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For 2017, Lisy Kane was awarded the MCV Pacific 2017 Outstanding Achiever of the Year. While she was not able to attend the inaugural event, CEO Sarah Moran was able to accept the award on her behalf. Congratulations to all the other incredible women making a different in the Australia game development industry. .@lisyk may be in the U.K., but… Continue Reading

NAB has recruited their first “girl geek in residence” in the form of Girl Geek Academy CEO Sarah Moran. This partnership is to part of a NAB initiative to encourage more women to take on technology roles. Sarah will be working on implementing Girl Geek Academy founded events like #SheHacks and #SheMakes within the NAB workforce. Continue Reading

#SheHacksVic boot camps kick off in Warrugul. Check out WIN News’ feature of this incredible event! Fabulous founders Sarah & Amanda of @GirlGeekAcademy starting w intros for the #Warragul #SheHacks bootcamp! ☕😄💻👩 pic.twitter.com/tvKgPe8GhQ — GippsTech (@GippsTech) March 31, 2017 awesome ladies at the reg table for @GirlGeekAcademy #hackathon bootcamp in warragul! fantastic energy this morning! Co-founder Lisy Kane receives Film… Continue Reading

Girl Geek Academy CEO Sarah Moran talks with CEO Dr. Kate Cornick about why #SheHacks is important for women across Victoria. https://web.archive.org/web/20200928211222if_/https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgirlgeekacademy%2Fvideos%2F781124045383954%2F&show_text=0&width=560 Continue Reading

We are so excited to welcome Tresna Lee to the Girl Geek Academy team! Tresna will be developing our partner relationships as well as creating incredible experiences for women and girls at our events in 2017. If you’re yet to experience one of her events, then keep your eyes peeled and be sure to score a ticket when we announce… Continue Reading

Girl Geek Academy co-founder and #SheMakesGames creator, Lisy Kane is on this Games list for the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30. Continue Reading

We are over the moon we have received funding from the Federal Government to scale MissMakesCode, our hackathon for young girls aged 5-8, in schools across Australia in 2017. We ran a pilot for #MissMakesCode in September and now we’re taking it to teachers Australia-wide to bring the delight of building things on the internet to SO MANY MORE young girls.… Continue Reading

Our co-founder Amanda Watts has created amazing Girl Geek merch for us! So excited to follow our dreams in Girl Geek Academy doona covers! Continue Reading