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September 2021
Hacking for Endangered Species
3 hour virtual coding program for girls and boys (4-8th grade) with Code.org’s App Lab and Zoom.There are about 2 million different species on Earth. The data suggests the growing number of endangered species by year is nothing to scoff at. It shows that between 0.01–0.1% of all species are lost annually — that's about 200 to 2,000 extinctions every year.Join with Random Hacks of Kindness Junior and Friends of Animals to design and create apps addressing the rise of…
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Girls Who Code Club with Woodbury Public Library
Learn to code! Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in technology and to change the image of what a programmer looks like and does. Girls in grades 5 -12 can join the club, facilitated by Patrice Gans. Girls Who Code will meet virtually on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month. Girls Who Code is a free program and open to all interested girls in grades 5 & up. .Join our sisterhood of…
Find out more »Girls Who Code Club with Woodbury Public Library
Learn to code! Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in technology and to change the image of what a programmer looks like and does. Girls in grades 5 -12 can join the club, facilitated by Patrice Gans. Girls Who Code will meet virtually on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month. Girls Who Code is a free program and open to all interested girls in grades 5 & up. .Join our sisterhood of…
Find out more »Hacking for Life Below Water
3 hour virtual coding program for girls and boys (4-8th grade) with Code.org’s App Lab and Zoom.More plastic than fish. Eight million metric tons: That's how much plastic we dump into the oceans each year. That's about 17.6 billion pounds — or the equivalent of nearly 57,000 blue whales — every single year. By 2050, ocean plastic will outweigh all of the ocean's fish.Join Random Hacks of Kindness Junior to design and create apps that address the impact of plastic…
Find out more »November 2021
Hacking for Mobility with Go Baby Go
3 hour virtual coding program for girls and boys (4-8th grade) with Code.org’s App Lab and Zoom.Go Baby Go was founded by Professor Cole Galloway as part of a research project at the University of Delaware.The modified toy cars give children with mobility disabilities a chance to play and socialize with their peers more easily. Past research has shown that independent mobility is linked to cognitive, social, motor, language and other developmental benefits in young children. Being pushed in a…
Find out more »December 2021
Hacking for Pediatric Cancer
3 hour virtual coding program for girls and boys (4-8th grade) with Code.org’s App Lab and Zoom.Childhood cancer happens everywhere. In 2018, an estimated 15,590 children were diagnosed with cancer in the United States. Globally, it is estimated that 300,000+ new cases of cancer affect children each year; however, this number may be vastly underestimated due to large numbers of undiagnosed cases.Join Random Hacks of Kindness Junior and Mairead Finn, whose youngest daughter, Vivienne, died from Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma…
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