What would the internet look like if there were more women building it?
Girl Geek Academy is teaching one million women
to learn technology by 2025. Join us!
Tech has a pipeline problem.
Let’s talk about the holes in the pipe.
By the age of 6, children classify jobs as male and female.
By the age of 8, they are limiting aspirations
By 13 they rule out careers that don’t fit with gender stereotypes.
And 60% of girls aspire to stereotypically ‘female’ jobs by the ages of 16-17.
So, what can we do about it?
Work with us to change the lives of young girls right now.
From ages 5 and up
We can help you support young girls in primary schools, libraries and workplaces to inspire them at a crucial time in their lives. We build corporate education programs and teacher training for schools and libraries for young girls ages 5-8.
Upper primary school
By upper primary school, girls want to build with technology. We create programs that teach technical skills to young girls ages 9-12 to make the most of their curiosity and passion.
Work experience in high school
We can all picture a scientist or a hairdresser at work. But what does a technologist at work look like? We work with corporates to build on-site work experience programs and in-school career planning programs to inspire young women in Grades 9 and 10 to choose technology electives in Grade 11 and 12.
Growing university networks
We work with Australian universities and major corporates to build clubs and societies for women in STEM. We also specialise in delivering hackathons, game jams and work placements at companies in technology and games.
We also work to achieve gender equality by supporting women in industry to succeed and to lead.
Early-career industry support
For early career practitioners we focus on networking, career planning and mentoring to ensure we retain women in industry in a sustainable way. We also run career incubators for women in various industries.
Mid career development
For mid-career practitioners we support women to be bold and raise their profile, coach them on closing the gender pay gap and develop their ability to role model the next generation.
More women in senior executive leadership roles
Increasing the women building their own tech company
Let’s work together to increase the number of women and girls in tech, games, making, robotics, 3D printing, aviation, drones and space.
#SheHacks is back!
#SheHacks is the longest-running hackathon series in the world for women and non-binary folk! You will make new friends and build a startup together in a weekend. You will meet people who may become your cofounders. You will be in a room full of people with the right skills to build a company, as we bring together some of the best hackers, hustlers and hipsters from across Victoria.You don’t have to be technical, but you do have to want to be awesome.
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