Adalab’s sisters
All the adalabers know that we aren’t the only group of women who are doing this around the world, but sometimes we don’t know who and where our “sisters” are. In this article we talk about other programming schools for woman.
Black Girls CODE (USA)
Black Girls CODE is a non-profit organization based in the USA. According to their website (XXXX) their vision is, in their own words, “to increase the number of women of color in the digital space by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology”.
Black Girls CODE was launched in 2011 by Kimberly Bryant, who was looking to provide young African-Americans with the skills to occupy some of the 1.4 million computing job openings expected to be available in the U.S. by 2020. The students learn programming languages such as Scratch or Ruby on Rails.
TechLadies (across Asia)
TechLadies is an initiative for women in Asia to advance as programmers in the tech industry. It was founded in 2016 by Elisha Tan and is run by volunteers.
This organization has a variety of programs and, among them, a 12-week bootcamp designed for women who wish to be professional programmers. Their aim is to help women with basic coding background to switch careers into the tech industry. They also provide scholarships for people with financial difficulties.
Afchix (across Africa)
AfChix was founded in 2004 by Dorcas Muthoni for African women and now the foundation has spread throughout 25 countries in Africa. AfChix’s objective are women between 9 and 18 years who have decided to dedicate their future to ICT or computer science careers. They are looking to promote gender diversity in the industry, increase the number of females in leadership positions and the renewal of the technology sector. With all this effort they are beginning to create a egalitarian technological sector in Africa.
Laboratoria (across South America)
Laboratoria is an ONG very similar to Adalab. They work focuses on teaching south-american women web development either with web programming courses or UX/UI design courses. It was founded in 2014 by Mariana Costa Checa, Hernan Marin and Rodulfo Prieto. They help women in some South American countries like Chile, Mexico and Peru. The program had won several prizes recognizing their labour and innovation. Currently up to 12.000 woman in Latin America try to be part of this project.
Grace Hopper Program (New York City)
Fullstack Academy was founded in 2012 by David Yang and Wharton School alumnus Nimit Maru. From its inception in 2013, Fullstack Academy has been working tirelessly to provide students with a quality, engaging, and lasting programming education.
The disproportionately low number of women in the workforce has been a well documented trend over time, but nowhere can this pattern be seen so clearly as in the field of technology.
In January 2016, Fullstack Academy launched the Grace Hopper Program, the first all-women coding bootcamp in New York City, and the first in the country to offer a deferred tuition model (students only pay tuition after securing a job).
Code First Girls (United Kingdom)
Code First: Girls was founded by Alice Bentinck and Matthew Clifford in 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”.
It is a non profit Social Enterprise that works exclusively with women in Britain to develop coding skills. 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. In 2016 Code First: Girls was nominated for a National Diversity Award.
And that’s only six of Adalab’s sisters around the world. If you are a woman who loves technology (or not!) and lives in any place on our planet, you can join us, our community is awesome!
