Programming for Girls with Jennifer Wadella
How do you get girls interested in programming and help them learn? While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard talk to Jennifer Wadella about her experience building Kansas City Women in Technology. Jennifer talks about trying to build a community of women peers in Kansas City, only to discover a huge group of women who wanted to get involved in technology. So off into the teaching practice, aimed at girls called Coding and Cupcakes and for women, an event called Coding and Cocktails. Lots of great thinking about how to make programming more approachable!
Guests:
Jennifer Wadella
Jennifer Wadella has been writing code since before she realized it was a credible career path. She currently works as the Lead Angular Consultant at Bitovi and loves building performant web applications, speaking at technical conferences, and brewing kombucha. Jennifer is an active member of the KC tech community and the founder of Kansas City Women in Technology(KCWiT), an organization aimed at growing the number of women in technology careers in Kansas City. She is the PubConf Sydney 2018 Champion, a Silicon Prairie Champion Award Nominee, Rising Trendsetter STEMMy award-winner, and is apparently Missouri's Coolest Woman according to Pure Wow!
Links:
- Missile Warning UI https://i.redd.it/33bkdlrbdca01.gif
- JewelBots https://jewelbots.com/
- PubConf https://pubconf.io/
- CoderDojo https://coderdojo.com/
- Coding and Cupcakes http://codingandcupcakes.kcwomenintech.org/
- Coding and Cocktails http://codingandcocktails.kcwomenintech.org/