Newton Girls Who Code

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Monday Session 20, 2019-04-08

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

Limor Fried

Watch Video

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• Limor's company https://www.adafruit.com/

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• Adafruit blog and videos
• https://blog.adafruit.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/user/adafruit/featured

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• What is "open-source"?
• Why is open-source important to Limor?
• What's interesting to _you_?�

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Summer opportunities

Artemis: Robotics, Cryptography, Artificial intelligence, and Circuits

• Five-week summer program for rising 9th grade girls (apply by May 1)
• http://www.bu.edu/lernet/artemis

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Codebreakers: Computers and Information Security

• young women who are currently in their freshman or sophomore year of high school (apply by May 1)
• http://www.bu.edu/lernet/cyber/

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Also check out

• http://www.bu.edu/mysummer/
• https://mitadmissions.org/apply/prepare/summer/

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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

End-of-year planning

Graduation May 6th

Practice

Presentations

One more session

after today

Question: Does anyone need more time? Would a session during school vacation week help?

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Question: Are people ready now/soon? Is there a new topic we'd like to cover on 4/22 or 4/29?

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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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