At a glance
go_girl: code+create is a project at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, run in partnership with the Oxfordshire County Council's Early Intervention Service. In line with Oxford’s targets in its Access Agreement with the Office for Fair Access, this interdisciplinary project complements existing programmes aimed at widening access to the University of Oxford, but tackles the problem in a fundamentally new way using technology. The research was originally supported by the University of Oxford IT Innovation Challenges Seed Fund and has received subsequent funding from Goldman Sachs Gives.
Category Archives: Creative coding sessions
Session 35: Working on our individual education- and career goal roadmaps
Today was the last official go_girl session! It was very sad but wonderful to see how far everyone has come in the past year! We started the session with the usual check-in. With the final go girl ceremony, which is … Continue reading
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Session 34: planning for the ceremony
The session started today with the girls talking about their previous week and sharing what they have done over the recent weekend- JT shared with the group some photos of her cousin’s wedding she had attended Saturday. The girls completed … Continue reading
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Session 33: Go Girl show case at East Oxford Hub
Today the go girls got together at the East Oxford Hub. The group discussed last weeks event at the symposium and shared their thoughts.The group discussed the next steps for go girl and what needed to be done for the go … Continue reading
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Session 32: Practise, practise, practise!
Today’s session was all about giving our presentations the final polish and gaining that bit of extra confidence to present our projects to an audience. We started the session by doing some funny vocal exercises to learn how to project … Continue reading
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Session 31: Preparing to present our projects
In today’s session, we continued to prepare our project presentations and to finalize our projects. It’s only two weeks till we will present our projects for the first time to the public! We may not be fully finished with all … Continue reading
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Session 30: Woo-hoo! Thirty sessions done!
After thirty Go girl sessions, it’s amazing to look back and see how far the girls have come. They have been committed to the project, putting in as much effort as they can. The improvements, the friendships and knowledge of … Continue reading
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Session 29: Personal projects progress report
As the project presentation date draws closer, the girls are ensuring that they put in much effort to see their projects through to completion. Today, we started with our usual check-ins from the past week and discussed with the team … Continue reading
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Session 28: Next phase of personal projects
Today we kicked off the session seeing how the girls’ week has been and sharing any updates. Two of the girls have new employment opportunities which is great news and they both will be starting their new roles this week. The group … Continue reading
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Session 27: Personal Projects – Phase 1
Today was very exciting and productive, though we didn’t have a full house because some of the girls couldn’t make it to the session, it was a good start for most of the personal and group projects. The take-home assignments … Continue reading
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Session 26: Personal Projects – Background research and project planning
The long break is over and we are ready to start working on our personal projects! Today’s session started with our usual check-in and everyone seemed to have had a nice holiday- Sabbah in Egypt, Paula in Dubai, Anne & … Continue reading
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Session 25: Go Girl lunch date!
Today the Go Girls went to Bella Italia, Oxford City centre to have lunch and to Celebrate JT’s Birthday and the progress the girls have made to date during the Go Girl group sessions. JT enjoyed her birthday card and … Continue reading
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Session 24: Making an interactive holiday card and starting our projects
We started today’s session with our weekly check-in and then moved on to make mind-maps of project ideas for the creative individual projects and to present the ideas to the group. Some of the young women decided to work in … Continue reading
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Session 23: Journalling our Coding Experiences
As is tradition by now, we started today’s session with our usual weekly check-in. Julia, Sabbah and Shannon updated those who could not attend last week about the session and gave examples of the domain name they chose. We then … Continue reading
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Session 22: Cake Sale & Blogging
After a successful bake sale yesterday morning at the Department of Education, we were tired but excited that we raised some money for Paige. We would like to use this medium to say a big “Thank you” to everyone who … Continue reading
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Session 21: Coding with Scratch
We started today’s session with our weekly check-in and then Sabbah and Julia briefed the others who had not been there when we had talked about robotics (session 19) about the basics of the game they had learned. We also … Continue reading
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Session 20: Preparing for the CEIAG 2016 Conference
It was great to see everyone back after last week’s mid-term break! Today, nearly everyone was able to attend and we started the session with discussing what we need to prepare for tomorrow’s CEIAG Conference at King’s Centre in Botley. … Continue reading
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Session 19: coding with plastic cups
The group session kicked off with the girls discussing the previous week talking about other projects and programmes they are currently involved in; including training and employment seeking. Today the group took part in coding with plastic cups- we got … Continue reading
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Session 18: Thinkersmith Traveling Circuits: Robotics and Pseudocodes
Once everyone arrived, we had our weekly check-in and recaps from the previous week. Lita Thornhill and Luke Mattam, representatives of the Oxfordshire CEIAG (Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance) conference 2016 joined us to briefly discuss what and who … Continue reading
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Session 17: Writing our first program, in Pseudocode
Today nearly everyone was back. After the usual weekly check-in, we started the session by taking a group picture of us in our go_girl: code+create T-shirts (Shannon, Sabbah, Jess and Anne are missing in the picture). After a quick re-cap … Continue reading
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Session 16: Pseudocode and Udacity
We were a bit low on attendance today with only half of the group attending, but we still carried on with our introduction to coding. We did an icebreaker where we paired off and wrote a sequence of codes for … Continue reading
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Session 15: Intro to Coding
Today was our first day back from the holiday break and the start of our coding phase, the last phase of go_girl. It was really great to see everyone and hear how the break was. We received our go_girl t-shirts … Continue reading
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Session 14: Completing and presenting our Digital Wildfire Projects
Today the Go girls have been working on their individual projects for the Digital Wildfire competition. They have been working in pairs on topics about good and bad social media and events that they have experienced when using social media. … Continue reading
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Session 13: Digital Wildfire Projects Progress
In today’s session we focused on finishing the Digital Wildfire projects so the young women could edit and put the finishing touches on them next week before they submit them next Thursday. They made great progress on their projects and … Continue reading
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Session 12: Digital Wildfire Discussion: what does it mean to be a good digital citizen?
Today we had Helena from the Computer Science Department come talk to us for half of the session about the Digital Wildfire project. The young women had the opportunity to engage with her on issues of digital citizenship … Continue reading
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Session 11: Finances, Documentary Editing, and Digital Wildfire
This week we started the session off with a lesson on finances where the young women learned about managing their money and about the risks of short term cash loans. We then continued with the individual projects and began … Continue reading
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Session 10: Go Girl Goes to the Job Fair: Interviews, Filming and iPad Projects
Today was exciting and productive as we had a full day of activities. We all went to a job fair where the young women had the opportunity to interview employers while filming with their iPads. The interviews turned out really … Continue reading
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Session 9: Individualised iPad Projects: Photography, Gaming and Video Blogs!
This was our first week back after the young women’s half-term break. Today’s session was focused on selecting individualised projects for each of the young women to carry out on their iPads for the next couple of weeks. We went … Continue reading
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Session 8: iPads are Here! iMovie Fun
This week was a really exciting Go Girl session because we received our iPads! We spent most of today’s session setting them up then we used them to film new short videos and edited them. The videos were quite diverse, … Continue reading
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Session 7: Introduction to short filmmaking and video editing
We continued with our digital skills and digital storytelling phase in today’s session, which was focused on short filmmaking and video editing. Building on the previous task of taking pictures throughout their day, last week we asked everyone to shoot … Continue reading
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Session 6: “A day in the life of…” – Telling our stories through digital pictures
After our introductory life skills sessions over the past month, we had our first session of the digital skills and digital storytelling phase today. In last week’s session, everyone had been tasked with documenting one day of their week by … Continue reading
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Session 5: Addiction and Mindfulness
In today’s session, the last one for the life skills development and mindfulness phase, we focused on addiction. This topic again stemmed from earlier discussions we had this summer with our Go Girls about what they thought would be helpful … Continue reading
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Session 4: Dealing with Anger and Aggression
The themes and goals of our sessions for this first phase come from a combination of relevancy for the wider goals of Go Girl and the particular interests of our young women. This week’s session on dealing with anger and … Continue reading
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Session 3: How Values Shape our Relationships
An article we recently tweeted discussed the importance of understanding the processes and forces shaping our values and aspirations in the context of “coding culture” which connects nicely with a key aspect of this first phase of Go Girl. There … Continue reading
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Session 2: Communication Skills
Today’s session was focused on communication skills. Communication is fundamental for us to not only express our interests and aspirations but also to help foster healthy relationships, which is next week’s topic. It’s been shown that level of educational aspirations … Continue reading
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Session 1: Values and Aspirations
We’re officially underway with the first phase of our project, which is dedicated to learning about each other and our values and aspirations. We had our first meeting since returning from summer holiday just last week. During the session we … Continue reading
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