Code Like A Girl

Slides from a talk I presented to 100+ Grade 7 & 8 female students at Grand River Collegiate, the high school I attended, on Women in Technology and STEM participation.

Transcript

1. HOW TO: CODE LIKE A GIRL SEAN YO CO-EDITOR – CODELIKEAGIRL.IO
2. HI! I’M SEAN. • I work in technology • I got my first computer in 1988 • I built my first web page in 1996 • I got my first email address in 1998 • I am diversity advocate and champion • I’m especially interested in digital accessibility and women in technology • I teach Web Foundations at Conestoga • I’ve travelled to Kathmandu and Indonesia to train web development to not for profits • I have co-founded Hackademy and Hive Waterloo Region • I receive 40 under 40 for my work in building online communities • I was in Ms. Watters’ wedding party and she’s the godmother of my daughters
3. WHY AM I HERE? • I’m also the co-editor of Code Like A Girl • We are a publication on Medium.com • Almost 19k subscribers and now in the Medium top 100 • We celebrate the changing perceptions of women in technology • I recently wrote an article “Will you Help Us Build Our Community” • I went to Grand River – GO RENS
5. WHY AM I HERE?
6. LIKE A GIRL?
8. THE BRAVE NEW DIGITAL WORLD • Mitchell Baker, Chair of Mozilla Foundation • Elegant Consumers • Joyful Creator
10. STEM CLIFF
11. STEM CLIFF
12. STEM CLIFF
13. STEM CLIFF
14. MOLLY HOLZSHLAG • This is my friend Molly • Fairy Godmother of the Web • Champion of the Open Web • Written 35+ books on the web • Invited Expert @ W3C • Worked with Microsoft, AOL, eBay, BBC and many more
16. THE WORLD NEEDS MOLLY
17. CARMEN ZANNIER • This is my friend Carmen • PHd in CompSci – Agile Software Development • Dev Manager at a global software company • Specializes in Data & Analytics • Oh – and she climbs mountains
20. THE WORLD NEEDS CARMEN
22. THE WORLD NEEDS YOU
23. THE WORLD NEEDS YOU
24. THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR GENIUS
25. THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR BRILLIANCE
26. THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR AWESOME
27. YOU MATTER
28. •This is my friend Angela Maiers •#YouMatter Campaign •Choose2Matter.com
29. UNLESS YOU MULTIPLY YOURSELF BY THE SPEED LIGHT SQUARED…THEN YOU ENERGY
30. WHEN YOU HEAR SOMETHING DIFFERENT…REMEMBER YOU MATTER
31. ONLY ONE IN THE ROOM
32. MYSELF AND ALL THE OTHER GIRLS IN MY PHYSICS DEGREE COURSE THROWING OUR HATS IN THE AIR FOR OUR GRADUATION
34. THINGS AREN’T ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM
38. YOU CAN SAY YES TO YOURSELF AND OPPORTUNITIES
39. YOU ARE IN CHARGE OF YOU
41. SO…HOW DO YOU CODE LIKE A GIRL? THE SAME WAY YOU DO EVERYTHING ELSE
42. SO…HOW DO YOU CODE LIKE A GIRL? •https://codelikeagirl.io/
43. SO…HOW DO YOU CODE LIKE A GIRL? http://hivewr.ca/programs-and-events/hackergrrlz/
44. SO…HOW DO YOU CODE LIKE A GIRL? •http://hivewr.ca/
45. LET’S KEEP TALKING! Seanyo.ca @seanyo me@seanyo.ca I post photos of food on instagram. I am not on snapchat.