Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) & Girls In Tech Singapore jointly present, "Mom can code, I can too!"

5/18/2018

Asia & pacific, Singapore, Singapore

On 19 May 2018, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) will be partnering Girls in Tech Singapore (GITSG) to celebrate Mother’s Day by running an event called "Mom can code, I can too!" This is the third year that GITSG is running the event, in conjunction with Mother's Day. This year, GITSG is partnering with IMDA to bring more hands-on interactive and fun coding to the public under IMDA's Digital Maker Programme.

The objective of this programme is to encourage more girls to pick up and fall in love with programming from a young age, and encourage this passion to endure though adulthood such that they will not be easily deterred in pursuing tech-related careers later in life. Mothers are a girls' first female role models and we want to exemplify that by letting moms lead their daughters by example in this coding workshop that would require them to code and make a musical instrument at the same time. At the end of this programme, the mother-daughter pair can look forward to bringing home their own e-ukulele.