The first of its kind in Uganda, WITU is excited to launch its Code Girls movement that is aimed at teaching young girls how to be creative, imagine, build and share exciting applications that they will create from the training. These applications will include; Mobile, web, desktop applications and robotics . This applies to both girls in secondary schools and universities in Uganda.
During the Code Girls trainings, the girls will be trained in;
>>> Career guidance >>> Programing using languages like Ruby on Rails, Django, Python, PHP among others >>> Mobile Application Developing on the Android Platform, Microsoft Platform, OS Platform >>> Web design and Development in using Html, Java, Javascript, CSS >>>Content Management Systems >>> Networking and security
The Goal of this exciting journey we are embarking on is;
To bring out creativity, educate and above all bring more girls to fall in love with science and Technology
After months of working on this we are excited to start this movement, which will run by-weekly in a either a primary or secondary school throughout the academic year, and while the girls are on holiday, they will have an opportunity to come visit and also work on their projects at Uganda’s first Tech Hub, Hive Colab