Many people who ge🍸t into programming do so because they want to create games, and thanks to Blizzard, the young ladies who have joined the Summer Immersion Program at the nonprofit Girls ♔Who Code will get to work with people who have made that dream a reality.
Women who work for Blizzard joined 26 10th-to-12th grade students to help show them the ropes of programming as the girls learned HTML, CSS, and JavaScript while making𒆙 a website for a cause that they feel passionate about. These sites included subjects including animal adoption, wildlife protection, mental health, and the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Blizzard employees answered the students' questions and provided feedbac𒆙k for their website designs. They also talked about how their careers worked and discussed mentorship pro🔯grams.
The main goal is to provide𒀰 the students with support as they venture into a traditionally male-dominated industry.
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"As somebody who struggled with feelings of exclusion earlier in my own tech career, I later witnessed how powerful it is to feel like you belong to something,"⭕ said Blizzard senior software engineer Aimee Pi. "Programs like this provide aspiring generations of technologists and leaders with not just knowledge and support, but has also given these girls the community and confidence to get out there and unabashedly pursue jobs in tech."
This is the third year that Blizzard has been involved in the Girls Who Code program, though the COVID-19 pandemic prevented the program from being held in-person, as it had in previous years. I🌼nstead, the two-week Girls Who Code program was held in a virtual classroom environment, with the programmers logging in to help out.
To find out more about the Girls Who 𒈔Code summer program, .
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