Our best moments via @DIYGirls Top Tweets We’ve created our very own DIY annual report using tweets from the past year. We selected 12 of our top retweeted and liked tweets. From photos of our girls in action, to field trips, to live tweets during the Superbowl these tweets capture the essence of our work and activities…
Girls will design interactive health exhibits with support from The California Endowment We’re excited to announce that The California Endowment has awarded a grant to us! The grant will be used to train participants from our after school program for 5th grade girls in the Pacoima community of Los Angeles to design and build interactive games…
Last week, we completed Week 7 of our 10-week Web Design and Creative Coding Program for middle school girls at Vaughn Next Century Learning Center. It’s the beginning of coding programs that we plan to offer in 2016 for middle school girls. We are teaching HTML and CSS within the context of developing a mobile…
We’re thrilled to announce that DIY Girls has been selected as an Lemelson-MIT Excite Award winner and finalist for a 2016-2017 InvenTeam grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program. As a finalist, DIY Girls will have the opportunity to receive an InvenTeams Grant to be awarded in the Fall. Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams™ are comprised of high school students,…
Hi, I’m Sylvia, Director of Curriculum for DIY Girls. I’m also a graduate student studying library and information science. In order to graduate, I have to complete a portfolio that proves my competency in the field. In doing so, I ran into this essay I wrote about The Bernstain Bears. Listen to the book here. On…
Two Bit Circus brought our girls into their workshop this October and reminded us all that technology really can be the stuff of cartoonish adventure. DIY Girls from GALS, the Girls Athletic Leadership Schools, spent a day as game beta testers for Two Bit Circus, an organization that’s always “blurring the lines between technology and…