In Seattle, Girls Who Code are in partnership with Adobe and the Adobe Foundation, Amazon, AT&T, Microsoft, and Twitter.
In the New York region the following serve as program hosts: Accenture; Adobe and the Adobe Foundation; AIG; Amazon; AppNexus; AT&T; Bank of America; BlackRock; Goldman Sachs; IAC; IBM; JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Kate Spade & Company Foundation; Microsoft; Moody’s; Pfizer; Prudential Financial, Inc.; Synchrony Financial; Verizon; and Viacom. The Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
AT&T, Lockheed Martin, Oath Foundation (Formerly AOL Charitable Foundation), Salesforce.org and Software.org: The BSA Foundation. Georgetown University serves as a program host in the Washington D.C. region.
The Summer Immersion Program began in 2012 in New York City, offering rising 11th and 12th grade girls 300+ hours of immersive instruction in web development and design, robotics, and mobile development with mentor ship and exposure to top female engineers and entrepreneurs.
Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Programs will run this year from July 10 – August 25.
“Technology is about to change everything about the way we live and work,” said Girls Who Code Founder and CEO, Reshma Saujani.
“Computing jobs are some of the fastest-growing and highest paying in our country, yet girls continue to get left behind. Access to a computer science education can bring women into a thriving innovation economy and give families a real shot at the middle class. I want to thank the companies and foundations that have really doubled down on efforts this year to give girls the chance to prosper in today’s economy.”2017 marks the fifth year of programming for Girls Who Code’s flagship Summer Immersion Program. The Summer Immersion Program is a 7-week computer science course that embeds classrooms in major media and tech companies. Students learn the fundamentals of computer science – from robotics to how to build a web page – while gaining exposure to the tech industry and mentor ship from women working in technology. No prior coding experience is required. 93% of Summer Immersion Program participants plan to major or minor in computer science or closely related field and 84% of program graduates said they are likely to pursue a career in technology or a computing field.
