As part of Google’s Made With Code initiative, a new documentary called CODEGIRL by Lesley Chilcott (An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for Superman) will be streaming on YouTube for free until November 5th. According to Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, the film “follows the story of 5,000 girls from 60 countries as they compete in a global entrepreneurship and coding competition by Technovation. The girls have three months to develop an app that attempts to solve a problem in their local community. In the film, they size up their competition, interact with teachers and local mentors, learn to code, and pitch their ideas all in hopes of winning $10,000 in funding and support.”
Initiatives like this are meant to encourage young girls and women to get into tech field. If you want to support the film, you can do so by sharing it with the hashtag #Rallyforcodegirl. You can watch it from the video embedded above.
Source: Google Via: TechCrunch