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Announcements, media appearances and stories from the Girl Geek Academy community.
Girl Geek Academy Reboots Work Experience for Year 10 Girls
Pioneering SheHacks program helps students create their own startup 26th – 30th November, OneRoof, SouthBank Girl Geek Academy has partnered with world-leading technology businesses Deloitte Digital and 99designs – the world’s largest…
Introducing Girl Geeks, The Book Series
Penguin and Girl Geek Academy team up to release world-first fiction series focused on girls in STEM. On the 2nd of July 2019, the dynamic girl gang behind the global powerhouse Girl…
Girl Geek Academy bring their weekend #SheHacks hackathon to Ballarat
We are very excited to host SheHacks again! For the first time, SheHacks will be held in Ballarat, giving women the opportunity to create new technology and friends at the same time.…
Gender Equality Game Jam - Girl Geek Academy @ PAX
We are so excited to be hosting a community space again this year at PAX Australia! This year we will be using our room in the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre to…
Coding Classes for girls and the wonderful women in their life to role model learning in STEM
Girl Geek Academy school holiday workshops will upskill parents and guardians alongside their children to address the wider societal issues of gender imbalance. Girl Geek Academy has partnered with regional women’s health…
Girl Geek Academy tours Experts-in-Residence Shruti Shah and Sydney Thomas by SARAH MORAN
The global girl gang: Girl Geek Academy helping Aussie women to raise VC internationally with Silicon Valley experts Girl Geek Academy to bring international investors Shruti Shah and Sydney Thomas to Australia…
Exciting new workshops are on at ACMI this September!
We’ve got two new workshops happening at ACMI these school holidays – but they aren’t just for kids! We have introduced these short workshops to give you a taste of technology you…
Girl Geek Academy aim to get girls into STEM with the support of NAB’s Cyber Security team
New school holiday pop up program to engage girls in STEM through cybersecurity Australia, 4 April 2018: Australia’s wildly successful Girl Geek Academy is taking its mission to the masses. Following the…
I’m ready to go – how can I accelerate my startup in 2018?
It’s big news to hear that the SBE Accelerator is calling for women creating innovation through tech startups across Australia. Many founders need to learn how to get their startup to succeed…
Girl Geek Academy at TOM: Melbourne
As part of International Day of People with Disability, Girl Geek Academy put together a team of makers to participate in a three day makeathon from Dec 1st – Dec 3rd at…
Meet Our $15,500 General Assembly Scholarship Winner!
General Assembly in partnership with Girl Geek Academy are proud to announce the winner of their second Web Development Immersive Scholarship. The scholarship was established in 2016 in order to help boost…
Girl Geek Academy partners with STEM.I.AM for NAIDOC Week
As part of NAIDOC week, CEO Sarah Moran and Helen Sultana headed to Brisbane to run MissMakesCode with STEM.I.AM.
Girl Geek Academy opens up #SheHacks to corporate Australia
Do you know some amazing women in your workplace, but rarely get the chance to work with them directly? SheHacks is happening July 14-16, and you’re invited to make the most of…
Girl Geek Academy wins the Australian Director’s Guild Innovation Award
CEO Sarah Moran attending this years Australian Director’s Guild to accept the Innovation Award for our work on SheMakesGames! Tonight I felt blessed to accept the Australian Director's Guild @ADGdirectors Innovation Award…
Co-Founder Lisy Kane Named MCV Pacific’s Outstanding Achiever of the Year for 2017
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…
Girl Geek Academy and NAB create partnership
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…
Welcome Tresna Lee to the Girl Geek Academy Team!
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…
Girl Geek Academy receives $1.3 million to build Victoria’s female founder network MEDIA RELEASE
Wanted: 1,000 female Hackers, Hustlers and Hipsters for world 1st SheHacks initiative LaunchVic backs SheHacks Victoria in funding round Australia, 31 January 2017: Australia’sGirl Geek Academy today announced a raise of $1.3…
Co-Founder Lisy Kane is Named Forbes 30 Under 30 for 2016
Girl Geek Academy co-founder and SheMakesGames creator, Lisy Kane is on this Games list for the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30.
Australian Prime Minister helps Girl Geek Academy scale MissMakesCode in 2017
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…
Girl Geek Academy has merch!
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!
Girl Geek Academy careers day – Korowa Girls School at The Dream Factory
If we want to see more girls building startups and pursuing careers in technology, we have to make it an attractive career choice as early in their lives as possible. Today Girl…
Girl Geek Academy podcast – #SheMakes_Games
Welcome to the MVP of the Girl Geek Academy podcast. We captured some of the stories of women in games at our event SheMakesGames, held as part of Melbourne International Games Week.…
Girl Geek Academy Scholarship Winner – Duyen Ho
Congratulations to Duyen Ho – the winner of the inaugural Girl Geek Academy Scholarship! Duyen will complete General Assembly’s Web Development Immersive Scholarship WDI9 from September 26th to December 15th 2016. Duyen…
#MissMakesCode – The world’s first hackathon for young girls ages 5-8!
This school holidays Girl Geek Academy is inviting over 70 young girls to attend the world’s first ever hackathon for girls ages 5-8. Miss Makes Code will be held at Templestowe College…
Miss Makes 3D at Scienceworks
On July 30-31 we launched MissMakes3D – digital fabrication and 3D printing workshops for junior girl geeks! In partnership with Museum Victoria, we ran workshops with 3D Doodlers in the TEST LAB…