Code Girls United awarded grant
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KALISPELL — Code Girls United has been chosen as winners of a $100,000 grant in the MIT Solve Gender Equity in STEM Challenge. This highly competitive grant challenge garnered over 200 applicants with only seven being selected as winners. Between all winners, a total of one million dollars in prizes was granted.
The initiative was designed to support organizations that are working to address barriers and unlock the untapped potential of girls and women in STEM across the country. MIT Solve partnered with Tiger Global Impact Ventures to fund and support this opportunity, which also grants winners with a six-month partnership for organizational development and support.
This prestigious award lends affirmation and accreditation to the organization in the technological and scientific communities. MIT Solve challenges apply a rigorous review and investigative process into the methods and practices of applying organizations choosing only the most innovative solutions.
Founder and Executive Director, Marianne Smith says, “This partnership will allow us to scale our programs to new locations, bolster our Tribal curriculum, connect with a community of innovative problem solvers and increase our capacity to support our existing programs. If you teach girls, the language of code, then they will speak, write and read code. They will be heard. That is what Code Girls United is striving to do”.
Founded in 2016, Code Girls United is a nonprofit organization providing free after-schoolprogramming for fourth to eighth-grade girls and tribal high school girls in Montana.
Code Girls United’s mission is to: To expand the future career opportunities of 4th – 8th grade girls throughhands-on experiences in coding, technology, and business.
To learn more, we welcome you to visit our website at: www.codegirlsunited.org.
