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I Spent Spring Break Teaching Girls to Code
"I wanted to help other students feel the same adrenaline rush, the 'eureka' moment when a program suddenly works," Christina Li says.
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During spring break, I taught thirty girls how to complete projects in game design with Scratch, develop apps with MIT AppInventor, create robotics programs with Finches, and design websites with HTML/CSS. In addition to daily projects, I hosted video conferences and speaker panels with women from the industry. Specifically, I want to help other girls, since we are such an underrepresented minority in technology.
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