We already know she can walk the (cat)walk, but what about talking the talk? Well Karlie Kloss definitely has #TechTalk down with her new passion for coding. A passion she hopes other young women will follow.
Karlie Kloss proves she’s more than just a pretty face (and mile-long legs) with her young women coding initiative. After last year’s successful Kode with Karlie scholarships, Kloss is back with the #KodeWithKlossy summer code camps.
After completing a coding class herself with Flatiron School back in 2014, Kloss experienced first-hand how transformative and eye-opening coding could be for a fashion businesswoman like herself. So much of the fashion industry —and frankly the rest of the world, is driven by technology. She knew how benefitting learning code could be so she became an advocate for encouraging young women to learn computer programming.
Last year, she partnered with Flatiron School to offer 21 scholarships to young female students for them to enroll in the same coding course she attended the year before. From a virtual fashion closet, a global warming prediction tool to a book sampling app, the scholars proved how versatile coding can be.
Kloss was so impressed by their apps that she expanded her coding initiative and launched the #KodeWithKlossy summer code camps. The free two-week coding summer camps are offered three times to girls aged 13 to 18 in NYC, LA and her hometown of St.Louis. The students will learn the fundamentals of Ruby on Rails and how to build real apps with code.
Kloss sees learning code as a superpower that allows you to have a say in the way the future world will look like. Making young women more involved in coding shapes the next them into the generation of change-makers. Now that’s a #WCW.
Have an idea of what you’ll do with your coding superpower? Why not apply for the #KodeWithKlossy summer code camps?
