Coding Camp with AT&T and Bold Idea
Summer is filled with lots of chances to attend camps all over the place.
This summer AT&T asked if they could host some Girl Scouts for a few days at their Plano, TX offices and teach young ladies about how to do computer coding.
My mother asked me 'Hey, "M" do you want to go to this Coding Camp and learn all about computer coding?' I was like ya, sure, sounds like fun I have never done that before. Plus I was thinking it might be fun, three days without my little brother, sounds good to me.
Day 1 - I was very excited to arrive at Coding Camp. "E" and I were surprised to find out that we had change into special shirts that we had to wear all week. (Hope mom likes doing laundry every night) We had a lot to get done in three days, so we started right away, with splitting into 6 groups of ladies that would each be working in their every own website with the help of two mentors for each group. We learned a lot that day about HTML Coding and how it works and how to plug it in. We also learned a little about CSS, which is the styling program.
Day 2 - We arrived and went right to our groups to work on our websites. I was in a group that was making a website to educate people about bullies. By the end of the day our website was mostly complete. I also had made three new friends. Our mentors were a lot of help and Bold Idea sent us home with links to our websites so we could touch up our websites before our big presentation on Day 3. I went home that evening and spend hours on the computer touching up my section of the website.
Day 3 - Today was the day our groups arrived and we presented our websites to all the other groups and some special guests. The Mayor and female engineers were their to hear all about our work in the last three days and to speak with us to let us all know that even though we are young ladies we CAN DO ANYTHING! After all the presentations were done we had a tour of the building and then even tough it was pouring outside we were given Popsicles and visited in the lobby while waiting for our transportation home.
I overall had fun and learned a lot. I want to thank AT&T and Bold Idea for putting on the summer Coding Camp for Girl Scouts to attend. I hear that next summer they are planning Geek For Good being even more advanced and I can't wait to attend!
-"M"
