Supermodel Karlie Kloss launches summer school for girls to learn code
Karlie Kloss learned firsthand what many have known for quite some time. After enrolling in school at NYU, there weren't as many women in coding as she had previously thought.
It's no surprise. Already, we'd learned from Google's Made with Code initiative, that only .3% of girls go into computer sciences in college.
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To remedy this, Kloss wanted to encourage young women to find their calling with coding and is launching a summer program called, "Kode with Klossy," in three cities to help young women launch their own coding careers.
"Since taking my first coding class two years ago, I’ve learned how creative and versatile coding is," Kloss tells Mashable. "I decided to launch Kode With Klossy to help expand access to computer science courses and teach young women how to harness and apply the power of code to their personal passions."
The initiative provides nearly 80 scholarships to young women and girls in New York, Los Angeles and Kloss's hometown, St. Louis. The program will go for two weeks and will be a collaborative, hands-on experience for teens aged 13-18. The girls will learn the fundamentals of Ruby and build their own functional web-apps.
The application just launched Wednesday at KodewithKlossy.com with a deadline of April 30. All recipients will be notified by May 20.
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