Girls Code Summer Camp at UGA Skidaway Institute Today
Monday, July 11th, 2022
The University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Girls Who Code and The Creative Coast will present a one-of-a-kind experience for middle school girls in Chatham County to learn about marine science and computer coding at UGA Skidaway Institute on Monday, July 11. The Girls Code Summer Camp will teach campers to design and program a playable game related to marine science, all under the guidance of female scientists and programmers.
The program was created by UGA Skidaway Institute scientist Catherine Edwards and Savannah
Arts Academy (SAA) senior and Girls Who Code co-founder Sage Batchelor. It will include 32 girls from 20 different public schools between the 5th-8th grades. Edwards and her team will introduce the girls to underwater robots, including what they do, how they are programmed, what type of data they produce and how that data is used by scientists.
The camp will continue the remainder of the week at Georgia Southern University, where Batchelor and a group of female counselors (seniors and recent graduates of SAA) will teach campers to design and build a computer game using the information they learned about underwater robots.
Sponsors for the program include the City of Savannah, UGA Marine Education Center, Georgia
Southern Business Innovation Group and Elevate Savannah.
