack of exposure to STEM topics are the likelier culprits."
The mission of BGC, according to Bryant, is, "to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders, coders who will become builders of technological innovation and of their own futures." She hopes to extend her organization's reach to as many young and pre-teen girls of color as possible in order to inspire creativity, imagination and curiosity about these fields and to give girls the education and resources to act and craft amazing technology.
BGC has visited the University of Texas at Dallas, Google New York, Spelman College in Atlanta, GA and South Africa! Can you imagine the new and unique technology that these fresh perspectives will bring to the STEM field??
For more information about BlackGirlsCODE please visit their website at blackgirlscode.com
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Til next time...
Ashley
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