Code First: Girls

Code First: Girls
Not for Profit Social Enterprise
Industry High tech startups
Founded 2012
Founders Alice Bentinck, Matthew Clifford
Headquarters London, England
Area served
 United Kingdom
Key people
 Amali de Alwis, CEO
Website www.codefirstgirls.org.uk

Code First: Girls is a Not for Profit Social Enterprise that works exclusively with women in Britain to develop coding skills.[1][2]

The organisation promotes gender diversity and female participation in the technology sector by offering free and paid training and courses for students and professional women.[3] It also supports businesses to train staff and develop talent management policies.[4]

As of June 2016, Code First: Girls is reported to have provided in excess of £1.5 million worth of free coding courses to more than 1,500 women since 2013.[5][6]

Programs

According to the Code First: Girls website, the organisation offers "simple web and computer programming".[7] The course aims are to provide practical skills that can be applied to a participants' studies, their workplace, or if they are beginning their own tech startup.[8] Delivery of the courses comprises in-person lectures and tutorials.

Application process

Code First: Girls

Code First: Girls provide free part-time coding courses called University Chapters, at UK and Ireland campuses, which is exclusively for female university students.[9]

General courses in London are also delivered and are open to women with the following eligibility: Aged between 18-23; or Aged 18+ and currently studying; or Aged 18+ and completed their studies in the past 2 years.[10]

Code First: Professionals

Code First: Professionals women's courses are fee paying. These courses teach participants to make a website, how to improve its design and how to publish it online.[11]

History

Code First: Girls began in late 2012 as "a nine-week, free, part-time course to get female graduates from all walks of life not only interested in coding, but also better equipped to contribute to technical discussions in high-tech businesses".[12]

Founded by Alice Bentinck and Matthew Clifford, Code First: Girls was created they recognised a lack of female applications for their pre-seed investment programme Entrepreneur First (EF) .[13][14][15] EF supports the development of Code First: Girls.[16]

Bentinck claims that of the first cohort to complete Code First: Girls training, more than half of the women participants now self-identify as "technical" or working in software-development roles.[17]

Amali de Alwis was announced as first Chief Executive Officer of the organisation on Wednesday 8 April 2015, taking over from Bentinck and Clifford .[18][19]

In 2016 Code First: Girls was nominated for a National Diversity Award.[20][21]

References

  1. ↑ "Are girls-only tech clubs the right way to get more women into the channel? | CRN". http://www.channelweb.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-11. External link in |newspaper= (help)
  2. ↑ Davies, Sally (9 May 2014). "Girl power cracks code to storm the land of geeks". Financial Times. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Code First: Girls". Code First: Girls. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  4. ↑ McDonald, Clare (29 June 2016). "To create more female engineers, we need to create more strong female role models". ComputerWeekly.com. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "Men still outnumber women in tech - what's your theory?". IT PRO. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  6. ↑ Finnegan, Matthew. "Teaching kids to code: Barclays Code Playground isn't the only game in town. Other tools and courses can inspire a new generation of software developers". Techworld. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  7. ↑ "Pros FAQ's". Code First: Girls. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  8. ↑ "Pros FAQ's". Code First: Girls. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  9. ↑ "A/W 2016 courses". Code First: Girls. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  10. ↑ "A/W 2016 courses". Code First: Girls. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  11. ↑ "CFG pros FAQs". Code First: Girls. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  12. ↑ "Girls-only coding class looks to increase female tech startup presence". http://www.v3.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-11. External link in |newspaper= (help)
  13. ↑ "Inspirational Woman: Alice Bentinck | Co-Founder of Entrepreneur First and Code First: Girls". WeAreTheCity.com. 2016-04-29. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  14. ↑ "ELLE's Tech Titans: Alice Bentinck". ELLE UK. 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  15. ↑ "Lessons from running a start-up accelerator". Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  16. ↑ "London's startup scene is getting more sophisticated". The Economist. 2016-03-10. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  17. ↑ "Lessons from running a start-up accelerator". Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  18. ↑ Kirton, Hayley (2015-11-24). "Britain's brightest bulbs in tech travel to Malta confernece". Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  19. ↑ "Amali de Alwis joins Code First: Girls as CEO". Code First: Girls. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  20. ↑ "I have just voted for Code First: Girls for Community Organisation at The National Diversity Awards, click here to vote for this person". nominate.nationaldiversityawards.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  21. ↑ "Register Your Interest". Code First: Girls. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
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