{"id":543,"date":"2012-09-25T10:45:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T10:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=543"},"modified":"2012-10-05T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T10:01:19","slug":"why-girls-who-code-own-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Why girls who code own the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_545\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Girl-coders-in-Manchester.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-545\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-545 \" title=\"Girl coders in Manchester\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Girl-coders-in-Manchester-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Girl-coders-in-Manchester-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Girl-coders-in-Manchester.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I code, therefore I am&#8230; young girls getting to grips with HTML in Manchester<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a stated aim within the EU to get more girls interested in science &#8211; but it&#8217;s slow work. In Manchester in the UK they\u2019re taking a grass-roots approach. A group calling themselves the Manchester Girl Geeks are running free work shops and stage talks by famous female scientists. Their latest initiative is computer coding lessons for girls from age 11 &#8211; and I went along to check it out. Here&#8217;s my report for Spectrum on Deutsche Welle Radio:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" data-boourl=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/976470-the-girls-who-code\/embed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/976470-the-girls-who-code\">listen to \u2018The girls who code\u2019 on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"http:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a stated aim within the EU to get more girls interested in science &#8211; but it&#8217;s slow work. In Manchester in the UK they\u2019re taking a grass-roots approach. A group calling themselves the Manchester Girl Geeks are running free work shops and stage talks by famous female scientists. Their latest initiative is computer coding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}