Ashland High School's Girls Who Code Club

Girls Who Code is a national movement that includes over 90,000 girls across the country. It's goal is to promote a safe and supportive environment where girls can learn how to code. Each chapter chooses a Community Impact project and creates projects that bring attention to that cause. This year, our chapter here at Ashland High School decided to bring attention to the cause "Save the Whales"

Getting Started

At the start of the year, we decided to code with the purpose of "saving the whales." Personally, I feel that having this cause in mind motivates me to learn how to code. It definitely seems more purposeful.

In order to fund our club for the year, we pitched our ideas for this year to the Bose STEM Seed Fund. After meeting with them, they generously gave us a grant to support our coding for this year. Thank you, Bose!

Progress 

So far this year, we have been working on a main website where we can show all our mini projects and going through the coding tutorials that GWC provides in order to learn how to code. Right now we are trying to make a quiz game to test people whale knowledge and provide them with surprising statistics. We are also trying to make a game to show how pollution affects the whale population. We would like to present accurate statistics and facts for our website, so we have also been extensively researching whale facts. 

Goals

We look forward to completing these goals by the end of the year:

1. Complete and publish the central website.
2. Complete our mini projects, including a quiz and a game.
3. Find a specific non-profit to support

We are very excited to continue our GWC journey and are thankful to Girls Who Code for giving us this opportunity.