Malala has vocalized her support for Code.org's Hour of Code program, encouraging women and girls to give computer science a try. I consider myself to be a writer and a creative person, a lover of words and beautiful sentences. Despite my journalism background and struggles with math, I am passionate about technology. I understand that tech is the way of the future and could not agree more with Malala that girls need to immerse themselves in computer science from a young age. Technology fields should no longer be a boy's club, and women need to be taking the steps to close the obvious and glaring gender gap.
I'm making it a personal goal to become more proficient in tech and improve my STEM skills. I recently downloaded a "learn to code" program with hundreds and hundreds of hours of lessons and exercises. I was able to get this bundle for an amazing price through my job, but there are plenty of affordable and free opportunities online if you're interested in picking up some new skills. This name your own price bundle is an awesome opportunity we've been promoting through CEWiT.
I'm determined to fit in some Ruby on Rails lessons and learn the basics before January. It's a lot to fit in with school, work and extracurriculars, but I'm doing bits at a time and will have more free time over winter break. It helps to set a personal deadline, and I know I want to be able to put these skills on my resume before my job search really picks up in the spring.
I encourage you all to take Malala's advice and try your hand at Hour of Code. It's so important to be a well-rounded applicant in today's economy.
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