Code.org – Great learn to code activities and interviews with technology experts and leaders.
Code Academy – 180 hours of free training. More classes for the professional plans.
Coursera.org – learn programming languages. Courses are free. You have to pay if you want the official certifications that you’ve completed the course.
Lynda.com is now Linkedinlearning – hundreds of technology and coding courses. Often your library will have a license to use these classes–but you’ll need to connect through your library website.
MIT Open Courseware – free courses on programming and technology from MIT’s resources
Girl Scouts Cyber Security badges
Cyberseek.org – find out how many and what types of cyber security jobs are available in your area
Books
Code Girls, Liza Mundy–more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II.
Code Girls https://amzn.to/4aBUvAT
Proving Grounds by Kathy Kleiman The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer–the ENIAC
Janet Abbate. Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing. (2017).
Recoding Gender https://amzn.to/3MLMNfH
She Can STEM: 50 Trailblazing Women in Science from Ancient History to Today – Includes hands-on activities exploring Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
Women Who Launched the Computer Age: Ready-to-Read Level 3 (You Should Meet)
by Laurie Calkhoven (Author), Alyssa Petersen (Illustrator)
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing)
by Mar Hicks
Books on Women in Computing
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race Hardcover, Margot Lee Shetterly –The inspiring story of four African American women who participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes.
The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton — Stories of over 100 Gutsy Women, from past and present, whose grit has changed our world
