During the 2016 school year, some changes took place. One of the things added was “Girls Who Code Club”, a club directed by Mrs. Gabrielle. It started in December, and has at least eleven girls in it.

“The Girls Who Code club is a place where girls can feel comfortable gaining experience coding while collaborating on a community project,” said Mrs. Gabrielle

This club was started to get girls interested into programing. According to www.GirlsWhoCode.org, around 6-12 years old, 66% of girls are interested into computer programing. As the years passed, and girls around 13-17 years old girls are interested by the time they get to high school. It is hard to believe the percentage drop, then wait until they reach towards freshman college students. Only four percent actually go towards trying to get a degree in computer programing.  Now days eighteen percent of girls, actually get in computer in general but in 1984, it was thirty-six percent. In reality no one would have thought that it would be this low, specially with the high amounts of technology jobs available or will be in the future.

“Fast forward thirty years and the gender gap has actually been getting worse”,  said Mrs. Gabrielle.

When the original Girls Who Code club started, there were only twenty girls. Nowadays, there are 10,000 girls from forty-two states. The ongoing growth, more girls are interested into going into computer programming majors. Including with their summer immersion program which helps girls get exposure to tech jobs and such. Which goes on with them and makes their alumni who make apps. These apps somehow help the community in a certain way.

“It is believed that there will be 1.4 million jobs available in computing related fields, by 2020 – but women will only fill just 3% of those jobs,” said Mrs. Gabrielle.

There are sixty top companies who pledge to hire Girl Who Code Alumni, including Facebook, Adobe, Yahoo, Dell, Cover Girl, Microsoft, and Chanel, slowly closing the gap, between genders in technology.  This is a huge uphill progress, seeing as before they were barely any girls. They encourage girls to at least get into it for a hobby, even if not for a career. This could help those girls who probably don’t know what they want to be.