February
Black Girls CODE’s Memphis Chapter hosted its first workshop of the year, Build a Webpage in a Day, on February 22. Thanks to a generous grant from the Memphis Chapter of the Society of Information Management received by Memphis Public Library, the workshop was free of charge!
Our New York Chapter hosted a Build a Webpage in a Day workshop on March 22, which introduced girls to HTML, CSS, and basic web structure.
We hosted our first ever workshop in Dallas, Build a Webpage in a Day, on April 19. Over 80 girls attended!
We hosted our first Mobile App Development workshop in Miami on May 31. Girls used AppInventor to create mobile apps using drag-and-drop programming blocks.
With our partners Hopeline Verizon and Break the Cycle, we hosted two loveisrespect hackathons in Oakland and New York on the same weekend, June 7 and June 8, on opposite coasts! Girls worked in teams with experienced mentors to design, build, and showcase apps that foster healthy relationships.
We partnered with Estella’s Brilliant Bus and Startup Edutech to bring the Tech Innovation Bus Ride. The bus embarked on a seven-city, eleven-day tour through the South from June 27 to July 8. One hundred fifty youth participated in coding classes and Civil Rights History tours on the road trip that made stops in West Palm Beach, FL; Atlanta, GA; Birmingham, AL; Selma, GA; Memphis, TN; Jackson, MS; and New Orleans, LA. Black Girls CODE hosted two Build a Website in a Day workshops during this tour in both Memphis, TN and Jackson, MS.
We hosted our last loveisrespect hackathon of the summer in partnership with Verizon Hopeline and Break the Cycle in New Orleans, LA on July 2 and July 3.
Black Girls CODE hosted a workshop and kiosk at the YesWeCode Tech Village at Essence Festival from July 4 to July 6. In addition to our kiosk and MaKey MaKey workshop, Kimberly was featured as a speaker! Thanks Kapor Center for Social Impact for sponsoring us, allowing us to attend Essence Fest. Over 500,000 people attended Essence Music Festival this year!
We hosted a Mobile App with AppInventor workshop with partnership from Thoughworks in Chicago on July 12. Development
We hosted a Summer of Code Game Jam on July 26 in Miami.