Code Savvy

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Causes: Children & Youth, Education, Educational Services, Philanthropy, Voluntarism Promotion, Youth Centers & Clubs, Youth Development Programs

Mission: Code Savvy empowers youth and educators with the knowledge, skills, and support to create with technology, interrupting and counteracting gender and racial gaps in computing. We create opportunities for hands-on computer science learning that inspires learners to transform the future.

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lmschlosser11 Volunteer

Rating: 5

10/02/2023

Being a woman in technology, I can speak from experience that the technology industry needs a path to create a more diverse future workforce pipeline. Code Savvy, through their program, Technovation Girls is doing just that. Teams of middle and high school girls build a mobile app, business case and a pitch focused on solving a problem in their community. Data shows that engagement of girls in tech increases greatly when they can see a path to creating technology to help a situation. What I also love about this program is that it gives girls hands-on experience in building tech and provides them the freedom to try coding but helps them discover other outlets for using technology. Building a business case, pitch video, logo, financials, and a marketing plan enables them to build multidisciplinary skills in tech. The program also recruits business and academic leaders throughout Minnesota to ensure a supportive community for the girls of the program. Showing how tech can be used for good, giving girls supportive leadership, and helping them build hands-on multidisciplinary skills in tech is making a difference. Minnesota needs to move out of last place in states offering computer science in high schools, and Code Savvy is helping fill that gap.

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