​​​​​Soronko Foundation

Accra, Ghana, 2016, April 16​

On the 16th of April,Tech Needs Girls organized the #stylewithcode coding workshop to celebrate Girls in ICT day. Tech Needs Girls is a movement and a mentorship program to get more girls to create technology. Their mission is mentoring girls to lead and innovate through learning to code. They have impacted over 2500 girls in 7 regions in Ghana through mentorship, teaching them to code and internships at software companies. They also have a  large network of over 200 mentors who are women studying Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in the university in Ghana

 This was their biggest and most exciting workshop. The program was organized and held at Impacthub Ghana with support from VLISCO, American Chamber of Commerce, Tigo and Reach For Change. There were 70 mentees, 35 mentors,SAP executives team members and invited guest. The girls were split into teams of 5 with two mentors and one SAP Executive in each group. The girls worked on innovative ideas of using technology to solve counterfeiting of VLISCO Fabric. They also learnt to code and built HTML pages. We had a full house of over 100 participants. They got to be inspired by their amazing mentors and the SAP Executive team.

The girls displayed their creativity and presentation skills by pitching their ideas and explaining their HTML Code. The girls all got certificates and the winning group won VLISCO Fabric.

The winning group of girls wanted to use RFID chips, GPS and Barcode scanning to solve counterfeiting. The mentors from the winning group also won Vlisco Fabric. It is so powerful when women and girls get together to support each other. The girls had no idea who a software developer was or what coding is. They all left as new coders. The Tech Needs Girls movement continues. Next year the first all girls coding and human centered design school will be built for girls in West Africa.

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