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While the Pacinotti-Archimede School in Rome is hosting the first edition of CodingGirsl Junior, a spin-off of CodingGirls Rome-USA, daily Pagina99 published an interview with tutor Giorgia Di Benedetto and Cecilia Stajano as part of an article dedicated to technological stereotypes.
«We teach in a simple and fun manner with real and tangible models, examples and images. Computer science is already in our lives, every day,” explains Giorgia Di Tommaso, 24, who is studying at Sapienza University in Rome and acts as a coach for the Fondazione Mondo Digitale that organized the Week of Coding for schools in October with the American Girls Who Code Organisation. Girls Who Code aims to promote gender equality in computer science by 2020, by educating over one million young women. «The enthusiasm and charisma of the two American coaches, Elizabeth Caudle and Ashley Gavin, inspired us all. They are so young (27 and 26) and already so competent. The students immediately understood that there can be a different way of living technology besides just passively using it,” adds Di Tommaso. And they did it in a very personal way: «I also attended coeducational training sessions,» adds Cecilia Stajano, Fondazione Mondo Digitale Coordinator «and I have noticed that males feel more secure, more confident. They feel that coding is there field and act accordingly. Females, on the other hand, act in different manners and propose more creative solutions. All young students strive to be protagonists and coding allows them to express themselves. It’s self-awareness, almost a philosophical process.»
Read the article (in Italian)
by Barbara Sgarzi
Pagina99, 18 December 2014
