A lot of our youth are experiencing the road map of our programs. For example, we have a young woman named Chloe. She entered our road map through being a volunteer for the program girls learning code. Girls learning code is for 9- to 12-year-olds. She signed up to be a mentor and knew nothing about code at all. She just started mentoring and being there as a support system for this young girl. She then graduated to become part of teens learning code. She was actually part of the design process for creating what teens learning code is, which is for high school girls. She went from being a mentor and knowing nothing about code, moving to teens learning code, and continuing to be a mentor for young girls. She has now graduated to become part of the ladies learning code community as she is in her later years of high school. She has been applying to computer science at post-secondary institutions.
That is a story we hear time and time again from many girls within our program. They enter our pipeline having no understanding of code or computational thinking or any areas of STEM, and then they make specific decisions with regard to their professional careers to continue down that path.