"Girls Gone Web" Increasing the Number of Girls Who Code

Vancouver, BC, March 17, 2015 (Newswire.com) - “Girls Gone Web” is the brainchild of Vancouver entrepreneur and mom of three (including a daughter who learned to code at the age of about twelve) Debbie Burgin, who has taken it upon herself to help teach women and young girls ages 10 to 17, how to code, with four locations launching in BC in May 2015.

The idea behind this program is to empower women and young girls, by giving them what Debbie calls “the Gift of Code”. According to Burgin, “having the ability to code is almost like having some kind of ‘super power’, it has a tendency to enhance one’s creative ability, and allow for greater problem solving skills. Computer programming is a skill that comes in handy in almost any field you can imagine and those who have the ability to code are in huge demand”.

"The goal of Girls Gone Web is to get women and girls to use what we like to call 'the power of code' to create new opportunities for themselves, whether that's landing a sweet gig at a major tech company, or starting one of their own."

Debbie Burgin, President

Burgin says, “We’re not just teaching them to code. My fear is that girls shy away from something like computer programming because they’re more interested in something like fashion, and won’t put the two together to see how having the ability to code, could actually give them a ‘foot in the fashion industry door’. The goal here is to get women and girls to use what I like to call ‘the power of code’ to create new opportunities for themselves, whether that’s landing a sweet gig at a major tech company, or starting one of their own.”

Girls Gone Web classes will begin in four BC cities (Vancouver, Coquitlam, Surrey and Langley) in May, 2015, with a planned expansion to seven locations in BC by October 2015.