As technology progress so should young black women progress in the field and Black Girls Code aim to make that plan achieve along with Google and Kurani with the new Black Girls Code Lab in NYC.
What is the Black Girls CODE Lab ?
Black Girls CODE is non-profit with a cult-like following for its mission to teach computer science to young black girls. Founder, Kimberly Bryant, an electrical engineer set that passion for goal to achieve over 1 million black girls to learn coding and aim towards a STEM career.
Kimberly Bryant , Founder of Black Girls CODE
To keep that goal alive and steady the organization partnered with Kurani to revamp its New York offices into a tech exploration lab for girls. The space will be home and headquarters for staff, student workshops, hack-a-thons, tech panels, and parent-daughter events.
How can young black girls get their Shuri and RiRi Williams on ?
MIT fan film clip of RiRi Williams building her suit (Marvel’s new young black female character to replace Iron Man)We designed the lab for kids to see how technology works inside. What’s inside a smartphone, how does a circuit board use copper, are there similarities between cameras and computers. The design takes us back to breaking things open and exploring how they’re made. When you remove the mysterious shell, the girls can see that tech is just parts and pieces, hardware and software they can tinker with and design themselves.
Visitors to the lab and girls attending workshops will be able to play with an assortment of gadgets curated and cracked-open by the staff. The lab has an interactive game challenging kids to match popular products like VR headsets and a Playstation with their lesser-known hardware insides. Even the ceiling is special, demonstrating how a motherboard works with its copper circuits.
Construction on the lab has begun and starting this fall 2018 in New York City. For more information on how to sign up your future Shuri check out Black Girl Codes programs and events.
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