Girls Who Code at Loyola

The Center for Textual Studies & Digital Humanities (CTSDH) is proud work with Girls Who Code at our Rogers Prk campus. Loyola's chapter debuted in Fall 2017. The next upcoming session will be held in Spring 2025. Check back to this page for registration info.

Girls Who Code is a national non-profit organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology. Tech jobs are among the fastest growing in the country, yet girls are being left behind. While interest in computer science ebbs over time, the biggest drop-off happens between the ages of 13-17. Girls Who Code began in New York with 20 students; it now has chapters in all fifty states serving over 50,000 young womenAbout: The Loyola chapter offers free, weekly classes in coding to 6th - 12th-grade students. Classes are held in person on Loyola Lakeshore Campus on Saturday mornings from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Sessions are typically held for 10 weeks in the fall and spring semesters. Our students come from schools from across Chicago, from different grades and with different levels of experiences, from beginners to advanced coders. Students are team-taught by undergraduate and graduate students here at Loyola University Chicago, and overseen by a faculty member in the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities. In a semester, students might practice web development, GitHub, wireframing, website design, Python, Arduino robotics, Javascript, and more. We conclude each session with a showcase where students and volunteers present the projects they've created.

 

 

If you are interested in learning more about Girls Who Code at Loyola, please contact Elizabeth Hopwood at ehopwood@luc.edu. Thank you!

Supported by CTSDH and with support from: American Association of University Women; CME Foundation; and Girls Who Code Mentoring Corp.