,The Chicago Youth Center – Sid Epstein Makers Lab developed a STEM program specifically for girls called TinkerBelles, which exposes them to hands on projects, specialized leaning and career opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. As our first endeavor, we invited Arelia Jones, a web developer from Career Builder and an Instructor for Coder Space, to speak to our girls. Although we had a few technical difficulties, Arelia shared an engaging presentation that charted her journey in the tech field. Arelia also shared that even as a young girl, she developed websites. I asked her, “Knowing what you know now, how much money could you have charged for the websites?" Her response was anywhere from $500 - $1,000. After doing the math, we estimated that a person their age would have to work about 4 weeks at McDonalds to make that amount of money. Overall, the goal was to spark the girls' interest in coding websites and consider being a young entrepreneur. We shall see… We’re planning to take the TinkerBelles to see the movie Hidden Figures, a film about 3 brilliant African-American women at NASA who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history - the launch into orbit.
0 Comments
|
Living 2 LearnLiving 2 Learn provides after-school and out-of-school programs to youth and teens. Archives
November 2020
Categories |