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| Tech-Savvy Girls: SisterMentors Technology Workshops for Girls of Color | |
Eighteen SisterMentors girls spent the month of May in technology workshops learning how to build a simple Web site. Girls 12 to 15 years old from middle and high schools in Alexandria, Virginia and Prince George's County, Maryland, learned HTML (hypertext markup language), the computer coding used to create Web pages. But the workshops did not just stop at HTML, girls also learned how to do sophisticated searches for text and images using search engines, how to copy multiple files simultaneously, how to execute commands from the keyboard instead of from the pull down menu and the uses of the left and right clicks on the mouse. The excitement and enthusiasm were palpable in the room as the girls used their imagination and creativity to choose colors and write text for their Web pages. Here are some of the Web pages our girls created:
We would like to thank the following contributors for making the technology workshops possible: Linda Orr, the Jerry Taylor and Nancy Bryant Foundation, The Twenty-First Century Foundation, Saks Incorporated Foundation, Sullivan & Worcester LLP, and our wonderful individual donors. Thanks to the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation for continuing inspiration and encouragement. And thanks to Donya Douglas of BBC Technologies for her professionalism, enthusiasm, and patience while developing the curriculum and teaching the workshops. And for being a great woman of color engineer role model for our girls!!! | |
Shireen K. Lewis, J.D., Ph.D., Executive Director | |
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