Girls Who Code at Social Innovation Summit

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  • 1. Unemployment rate for those under 25 is twice the national average

2. 29%With 1.5 million computing job openings to fill by2020, the U.S. is only expected to produceenough qualified candidates to fill 29% of those jobs. 3. 3In a room of 25 engineers, 3 will be women. 4. 12%Women represent 12% of all computer sciencegraduates. In 1984, this was 37%. 5. 0.3%of high school girls express interest in studyingcomputer science in college 6. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? 7. 98%of computer science majors report beingexposed to computer science before college 8. EXPOSURE+EDUCATION 9. Girls Who Code is working to educate, inspireand equip high school girls with the skills and resources to pursue computing careers. 10. 100%of participants report they are definitely or more likely to major in computer science 11. 100%of participants elected to continue their learnings in computer science 12. 100%say they would like to teach computer science in their school or community 13. 100%say they would take computer science if it wereoffered at their high school 14. 1% Less than 1% of federal STEM educationfunding goes to computer science or technologyprograms