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GirlCode

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 Sandton, Gauteng

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Sandton, South Africa

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We help young women and girls by upskilling and re-skilling them through technology.

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GirlCode is a registered NPO aimed at empowering young girls and women through technology. We do this through various initiatives such as Hackathons: GirlCodeHack is an annual event where computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers and project managers, collaborate intensively on software projects. The primary goal of this event is to raise awareness of female technical talent and foster a competitive, yet cooperative, and congenial culture for talented female techies. GirlCoder club: GirlCoder club a nationwide network of free, volunteer-led, weekend coding clubs designed for high school girls who want to have a strong foundation in digital literacy and basic programming skills. The girls in the program will have a choice of learning basic computer literacy skills that will help them in university no matter what career they choose or they could learn everything from mobile development to HTML and CSS while ...

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Lego Robotics Career Day at SAGE.

Lego Robotics Career Day at SAGE

GirlCode Hackathon 2016.

GirlCode Hackathon 2016

Teaching girls coding for Africa Code Week.

Teaching girls coding for Africa Code Week

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