KEEP
GIRL
GEEKS
IN
Women and girls shape the technology that shapes their lives
Girls who love tech still get pushed out of it. We keep them in, and give women and girls the power to build, question and govern technology.
Building is not scrolling.
For governments, corporates and schools
For girl geeks aged 5 and up
As seen on The Project — Network Ten
The holes in the pipe
Tech has a pipeline problem
The push-out starts early, long before anyone picks a career.
By age 6
Children classify jobs as male and female.
By age 8
They are limiting aspirations.
By 13
They rule out careers that don’t fit with gender stereotypes.
By 16–17
Around 60% of girls aspire to stereotypically “female” jobs.
What would the internet look like if there were more women and girls building it?
What we do
So how do we plug the holes?
We show up at the moments girls get pushed out: subject choice, school to study, and study to first job.
Start early
Coding confidence while curiosity is wide open, often learning alongside mums and aunties.
MissMakesCodeStay in at school
Subject choice is where many girls drop digital tech. Real builds, real mentors and a crew of girl geeks help them stay.
SheHacksSwiftStay and lead
Hackathons, career incubators and safer workplaces keep women and non-binary folk in tech, from first job to leadership.
SheHacks
Get ya geek on
Our programs
Every program ends with something she made: an app, a game, a startup, and a crew of friends who get it.
- MissMakesCodeCoding confidence for girls 5–8, learning alongside mums and aunties.Let’s go →
- AI HighWeekly online classes and a community for high school girls who love tech.Let’s go →
- SheHacksThe world’s longest-running hackathon series for women and non-binary folk.Let’s go →
- SheHacksSwiftHigh school girl geeks build real apps in Swift.Let’s go →
- SheMakesGamesGames careers, game jams and Play Party energy.Let’s go →
- SheMakesMaking, 3D printing, wearables — Australia’s first all-women makerfest format.Let’s go →
- SheFliesDrones, space and aviation — more women in the sky.Let’s go →
Bring any program to your school or workplace, as a workshop, a weekend, a week or an ongoing community.See formats →
FIX THE
FIX THE SYSTEM,NOT THE GIRLS
Gender equity in tech isn’t going backwards for lack of reviews. It’s going backwards for lack ofinvestment in what already works.
We surveyed 302 women, men and non-binary people in tech for the national Diversity in STEM Review. In March 2025 the government said it would accept all 11 of the review’s recommendations. Its statement eight months later had no national strategy and no advisory council.
Girl Geeks say: Enough talk. Time for action backed by investment.
READ THE REPORT!
In the news
Tech is compulsory. But some schools are neglecting it. Is yours?
Under the Australian Curriculum, tech is compulsory until the end of Year 8. But a new study of 22 Queensland schools found nearly half let students skip Digital Technologies entirely.
“The lack of consistency means that they’re not exposed to it enough to want to get good at it.”
Fiction that puts girl geeks centre stage
Girl Geeks books
Hack, code, game, design and make with this girl gang! Developed by Penguin Random House in partnership with Girl Geek Academy.
30,000+ copies sold in Australia. Belonging starts with stories they can see themselves in.
Work with us
Let’s work together
Girls and women don’t simply leave tech. They get pushed out. Here’s how you can help keep them in.
Governments
Stop funding reviews. Fund what works.
Enough talk. Act on the Diversity in STEM Review, and back it with investment in what already works.
- Multi-year funding for women-led programs
- A national action plan with real targets
- Diversity conditions on grants and procurement
Corporates
Keep your women in tech. They’ll help keep the next generation in.
The push-out doesn’t stop at school. Women leave tech at every career stage, and the women who stay usually want to stop it happening to the girls coming after them. We build programs that do both.
- Retain and grow your women, from early career through to executive leadership
- Give your people a way to bring girls through, like mentoring at SheHacksSwift, hosting work experience or running MissMakesCode for their daughters
- Sponsor programs at the moments girls get pushed out, such as AI High
Schools
Keep her in the class.
- Run digital tech classes even when only a few girls enrol
- Bring MissMakesCode or AI High to your students
- Check your timetable teaches tech to every student until the end of Year 8, as the curriculum requires
Parents and women in tech
Be the reason she stays.
- Sign her up for SheHacksSwift, in Sydney in January 2027
- Mentor or speak at a program
- Check her school teaches tech until the end of Year 8, as the curriculum requires
See it working:
