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We’re excited to announce that General Motors (GM) contributed $25,000 to DIY Girls to support our STEM programs for girls. GM is committed to promoting STEM careers for girls and this investment shows the company’s support for girls in Los Angeles. Last year, GM named its first female CEO, Mary Barra, an electrical engineer and great…
Help us win $100K by voting in the LA2050 challenge
We’ve entered the LA2050 challenge and need your vote to win! ‘Making for Good’ is a DIY Girls initiative that implements the design thinking process to empower girls to identify and prototype solutions to issues encountered in their communities. We will expand our ‘Making for Good’ project to investigate air quality using open-source technology and…
The California Endowment Awards Grant to DIY Girls
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…
Interview with a DIY Girl: On Web Design and Creative Coding
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…
DIY Girls Awarded Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam Grant
DIY Girls is proud to announce that, in partnership with San Fernando High School, has been awarded the Lemelson-MIT Grant. We are one of 15 InvenTeams of high school students nationwide that will each receive up to $10,000 in grant funding to solve real-world problems through invention. As part of the Grant, the DIY Girls…
DIY girls Experience Virtual Reality
Last week, DIY girls from our Creative Coding summer camp visited Rabbx Inc., an independent game production company located in Arleta, Los Angeles. Rabbx Inc. specializes in virtual and augmented reality—a topic introduced to our girls as they learned how code can be used to create interactive art experiences. We left Rabbx that day feeling…