{"id":11582,"date":"2014-06-19T13:31:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T17:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/?p=11582"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:41:15","slug":"made-with-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/made-with-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Power: Webmaker joins Google&#039;s &quot;Made with Code&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madewithcode.com\/resources\/E3A76E0E11B6C45878723BA6CA0044FA.cache.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>We&#8217;re excited to participate in\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Google&#8217;s<\/strong> new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/madewithcode.com\" target=\"_blank\">Made with Code<\/a> initiative! The goal: inspire millions of girls to experience the power of code through creativity and making.<br \/>\n<strong>Made with Code is all about women and girls aged 13 &#8211; 18 connecting code to their own interests <\/strong>&#8212; from\u00a0making music and fashion to creating apps that serve their local communities.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11583\" src=\"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-19-at-12.12.21-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-06-19 at 12.12.21 PM\" width=\"484\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Helping girls learn HTML and web literacy<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Mozilla Webmaker is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madewithcode.com\/community\" target=\"_blank\">lead contributor<\/a> to Made With Code<\/strong>. To celebrate, we created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madewithcode.com\/resources\" target=\"_blank\">three new projects<\/a> that make it easier for first-timers to dig into HTML, the language that makes up the web.<br \/>\n<strong>New tutorials walk users through each step<\/strong>, making it self-directed and easy to make your first web page, a movie poster or &#8220;meme&#8221; using a bit of HTML and CSS. <strong>For many girls, this will be their first introduction to code<\/strong> &#8212; and an initial step towards learning about the mechanics, culture and citizenship of the web.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3878\/14336823841_8c722bdb91.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Spreading web skills across the globe<\/h2>\n<p><strong>There&#8217;s more girl coding power coming in this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/party.webmaker.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maker Party<\/a>, Mozilla&#8217;s global campaign to teach and learn the web this summer<\/strong>.\u00a0 Exceptional <a href=\"http:\/\/party.webmaker.org\/partners\" target=\"_blank\">partners<\/a> are joining to spread web literacy, coding skills and more to girls around the globe, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tech-girls.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tech-Girls<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; based in Charlottesville, VA and created by Webmaker mentor <strong>Kim Wilkens<\/strong>, aka TechKim, Tech-Girls is about engaging girls in computing through sparking interest, building confidence, and nurturing community. Kim has created <a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.org\/user\/techkim\/teaching-resources\" target=\"_blank\">tons of resources<\/a> for other educators and mentors to share these skills.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/geekgirlscarrots.pl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Geek Girls Carrots<\/a> &#8212;<\/strong> based in Poland, Berlin and Seattle, they host regular meet-ups and workshops to bring girls together with mentors to develop and up-level their coding skills.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/learninglabs.org\/members\/girls-learning-code\/\" target=\"_blank\">Girls Learning Code<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; based in Toronto, they host successful workshops and camps that are &#8220;less about &#8216;code&#8217; and more about changing the world \u2013 through teamwork, creativity, and, of course, technology.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-xpf1\/t1.0-9\/10322777_765134233505770_1477091911030369736_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"312\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geek Girls Carrots<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Get Involved<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/events.webmaker.org\/#!\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Add your own events to Maker Party<\/strong>.<\/a> Add your girl-focused or other technology events and workshops to our global calendar.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/party.webmaker.org\/partners\" target=\"_blank\"> Sign up as a Maker Party partner<\/a><\/strong>. It&#8217;s a big tent &#8212; all are welcome!<\/li>\n<li><strong> Try out our new Made with Code projects<\/strong>.<a href=\"http:\/\/webmaker.org\/madewithcode-meme\" target=\"_blank\"> Make a meme<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.org\/madewithcode-poster\">movie poster<\/a> or simple <a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.org\/madewithcode-firstwebpage\">web page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/madewithcode.com\" target=\"_blank\"> Learn more about Made with Code. <\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to participate in\u00a0Google&#8217;s new\u00a0Made with Code initiative! The goal: inspire millions of girls to experience the power of code through creativity and making. Made with Code is all about women and girls aged 13 &#8211; 18 connecting code &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/made-with-code\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378228],"tags":[330394,27948],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}