Lynbrook Robotics Tour 2
Lynbrook Robotics Tour 2
On May 16, 2022, we attended another tour hosted by Lynbrook Robotics. The team went all the way to Houston for the World Championships, which is the furthest they have advanced in their 20 years of history, with the help of their magnificent robot! This robot, which was the result of months of work, was the finished product we got to see and even operate!
Lynbrook Robotics Tour 4
On April 26, 2023, GWCSJ revisited Lynbrook Robotics after their build season ended. Since we saw an in-depth walk-through of their building process last time, it was incredible to see the final product in action! The girls had the opportunity to not only learn about and interact with the robot, but operate and drive it themselves. This was truly a wonderful experience all thanks to the Funky Monkeys!
Lynbrook Robotics Tour 3
On February 1, 2023, Lynbrook Robotics hosted us at another one of their in-person work sessions for the new year! The girls were able to see a live demonstration of last year’s World Championships qualifying robot and take a peek into the design process of the next one. We had so much fun getting a closer look at the inner workings of a robot and can’t wait to see the result of their weeks of hard work!
Lynbrook Robotics Tour 2
On May 16, 2022, we attended another tour hosted by Lynbrook Robotics. The team went all the way to Houston for the World Championships, which is the furthest they have advanced in their 20 years of history, with the help of their magnificent robot! This robot, which was the result of months of work, was the finished product we got to see and even operate!
Lynbrook Robotics Tour 4
On April 26, 2023, GWCSJ revisited Lynbrook Robotics after their build season ended. Since we saw an in-depth walk-through of their building process last time, it was incredible to see the final product in action! The girls had the opportunity to not only learn about and interact with the robot, but operate and drive it themselves. This was truly a wonderful experience all thanks to the Funky Monkeys!
Lynbrook Robotics Tour 3
On February 1, 2023, Lynbrook Robotics hosted us at another one of their in-person work sessions for the new year! The girls were able to see a live demonstration of last year’s World Championships qualifying robot and take a peek into the design process of the next one. We had so much fun getting a closer look at the inner workings of a robot and can’t wait to see the result of their weeks of hard work!
Lynbrook Robotics Tour 2
On May 16, 2022, we attended a second Lynbrook Robotics tour of the season where we were able to not only see but interact with the end product of months of machining, building, and coding. We were amazed by the ability of the World Championship qualifying robot to gather balls, accurately shoot them into a hoop, and climb inclined monkey bars! Great work, Funky Monkeys!
Google Tour
On February 21, 2020, we went on a tour of Google's Sunnyvale office, led by Prachi (Girls Who Code San Jose's founder), who now works there! We had a panel with Google engineers, played various computer science-related games, and enjoyed lunch at a Google cafeteria. Thank you to Prachi and all of the panelists for showing us around!
Roblox Tour
On October 14, 2019, we visited Roblox Headquarters and had a panel with female engineers from Roblox. We learned a lot from them. Thank you to Roblox for allowing us to tour your facilities and learn from some amazing engineers!
Pixar Tour
On June 10 and June 22, 2019, we had two groups of girls visit Pixar in Emeryville. We learned a lot about the animation process and behind the scenes work!
2018-19 Graduation
On May 10, we had our graduation for the 2018-2019 session! Girls who were eligible for Graduation were given certificates and there were refreshments for all.
Technovations Regional Pitch
On May 4th, 2019, our three Technovations teams competed with 12 other teams at the Regional Technovations Pitch. Their amazing presentations were the product of several months of hard work. The girls had an amazing time and learned invaluable lessons from this experience!
Winter Themed Meeting
Our winter-themed meeting was definitely a fitting way to end 2018. The girls had a blast exercising their creativity and critical thinking skills while constructing these beautiful and delicious gingerbread houses. Just like in computer science, the girls had to weigh factors such as size and structure when considering the best design. Take a look at some of the imaginative gingerbread houses the girls made!
Tesla Tour
Jun 14, 2018
Thank you Tesla for showing us around your facilities! We enjoyed your all-female panel talking to us about their experiences in tech as well as their varied educational backgrounds. We're excited to see what the female coders at Tesla have in store for us in the future!
Hitachi
May 2, 2018
Thank you Hitachi for hosting Girls Who Code SJ! We learned a lot about some of the inspiring leaders at Hitachi as well as the company and its products. We really enjoyed the breakout sessions, workshops, and panel discussion!
Technovations
May 12, 2018
Three GWCSJ Teams participated in Technovations 2018! The all-female app development competition was held at Salesforce in SF, and the girls had the opportunity to present their hard work to the audience. The girls had a blast applying their computer science knowledge to solve real-world problems and even qualified for regionals!
Nutanix Field Trip
All our members had the opportunity to attend a field trip at Nutanix, an IT company in San Jose. The girls got a tour of the campus and even participated in a fun design challenge!
Zynga Field Trip
The girls in our participation prize winning group, accompanied by the officers and teachers, went on a trip to Zynga headquarters in San Francisco. We got a tour of their impressive campus, learned about how coding and math combine to make animations in video games, and ate lunch with some amazing women who work at Zynga!
GWC SJ 2017 Graduation
We started off our graduation ceremony with a presentation on computational creativity by Dr. Ackerman, a computer science professor at San Jose State University.
The ladies were then presented with certificates and awards for their accomplishments. This group of girls won a trip to Zynga headquarters!
It's been yet another successful year for the club, from exciting lessons on topics from being brave to voice projection to robotics. We've had the opportunity to learn from some truly unique guest speakers. The girls got to design and code projects that matched their interests, including storytelling, music, fashion, and more!
Last of all, we would like to thank our amazing instructors Andy and Jossie (who unforunately couldn't be here on graduation day), and Mrs. Reed for helping the club reach its full potential.
Siri Guest Speaker: Maria Lin
Maria Lin is the creative director for Siri. She's heavily involved in creating Siri's unique quirky alien like personality. She worked closely with Warner Brothers to have Siri as the voice of 'Puter in Lego Batman where Siri made history by being the first AI to receive an acting credit in the movie. She gave us an insight into the work she does and how computer science and code can be used in a wide variety of fields.
Sam Lab Kits
The folks over at SAM Labs were nice enough to provide our club with a few of their Curious and Inventor Kits for the girls to tinker around with. Each kit had various blocks (sensors, buttons, motors, etc.) to be assembled together. We used drag-and-drop programming blocks in the SAM App to program the blocks, and the girls had a terrific time programming their own cars!
Pixar Tour 2016
Thank you girls for your active participation during club meetings. Hope you all had an amazing time touring Pixar!
GWC SJ 2016 Graduation
The Girls Who Code San Jose Club wrapped up another great year with a wonderful and bright group of girls at our 2016 Girls Who Code Club Graduation.
The GWC SJ team hosted a gallery walk presenting all the young ladies' final projects, inviting all family and friends. All of the girls built personal websites using Github and used their knowledge of HTML, CSS and even JavaScript to showcase what they've learned throughout the year. The ladies were then presented with certificates and awards for their accomplishments. Some girls even got to go on a tour of Pixar!
It's been such a fantastic year for this club, filled with exciting lessons from Andy, engineering challenges and guest speakers. We have seen the girls grow so much over the course of this year as they learned not just HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the basics behind all computer programming, but also about possible career options in computer science and the need for women in STEM and computer science fields.
The girls all presented their websites to their family and friends, showing all that they've learned . . .
These girls even won a free tour to Pixar!
Overall, it was a great event and everyone had loads of fun :)
See you all next year!
Pixar Guest Speaker: Henry Garcia
The Girls Who Code San Jose Club invited Mr. Henry Garcia to present to the girls about the various applications of Computer Science in animation! He talked about his role in various Pixar films such as Brave and Toy Story 3, animating each strand of Merida's hair individually and using physics to control the monkey barrel explosion. Overall, the girls had a really great time were super excited to learn some behind the scenes information about how Pixar makes its films!
Mr. Garcia even gave us all Monster's Inc foam fingers and Pixar reusable bags!
Thank you so much Mr. Garcia for educating our girls and we hope to have you back sometime in the future :)
GWC SJ 2015 Summer Camp
The Girls Who Code San Jose Club extended the benefits of Girls Who Code to more wonderful young women through our 2015 Summer Camp!
Logistics:
Who: Girls going into grades 4 - 6
When: August 3rd - 7th, 9am to 4pm
Where: TechLab Education
Through this camp, the GWC SJ team provided girls with a free, collaborative and absorbing introductory coding education based on Level 1 of the national Girls Who Code curriculum. The camp was mainly geared towards students with no prior experience in coding, but plenty of students with experience applied as well!
We used MIT's Scratch application to teach the basics of coding and train students so that by the end of the week they created their own video game or project. We also introduced a but of Python so the girls could see the transition from simple drag-n-drop code to real-life application code. We brought in guest speakers, who spoke about a wide range on topics, including inspiring girls into computer science, the applications of computer science in different job fields, and the logical thinking required in a good computer scientist's mindset. We structured a mentor system of high school girls so that girls can learn from their older peers. Our teaching style is application and game-based, and we creates an environment where girls are empowered to believe in their potential and feel comfortable exploring their abilities in computer science. In addition, our curriculum includes a multitude of interactive activities to help extend the learning process.
The girls learned so much over the course of this week...
...and they presented their amazing projects...
...to their proud parents.
Many thanks to our wonderful volunteer team, who taught the girls and also to Techlabs, who provided facilities.
All in all, the camp was a huge success and the girls had a lot of fun!
...And so many more amazing memories to be made!
