Girls Into Coding

Can cities keep their cool when summers keep getting hotter? 🌍🏙️

Our latest Girls Into Coding article looks at how cities around the world are adapting to a warming climate, from Heat Ready London and Amsterdam's Vehicle2Grid scheme to Copenhagen's sustainable heating and Singapore's floating solar panels.

These innovations aren't science fiction. They're happening right now, and the girls who learn about the tech behind them today could be the engineers designing the climate-resilient cities of tomorrow. That's why we're working to empower more girls into tech and engineering.

Check out our latest Girls Into Coding article 👉🏽 https://bit.ly/4rNlLEZ

Coming soon 🎉 Join us on Sunday 27th September 2026 for a Girls Into Coding event, empowering girls through tech and engineering 🤖🛠️

Hosted by Good Hotel London and supported by BBC Children in Need , this is a chance for girls aged 10 to 14 to get hands-on with robotics, coding and engineering, and see what they're capable of building.
Our guest speaker, Hanna Jónsdóttir, Junior Software Engineer at SourceWhale, will join us for her talk, "Dare to Try".

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📅 Sunday 27 September 2026
🔗 Book here or join our waiting list as places can become available: https://bit.ly/4xR6Mv6

Sunday's workshop had girls hands-on across robotics and physical computing.

We also had two speakers who showed just how wide that path can go. Anjola J., from our own GIC community, shared her tech journey so far, still right at the start of it. Cathie Jayakumar-Hazra, a cybersecurity and AI security specialist, talked about "Girls Who Protect the Digital World," years further down that same path.

One girl showing what's possible early on, one showing what it can become. That's the point of putting them in the same room.

Thank you to The London Community Foundation for supporting the day, and to Civo Tech Junction for hosting us.

💥 We're excited to announce our next Girls Into Coding event on Sunday 13th September 2026, hosted at Civo Tech Junction!

Girls aged 10–14 will get hands-on with robotics and physical computing, exploring how tech can be used for good, 🛠️🤖, plus hear from two brilliant speakers:

🎤 Anjola Johnson, from our Girls Into Coding community, sharing her own tech journey
🎤 Cathie Jayakumar-Hazra, cybersecurity and AI security specialist, on "Girls Who Protect the Digital World"

And it's completely free!

We're grateful to The London Community Foundation for supporting this event, and to Civo for hosting us at Tech Junction.

Spaces are limited; secure yours here or register on the waiting list: https://bit.ly/4gVIQA5

This note from a parent after Friday's bootcamp made our whole weekend. 💛 (see the quote card). Thank you for taking the time to share this.

Moments like this are why we do this work. Every bootcamp is built to give girls hands-on time with tech and engineering, and to help them leave feeling more confident than when they walked in. 🛠️🤖

Thank you to our incredible mentors and volunteers who gave their time on the day, and to the parents for helping to make this possible and for your kind words. 🙏🏾

Bootcamp hosted by Plus X Innovation Slough and supported by Heathrow Community Trust and TechSoft UK Ltd

In-person bootcamp alert🚨 : Friday 28 August 2026, Girls Into Coding is back with a free, full day of hands-on tech and engineering for girls aged 11-14.

CAD, laser cutting, 3D printing, soldering, robotics, coding, and more.🛠️💻

Hosted by Plus X Innovation, Slough, supported by Heathrow Community Trust 🙌🏽

All places are FREE; book yours here: https://bit.ly/4xByc8y (or register on our waiting list if places are full)

Share with a family who'd love this for their daughter.

Exciting news 🎉
Girls Into Coding has been selected for the Southwark Impact Growth Studio, delivered by Foundervine in partnership with Southwark Council.

This programme supports growth-stage social enterprises like ours to scale sustainably, strengthening our business model, building investment readiness, and helping us take real steps toward our Makerspace 🙌🏽

Since 2018, we've reached over 20,000 girls through workshops, events, talks, inspirational content, and outreach, working to empower more girls into tech and engineering.

Grateful for the opportunity, and looking forward to what's ahead!

Can young people change the direction of smart city development? We think the answer is yes 🏙️

Our latest Girls Into Coding article looks at how children and young people are already helping shape the cities of the future, from EU-funded climate projects to neighbourhood mapping schemes that feed directly into local planning decisions.

Urban populations are getting younger, and if planners don't listen to the people who'll live in these cities the longest, they risk building places that don't work for anyone. Giving young people a voice now doesn't just lead to better cities, it helps empower more girls into tech and engineering by showing them their ideas matter.

Check out our latest Girls Into Coding article 👉🏾 https://bit.ly/4powwMD

What an afternoon! ⚡

Yesterday, our girls built and powered their own renewable energy systems, wind turbines, solar generators, all of it. They wrote the code to feed power into a "grid" and watched their houses light up.

They tested different designs, tweaked and optimised their generators, then went head-to-head to see who could generate the most power. The competition was fierce, the laughter louder, and the atmosphere in that room was electric (pun intended).

Huge congratulations to our winning pair (Possum Power)! 🏆

Thank you to our brilliant mentors and volunteers for making the day run so smoothly, and to BBC Children in Need and Good Hotel London for supporting us and this event!

On Wednesday, I moderated a panel at the UN AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva with four of the world's leading AI scientists: Yoshua Bengio, Joëlle Barral, Vukosi Marivate, and Yutaka Matsuo.

Every question I asked put young people at the centre.

At one point, I raised the question: if young people aren't in the room where decisions are being made, whose problems are actually being solved? The panel agreed that they aren't, and that this is a problem. That moment also opened up a wider point. The conversation has to include the realities of young people from places like Africa, where AI needs to work for entirely different life experiences, not just the ones this room assumes.

The people shaping AI are mostly not young. The people whose lives it will shape most are.

That gap is worth talking about.