Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Verizon Supports Immersion Program to Teach Girls to Code
Young girls were told that they could use code to change the world, to find their voices and to dare to be different at a graduation ceremony last week on NJIT's campus that was the culmination of the Girls Who Code summer camp.
“You can change the world because you’ve learned to code,” said NJIT President Joel S. Bloom, who joined N.J. Sen. Cory Booker, Verizon’s chief social corporate responsibility officer and Verizon Foundation president Rose Kirk and several other speakers in commending the young women for their focus on such a critical skill....