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Girls Who Code: youth nonprofit uses software built at Bryn Mawr College

Since 2006, Bryn Mawr College, in partnership with Georgia Tech, has run the National Science Foundation-backed Institute for Personal Robots in Education, developing materials to teach computer science at various levels.

One Girls Who Code participant signs in at a recruiting event at Google's New York City office. Photo by Nicole Bengiveno for the New York Times.

Girls Who Code, the New York City-based nonprofit that teaches computer science to high school girls, has a secret weapon: Bryn Mawr College‘s Computer Science department.

For the second year in a row, Girls Who Code has used software developed at Bryn Mawr, a liberal arts women’s college on the Main Line, to teach its students subjects like robotics and animation, according to a story on Bryn Mawr’s website. Ashley Gavin, a Bryn Mawr alumna, developed Girls Who Code’s curriculum.

Since 2006, Bryn Mawr College, in partnership with Georgia Tech, has run the National Science Foundation-backed Institute for Personal Robots in Education, developing materials to teach computer science at various levels. The schools have developed textbooks, low-cost robots and software as part of the effort.

Read more on Bryn Mawr News here.

Companies: Girls Who Code / Bryn Mawr College

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