Newton Girls Who Code

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Monday Session 17, 2019-03-11

Welcome!

(Let us know if you would like advice about your project)

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Plan for Today

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1. Spotlight: Women Who Code
2. Project Time
3. Stand Up meeting
4. Coding Time

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Spotlight: Women Who Code

Ory Okolloh

Watch Video

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• What problems did Ory Okolloh see and how does she use technology to address those problems?

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• What is Mzalendo.com? What purpose does it serve?

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• Why was Ushahidi.com created? Who uses Ushahidi? Is it effective?

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Plan for Today

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1. Spotlight: Women Who Code
2. Project Time
3. Stand Up meeting
4. Coding Time

Continue working on your projects!

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Plan for Today

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• Spotlight: Women Who Code
• Project Time
• Stand Up meeting
• Coding Time

… Stand Up Meeting

Stand Up Routine

1. Get together in your project groups.
2. Take turns sharing your answers to today’s questions to the rest of the class.

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Possible Questions to Answer

• What kinds of Women Who Code would you like to hear more about?
• What question(s) would you like to add to the bag of questions?
• What would you like to see more of / less of at our sessions?
• Is there something new you'd like to do at GWC in 2019?

Plan for Today

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• Spotlight: Women Who Code
• Project Time
• Stand Up meeting
• Coding Time

Coding Time

• Go to the Learn section of hq.girlswhocode.com.

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• Sit with someone from your project group if you're focusing on project work

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• OR choose activities outside of girlswhocode.com:
• https://repl.it/community (info)
• https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/html-css
• https://learn.adafruit.com/makecode/what-is-makecode
• https://hourofcode.com/us/learn
• https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python or https://www.learnpython.org/
• https://www.madewithcode.com/projects/
• http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/tutorials?

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Instructors take attendance

See you next week!

Don’t forget to be awesome!

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