Five local students are now budding computer coders thanks to a group that encourages women to 🎉get involved in technology.
“Through this internship, I learned how to be fearless,” said Nikki Allen, of The Bronx, one of five college and high-school students picked to participate in a collaboration between the organization Girls Who Code and AOL’s youth-enterta♑inmen♔t site, Cambio.
“I learned how to work wit🍨h a team in a professional environment,” she told The Post on Sunday
Allen, a seniﷺor at the Collegiate Institute for Math and Science, said she realized her dream job was to work in cybersecurity after interning over the summer with to redesign its site. The revamped site is set to launch Monday.
Thꦦe other interns were Natasha Driver, Lily Yuan, Michelle Polton-Simo a🧜nd Roxy Banik.
Girls Who Code, aꦍ nonprofit, aim♛s to teach a million women to code by 2020.
During the s⛦ix-month project, the girls focused on two Cambio projects: developing a “Celebspiration” photo and writing section and creating a platform called “Col[lab]” that encourages young women to write articles for𒊎 the site.
“We wanted to create a place where young women could create a place to learn about all the things they’re interested in,” said Nisha Dua, general manaജger of Cambio.