Kent Black Action Commission (KBAC) has announced a new partnership with Girls Who Code (GWC), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology.<\/p>\n
In keeping with its mission, GWC is conducting summer immersion programs throughout the country.<\/p>\n
The free program, which runs for seven weeks, is for current 10th- and 11th-grade girls. Classrooms are in leading technology companies like Facebook, Microsoft, and AT&T.<\/p>\n
The application process is competitive and will close on March 17. Applications are by online submission<\/a>. Mention KBAC as your affiliation on the application.<\/p>\n For questions, please contact KBAC\/Girls Who Code focal person Azalea Johnson at 253-631-7944.<\/p>\n To learn more about KBAC, visit kentblackactioncommission.org<\/a> or visit Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Deadline for applications is March 17 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-26783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26783"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}