Girls Who Code

How one Girl Who Codes is helping educate women around the world

Stay curious! Patience in Coding: Leah Attai

Since she’d worked with robots before, Leah Attai had no idea that she’d have so much more to get out of coding! Leah joined 19 other girls for the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program in Stamford, CT hosted by Synchrony Financial and spent seven…

Career Q&A: Komal Mangtani, Engineering Leadership at Uber

Reading into the code: Grace Pfohl

My name is Grace Pfohl, and I am a Junior at River Ridge High School in Woodstock, Georgia. I am new to coding and have had the incredible opportunity to attend the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program at AT&T Atlanta this summer. I have had the chance to finally…

Jeopardy Whiz, Girl Coder: Courtney Jones

Meet Courtney Jones, from Largo, Maryland! She spent seven weeks of her summer in the AT&T Washington D.C. Summer Immersion Program, expanding on her love of STEM and learning to solve problems she’d never before encountered. Courtney’s fun fact? She met…

Coding and Sisterhood: Vivian Phung

Hi! My name is Vivian Phung, and I am from Hayward, California. Girls Who Code has given me the chance to pursue a subject that I have always been interested in learning, but never had the chance to do it. Computer science is a growing field that will become more…

Plotting a course with Girls Who Code: Madison Saunders

Hi! My name is Madison Saunders and I am 16 years old. I currently attend Archer High School in Lawrenceville, Georgia. This year, I was blessed with the opportunity to participate in the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program…

Cassandra Marcussen and Michelle Woo:

From Learning to Code to Changing the World

Meet Cassandra Marcussen and Michelle Woo from Greenwich High School. They started their own Girls Who Code club and went on to create an app called “Under My Wing,” an app with features…

From cartoons to coding: Rita Vega

Meet Rita Vega! This new Girl Who Codes lives in Miami and loves to make t-shirts and cartoons. Since starting with the Summer Immersion Program hosted by the Knight Foundation at Miami Dade College, Rita has stepped outside of her comfort zone, learned to code, and…

Congressional App Challenge Winner: Priya Koliwad

I’m the kind of person who loves to try new things. I absolutely love it! Now am I good at everything I try? No, not at all. When I entered high school, there was a plethora of new opportunities. Within the first month of school I ran for class…