About Us
Find out more about our initiative and its objective.
Our Mission
We are highschool students very passionate about closing the gender gap between men and women in STEM related fields, namely computer science. We came together to create no-tuition web development programs for middle school girls in the tri-state area, to encourage women from a young age, and to teach them to conquer the ultimate super power: coding. During the duration of the "crash courses" we would like to teach the girls markup languages like HTML5 and CSS3, as well as a brief introduction to the more complex, object-oriented programming language of javascript if time permits. By the end of the each program, the girls will have all skills necessary to create a dynamic, interactive and functional web application. Please feel free to contact us for further information, or to find ways to get further involved because encouraging women to code is something we feel our world really needs to see, and taking the initiative to build this camp seems to be the best way to break the preexisting stereotype that limits females daily.
MEET THE FOUNDERS
Shamini Wadhwani
Shamini is a part of the Bergen County Academies graduating class of 2018, and she belongs to the Academy for Engineering and Design Technology. At BCA she serves as the copresident of the Technology Student Association, as well as a part of the organizing comittee for hackBCA. This past summer she particpated in idTechCamp, and has been certified in C++. Shamini is also highly proficient in Python, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Java, HTML and CSS.
Sarah Chowdhury
Sarah is a junior at the Academy for Medical Science Technology at Bergen County Academies. Although she's in the medical academy, she is interested in bridging the gap between medicine and technology. She attended the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program last summer, where she learned multiple languages such as Scratch, Python, C++, HTML, JavaScript and CSS. She is co-founder and co-president of her school's chapter of Girls Who Code, where she helps teach underclassmen girls about computer science and coding. In her spare time, she likes to read and play the violin.