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Announcements, media appearances and stories from the Girl Geek Academy community.
Brisbane Times: the curriculum quirk pushing Queensland girls out of tech
Brisbane Times reported on new research showing many Queensland schools let students skip Digital Technologies, even though tech is compulsory until the end of Year 8. Our CEO Sarah Moran spoke to the paper.
Mantel Group on SheHacksSwift
Mantel Group wrote about SheHacksSwift, our three-day program where high school girl geeks build iOS apps in Swift.
Lisy Kane: end the boys’ club mentality
Startup Daily and Women’s Agenda covered our plan to raise $2 million to relaunch Girl Geek Academy with a focus on AI.
AI High launches, and principals are asked to sign up
SmartCompany, The Educator, GamesHub and Women Love Tech covered the launch of AI High, our program teaching high school girls and non-binary students to build with AI.
Sarah Moran on the Women in STEM Ambassador cut
SmartCompany asked our CEO about the federal government closing the Women in STEM Ambassador initiative.
“Fix the system, not the girls”: our Diversity in STEM submission in the news
Women’s Agenda, SmartCompany and The Wire covered our submission to the national Diversity in STEM Review, and our call for action backed by investment.
Sarah Moran in Startup Daily: fund women in STEM now, not after the review
Our CEO told Startup Daily the federal government should commit funding for women in STEM programs in the May Budget, rather than waiting for the Diversity in STEM Review to finish in 2024.
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…
How to Start to Build a Startup
I’ve just got off a call with a marvellous woman who was my deputy principal when I was in primary school. Her and her cofounders are sitting on two great products, and…
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 On Scope TV
Girl Geek Academy was on Scope TV – Season 5 Ep. 33! We’re talking HACKERS, HIPSTERS and HUSTLERS on @ScopeAU! Girl Geek Academy was on Season 5 Episode 33.Catchup link:
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…
Empowering Tiddas in Technology
Hey I’m CC! I am a Program Producer at Girl Geek Academy. I started with Girl Geek Academy in May 2019. On Thursday 16th August, I got to present at Google in…
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…
Rochedale State High School girls get geeky at AI and Machine Learning Workshop
This article was written by Priya Pereira, an amazing Girl Geek and student from Rochedale High School who organised this workshop for her peers. Go Priya! --- On Friday, 19 October 2018,…
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…
Navigating #Startupland (Pausefest 2018)
Girl Geek Academy is at PauseFest 2018 – Australasia’s premier creative, tech and business event. We’ll be sharing our insights & takeaways here, but you can also follow along on Twitter! Navigating…
Building A Tech Startup With No Technical Founders – How We Did It (PauseFest 2018)
Girl Geek Academy is at PauseFest 2018 – Australasia’s premier creative, tech and business event. We’ll be sharing our insights & takeaways here, but you can also follow along on Twitter! Building…
New School Rules – Driving Innovation in Education (PauseFest 2018)
Girl Geek Academy is at PauseFest 2018 – Australasia’s premier creative, tech and business event. We’ll be sharing our insights & takeaways here, but you can also follow along on Twitter! New…
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…
Top Ten Mistakes of Entrepreneurs with Guy Kawasaki (PauseFest 2018)
Girl Geek Academy is at PauseFest 2018 – Australasia’s premier creative, tech and business event. We’ll be sharing our insights & takeaways here, but you can also follow along on Twitter! Top…
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…
Our CEO speaks at Web Summit in Portugal on “Hacking the gender divide in investing and company leadership”
Next47’s Susana Quintana-Plaza, Crunchbase’s Alexandra Mack, Girl Geek Academy’s Sarah Moran & People Matters Media’s Ester Martinez: Tech is male-dominated. It shouldn’t be. Let’s hear from the people hacking the gender imbalance.
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.
CEO Sarah Moran and Helen Sultana cast in Common Sense!
Our own Sarah Moran and Helen Sultana have been cast in Common Sense! Tune in! Computer coding at six years old?! Now that takes more than just some good old fashioned common…
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…
#SheHacksVIC Kicks Off in Warragul!
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! ☕😄💻👩…
CEO Sarah Moran talks with LaunchVIC CEO Dr. Kate Cornick
Girl Geek Academy CEO Sarah Moran talks with CEO Dr. Kate Cornick about why SheHacks is important for women across Victoria. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgirlgeekacademy%2Fvideos%2F781124045383954%2F&showtext=0&width=560
ABC Splash talks with CEO Sarah Moran
ABC Splash’s IWD School Hacks for Parents live conversation with Girl Geek Academy’s Sarah Moran.
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…
Hackolades
SheHacks 2016 Winner – Hackolades Hackolades is a safe space to share and celebrate great work. Users post snippets of cool code, images, videos or animations and then receive likes and comments…
Learnt
SheHacks 2016 – Learnt One-on-one connections based on what I want to learn and teach. “Perfect for onboarding in our fast-paced and often transient offices where the personal relationships are not built…
She Hacks 2016 full photo gallery
At SheHacks 2016, we wanted to capture the experience of our hackers, hipsters and hustlers. We think our events are fun (it’s one of our core values), and we like to make…
#SheHacks 2016 – Sprout
Planting the seed of charitable behaviour Sprout takes the family pocket money and invests it in charitable initiatives. See weekly pocket money and decide how much to donate. Choose charity based on…
#SheHacks 2016 – WomenWelcomeWomen
This idea came from our frustration that we cannot do anything about Australian government’s policy towards refugees combined with our own experiences as immigrants to Australia. We have all struggled to settle…
#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…
#SheHacks 2016 video (by Lunamik)
This is a video snapshot of SheHacks 2016, held at General Assembly on July 22. This video was made possible with the amazing team from Lunamik’s support. We fell in love with…
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…
Why we need women-only tech events
I’ve been working in tech for around 4-5 years. About 2.5 years ago I started teaching myself to build iPhone apps in Objective-C. As someone new to development, I started looking at…
She Hacks 2016 profile photos
At SheHacks 2016, we set up a photo studio to take portraits of our hackers, hipsters and hustlers. We firmly believe in raising the profile of women in our industry, and we…
#SheHacks 2016 – SheCounts
A women’s life doesn’t stop after children and our goal is to skill women who wish to return to the tech world and feel they may be out of touch with the…
Sticks and Stones
SheHacks Winner 2016 – Most Creative Sticks & Stones is a web app aimed at educating children about the impact of their language. Illustrated extra-terrestrial characters accompany users through scenarios in which…