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Apple expands its free coding curriculum to schools outside of the US
Apple's free coding curriculum, which launched for high schools and community colleges in May, has been growing in popularity over the last few months. It had six community college systems on board at launch and in August, the company announced that over 30 had worked the curriculum into their course offerings for the 2017-2018 school year. Now, Apple has gone global with its coding instruction and over 20 colleges and universities outside of the US have now adopted the App Development with Swift Curriculum.
The Female Governors' Summit aims to get more girls into tech
Jobs in computer science and engineering aren't just highly lucrative -- they're also crucial for national innovation. With that in mind, Oklahoma's Governor Mary Fallin, Rhode Island's Governor Gina Raimondo and Iowa's Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds are set to meet with Girls Who Code, Facebook and the consulting firm Deloitte today at the first Female Governor's Summit. Their big plan? To try and figure out how to get more girls excited about -- and jumping into -- computer science.
GM and Girls Who Code partner for after-school STEM program
As technology jobs continue to rise in importance, a troubling statistic shows that the number of women in the computing workforce dropped from 37 percent in 1995 to only 24 percent today. That's a staggering drop, and one that the education program Girls Who Code is hoping to reverse. Today automaker GM announced it's giving Girls Who Code a $250,000 grant to help bring after-school STEM clubs to thousands of underserved areas.
