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Girls Who Code Founder Awarded McGraw Education Prize

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It was clear to me that I wanted to focus on girls and on technology—because I felt like that's where the jobs and opportunities are. Technology is more a part of everything we do. There’s not a moment of the day that goes by without a Girls Who Code club meeting in some town, some parish or some community center.

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How 60 Minutes Oversimplified the Gender Gap and Overlooked Women in Tech

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The leaders of Girls Who Code , a nonprofit whose mission is to close the gender gap in tech, and littleBits , a New York-based hardware company that uses educational kits to teach kids how to use technology, each responded to the 60 Minutes segment—which draws about 11 million weekly viewers—in separate posts on Medium that went viral.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Children'

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You hear it all the time, accompanied by a standard set of justifications about the pressing need to reform education: something about the " factory model of education ; something about radical shifts in the job market in recent decades; something about technology changing faster than it’s ever changed before. All of them.