Google teams up with Zac Posen to inspire young girls to code
Please excuse my ignorance when it comes to high fashion, but I do have friends who are into that kind of stuff and when I asked them about Zac Posen, they knew exactly who I was asking about. As a wild guess, most of us tech guys don’t pay attention to fashion, but Google’s Made with Code and Zac Posen know that young girls do love to design, and teamed up to inspire young girls to code through a dress designed using Computer Science.
New York’s Fashion Week started off yesterday, where the world’s elite designers come together to show off their latest work. Zac Posen, who sells a wide range of dresses through Neiman Marcus(and other stores) in prices ranging from $950 up to $9990, used coded designs from teen girls to design a dress to debut as his grand finale of his show. He did this in hopes of inspiring young girls who have an interest in fashion to see what code can help them create.
Made with Code started with the mission of inspiring girls to try coding and to see it as a means to pursue their dream careers—regardless of what field those careers are in. For this project, girls from organizations like Black Girls Code, the Flatiron School, Girls Who Code and Lower East Side Girls Club, coded designs for an LED dress using an introductory coding project online.
When the dress went down the runway, it displayed the girls’ patterns in 500 LED lights, using a micro controller specially tuned to match Zac’s Spring Summer 2016 runway collection. 50 girls got seats at the show to see their creations go down the runway.
In an industry where diversity is severely lacking, we have to be proactive if we want to see changes. Less than 1% of girls study Computer Science. Made with Code hopes to change that statistic and we should all help make that change too so these young girls can contribute their voices to the field of technology. Check out Made with Code and educate yourself on the facts so you can help do your part.
Source – Google
Link to designing your own LED dress.
Learn to code through code.org.
In the United States, 74% of girls express interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) in middle school.
By high school, only .3% girls plan to major in Computer Science
Computer Science jobs will be the highest-paying sectors over the next decade, paying almost 15k more than average
Encouragement from adults and peers is the #1 contributor to a girl’s decision to pursue Computer Science
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