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Excited to participate on behalf of The Futures Fund in Senator Regina Barrow's 2nd Annual Girls, Gigabytes and Gadgets. This event combines discussion forums and hands on workshops to get young women and girls engaged in technology. More info. Join me at the Coding/App development workshop at the Louisiana Technology Park. The Hour of Code started as a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify "code", to show that anybody can learn the basics, and to broaden participation in the field of computer science. It has since become a worldwide effort to celebrate computer science, starting with 1-hour coding activities but expanding to all sorts of community efforts. =============================================================================== My Favorite Event Photos View Slideshow

Article As a kid, Kaya Thomas enjoyed reading. “No matter how old I was, what I was going through, how I felt in any moment, a book was always a means of escape” she  wrote in a blog post in 2015 . “A way to dive into a new world and become a new character.” As a self-professed “nerdy black girl in high school,” Thomas’ love of books, and the escapism they afforded, only grew. She’d read three or four a week, seeking solace in their pages when she “felt very different than most of my peers.” Something changed in those high school years, though. As a mature reader, she began to pay more attention to how the characters in her favorite books were described ― namely, how they were meant to look. “When I was a teenager I began to realize that a lot of the books I read didn’t have characters that looked like me,” she’s since admitted . “Realizing that made me feel invisible.” So as a student at Dartmouth College, Thomas decided to do something about her sense of invisibilit...

Excited to be a part of Girls who Code at Southern Lab!

If you are looking for ideas and inspiration, please take a moment to review the following FabFem profiles:  Ellen Yi-Luen Do ,  Reta White ,  Nicole Ward . Here is my FabFems profile :

Looking for a method of introducing coding to your little ones?  This is the perfect book for a 6-10 year-old interested in coding and logic. It also provides starter projects that vary in complexity.  Amazon The first time your child logs into Scratch, a parent must authorize the login and help setup the user ID and password. Choose a fun username that maintains your child's anonymity. This way, your little coder can share her work with the world and interact with the Scratch community. Have fun!

Science Quest Summer Camp at the Capitol Park Museum About the class:   Introduce students to computer science and programming using Scratch. Developed by MIT Media Lab, Scratch is a free, easy-to-use programming tool to create stories, games, art, music, and animations. Students simply imagine, program, and share. Scratch projects are a great way to address 21st century information and technology skills while promoting creativity, problem-solving, reasoning, and collaboration. This popular and practical tool has applications across grade levels and content areas.  Some of the objectives covered:    Understand the difficulty of translating real problems into programs. Realize the need for formal programming structures like loops and functions Introduce Scratch resources and examples Hands-on: Explore and evaluate Scratch examples Introduce Structure and Logic of Scratch Hands-on: Create a basic project i...