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Encouraging Girls to Code
Michael Dam
According to Parentology, nonprofit Computing Minds was founded by 16 year old Juliette Palacios who wanted to encourage girls to pursue coding.
There’s a wide disparity when it comes to females versus males in the world of computer coding: 8% of current computer developers are women and 92% are male. Statistics like these are not lost on 16-year-old Juliette Palacios, who founded the nonprofit Computing Minds, which aims to inspire and educate girls in computer science careers.
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