Saujani: 80% of Girls Who Code students are minorities, median score 89%
Reshma Saujani · a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code? · Jan 2, 2019 · at 32:15
Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, shares program demographics and end-of-program CS exam score results for their students.
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“Half our girls are from free reduced lunch, 80% are minority, and what's so incredible is that, you know, the median school on the technical survey, which is the equivalent of basically a college CS one-on-one exam is an 89%”
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