Girls Who Code was a Club at Lakewood Public Library from February 2017 through Fall 2023.
In Fall 2024, the club moved to a Drop-In Model under the name Lakewood Coding Club.
Feel free to explore the information provided below from our prior clubs.
During Summer 2017, 6 sessions focusing on a specific coding platform were offered for Girls entering Grades 6 - 12 the next school year. Sessions were held on Mondays with the first session on May 22, 2017 and the final session on August 7, 2017. Each session introduced the attendees to a Woman in Tech and then completed a tutorial. These tutorials were in Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu) or Actimator (an educational gaming platform no longer available). In Scratch, projects included a Jaws animation, a collaborative Dance Party, and recreating a popular YouTube video (based on this video). In Actimator, projects included a Breakout Game, a pool game, recreating a popular YouTube video, and a flying bird game.
In Late Spring 2018, Girls Who Code at Lakewood Public Library offered 4 sessions focusing on Mothers and Daughters working together to create websites. Participants learned HTML (Hyper-Text Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to build recipe websites. Each week also features a Woman in Tech focused on Moms or Moms and Daughters learning to code.
For Fall 2020, we had a Virtual Club that met every Tuesday from 6pm-7:30pm starting October 6 through December 15, 2020. Our club had 6 coders, 2 facilitators, and 1 sponsor.
For Winter/Spring 2021 individual sessions on specific topics/platforms were held virtually. These included creating snowmen in Python and JavaScript, creating a Guess the Word game in Python, Using Tkinter in Python to create a Virtual Pet, and some Scratch challenges.
For the month of November 2021, we met virtually via Zoom and worked together on 3 different Scratch Games using curriculum provided by Girls Who Code in their HQ platform. Meetings were Mondays at 6pm for 1 hour (with an optional addition 1/2 hour at the end for any club member who wanted/needed additional help in Scratch).
Winter 2021-2022 started in January with 2 virtual sessions via Zoom where we worked with the Turtle Library in Python. Then we returned to in-person sessions for more Python, some Micro Bits, and some HTML/CSS.
Summer 2022: In June 2022, we held a Parent/Teen Build-a- Recipe Website course over 4 weeks on Monday evenings.
For Fall 2022, the Girls Who Code Club at Lakewood Public Library had 5 coders, 2 facilitators, 1 sponsor and an additional librarian assistant/facilitator. The club met on Monday evenings for 11 weeks beginning September 12, 2022. Club members used the Girls Who Code HQ site to find activity sets and other materials. They focused on learning Scratch and Python, creating games and projects with a theme of Cats and Food.
For Fall 2023, the club held focused sessions on specific topics. Our sessions were held on Monday evenings from 6pm - 7:30pm at Lakewood Public Library from Monday, September 11 through Monday, November 13 for a total of 10 weeks. The club included 2 members and 2 facilitators.
For Fall 2024, the club moved to a Drop-In Model. Our sessions were held Monday evenings from 6pm - 7:30pm at Lakewood Public Library from Monday, September 9 through Monday, November 11. The club included 2 facilitators and 7 members.
Spring/Summer 2025 - April through August 2025