{"id":41484,"date":"2016-05-10T17:07:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T22:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=41484"},"modified":"2016-05-10T17:07:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T22:07:26","slug":"girls-who-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/girls-who-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Why \u2018Girls Who Code\u2019 is just for girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Lucia Maffei<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, first prize is $10,000. It could be the first share of your college tuition.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 10-something girl with a cat ear headband sits at a computer desk at DePaul University’s downtown campus.\u00a0 Two friends of hers work side by side.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Saturday morning and every Saturday, Nancy and her friends Isa and Marissa attend the Girls Who Code club with 14 other young girls and six volunteer instructors and mentors. They log into the computers by using a special account created by the university and they start coding with Scratch, a free programming language designed especially for ages 8 to 16.<\/p>\n

During the weekly meetings, they created an app that connects people who need clean water with people who can provide it. By the end of the month, the fully-functional app \u2013 now available on Google Play \u2013 will enter in a global competition called Technovation Challenge<\/a>, giving Nancy, Isa and Marissa the chance to win the $10,000 prize.<\/p>\n

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A dynamic 47-year-old woman with black hair and a black fanny pack gives the group the tip about the $10,000 prize. She’s Lily Gulik, a sales manager for Oracle, and one of the mentors of the girls who strongly advocated for their participation in the challenge. When it comes to personal funding through accomplishments in computer science, Gulik knows what she is talking about.<\/p>\n

As the eighth of nine children, Gulik never supposed she\u2019d go to college. But she quickly realized that her talent for computer science could be her golden ticket to make a lot of money. And she jumped on it.<\/p>\n

At age 14, she was hired by telecom corporation AT&T because of the software she had invented \u2013 a program creating reports for billing. The offer led to a paid internship at the company, which gave her the opportunity to learn more about computer science. And that led to a scholarship from Amoco Foundation, known today as BP Foundation, to attend DePaul University, where she graduated with a major in computer science.<\/p>\n

Every Saturday, she arrives at DePaul from Albany Park at 9:00 a.m. and for two hours she teaches Scratch to middle school-aged girls. Then, she goes to the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she teaches the advanced session in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

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.Members of a University of Illinois at Chicago’s Girls Who Code club attend a workshop at Braintree headquarters, at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart. (Credits: Girls Who Code UIC Club)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gulik founded three local clubs of the national non-profit association Girls Who Code because she wanted to help other girls to learn computer science. \u201cIf I was selfish, I\u2019d help only my kids,\u201d she said, referring to Jasmine, 13, and Giselle, 11, who both attend the DePaul club.<\/p>\n

The goal of Girls Who Code is closing the gender gap in the technology and engineering sectors by teaching 6th to 12th-grade girls \u2013 and only girls \u2013 how to code. During Level One, girls learn basic concepts of computer science such as data types and loops by programming in Python. At Level Two, they learn web development, which mostly means using tools such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. By the time they start Level Three, they\u2019re ready for 3D graphics and mobile development.<\/p>\n

Some may ask why the opportunity to learn how to code for free isn’t granted to boys as well. But mentors \u2013 both women and men \u2013 don\u2019t see it that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe core mission is helping with gender inequality,\u201d said Gulik, referring to the gender gap in tech-related jobs. \u201cWe\u2019re in a mission to solve a problem, and there\u2019s no need to argue that there\u2019s a problem, because numbers tell us there is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Girls Who Code reported that 74 percent of middle school girls express interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, the so-called STEM fields. But, when choosing a college major, just 0.4 percent of high school girls select computer science.<\/p>\n

Number of middle school girls interested in STEM compared to high school girls who choose computer science as a college major (in percentage)<\/h2>\n
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Source: Girls Who Code. (Lucia Maffei\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Why does this happen?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s seen as a \u2018boys club\u2019,\u201d said Kyle Wong, 27, a graduate student in computer science at DePaul who joined Girls Who Code as a mentor two months ago. Nevertheless, many women have made significant contributions to the field. \u201cTake, for example, Margaret Hamilton. No one remembers who she is, but she wrote the code for the Apollo space program. Instead, everybody knows about Bill Gates.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mentor and graduate student Kyle Wong, 27, helps Nancy, 10, to work on her app about clean water at the weekly Girls Who Code meeting at DePaul University last Saturday. (Lucia Maffei\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wong pointed out that there are not many girls who are students in his classes. The majority of the girls are from China and India.<\/p>\n

The gender gap starts before graduate school, though. Fiona Baenzinger, an 18-year-old freshman at DePaul, said she counts five girls out of 40 students in her first-year mathematics class, and six girls out of 20 in her Python coding language class, where the instructor is a woman. \u201cIn the higher classes, we\u2019re going to see more men as teachers,\u201d she pointed out.<\/p>\n

Her forecast is plausible. According to Associate Dean Theresa Steinbach, among 58 full-time faculties in the School of Computing at DePaul, 24 percent are women. \u201cIt\u2019s a good rate,\u201d Steinbach said.<\/p>\n

Coming back to the point of view of students, Baenzinger also reported that many of her friends \u2013 girls \u2013 dropped the science-related classes.<\/p>\n

\u201cLearning in a male-dominated environment can be intimidating,\u201d said Baenzinger, a Naperville-native who joined Girls Who Code as a mentor in October 2015. \u201cThere\u2019s simply the assumption that boys are more comfortable, so everything is targeted to them. For example, nobody wants to work with a girl on group projects. That\u2019s why saying to girls \u2018You can do it\u2019 is so important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chicago ranks third in the U.S. in the number of Girls Who Code clubs, after New York and San Francisco. New York, the city where Girls Who Code was officially born as a formal association in 2012, counts today 79 clubs. San Francisco, where an above average number of people master the skills to teach coding because of the proximity of Silicon Valley, counts 20 clubs. But Chicago could do a better job at teaching girls coding, said Gulik, who founded three of a total of 14 clubs. \u201cIt\u2019s like a Lily Show, and it really shouldn\u2019t be,\u201d she said. \u201cIn the Chicago area, there are only four club organizers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Number of Girls Who Code clubs by city (only cities with more than one club)<\/h2>\n

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Most of the Chicago clubs meet at local college prep and magnet schools, both private and public. Two clubs are hosted at the University of Illinois at Chicago. (Lucia Maffei\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n

Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code Reshma Saujani graduated in political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Then, after completing Yale Law School, Saujani decided to start Girls Who Code because she saw the gender gap in a computing class firsthand in 2010, during her race as the first Indian-American woman to run for U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n

In slightly more than five years, the association has gone from a membership of 20 girls in New York to more than 10,000 girls in 42 states, according to the 2015 annual report. Clubs report that 65 percent of participants said they were considering a major or a minor in computer science because of their experience at Girls Who Code.<\/p>\n

By the end of 2016, Girls Who Code plans to reach more than 40,000 girls in every state through weekly club meetings and seven-week long summer immersion camps. Parents can sign up their daughters by checking the Girls Who Code website<\/a> and looking for the program they are interested in. Regular clubs <\/a>meet once a week during school year; summer camps<\/a> meet five days a week between June and July. They are both free, but parents need to provide transportation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had more requests than we were able to accommodate,\u201d said Sonika Anand, 29, a web developer, referring to the 40-spots in the summer program that will be starting in June at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The regular club had 20 students enrolled in 2014. The following year, the enrollment tripled to 60 students.\u00a0\u201cEven though it\u2019s a free program, parents take it seriously,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

A native of Indore, in central India, Anand arrived in the U.S. in 2009 to pursue a master\u2019s degree in electrical and computing engineering at UIC, after having graduated in computer science at Rajeev Ghandi University. She learned the programming language C++ during high school, but she had been interested in computer science since 5th grade, when teachers explained two other programming languages called Basic and Logo.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could do something and it worked,\u201d Anand remembered. \u201cThat got me really interested in computer science.\u201d<\/p>\n

But during middle school, she had nobody to guide her. And she said she was afraid to speak up in class. If she gave the wrong answer, she figured classmates would make fun of her.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving a support group gives girls a place to feel comfortable and gain confidence,\u201d said Steinbach,\u00a0 associate dean of DePaul’s College of Computing and Digital Media. She is also a teacher for Girls Who Code. \u201cAs a result, they can become a more confident member of other coding communities that include boys. We also try to expose girls to companies, speakers, challenges, role models and career opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking of career planning, the U.S. Department of Labor projects that by 2020, there will be 1.4 million computer specialist job openings. Not every job position related to tech, however, needs professional programmers. \u201cIt\u2019s a common misunderstanding,\u201d said Jeff Glidden, 35, Girls Who Code mentor since February 2016. \u201cYou can be a project manager, do quality assurance testing or business analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Projected percent growth in employment in selected occupations in computer related services, 2014-2024<\/h2>\n

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By 2024, there will be 39,500 more positions as web developers, for a total of 188,000, compared to 148,500 in 2014. (Lucia Maffei\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n

Glidden, a North Side resident, studied computer information systems and business before becoming the tech program manager at JPMorgan Chase & Co. He sees the gender gap in his workplace, he said. \u201cThere are way more men. The proportion is 60-40 in a good day, and 80-20 in a bad day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boys have plenty of opportunities to learn to code, said Jeff Ring, 51, another mentor. His tone is conclusive: \u201cIf boys want to code, great.\u201d Meaning, boys don\u2019t need to attend Girls Who Code clubs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are millions of technology-related jobs, and not enough girls to fill that positions,\u201d said Anand. \u201cWe really need to get girls excited about science.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Some of the girls who take part to the Girls Who Code club meetings at the University of Illinois at Chicago every Saturday morning. (Credits: University of Illinois at Chicago)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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