Impact Stories

TechGirl: Lea Country: Lebanon Participation year: 2017 Lea with the support of her school (International College) and two friends was able to teach tech skills to 15 underprivileged students during a five-week (10 Hour) course.  The workshop focused on design thinking and how to code.  To make the workshop sustainable and a yearly event, Lea…

TechGirl: Asmaa Country: Morocco Participation year: 2017 Asmaa worked closely with AMIDEAST and the US Embassy to organize a girls and women empowerment program.  She is a speaker in a workshop for girls and she addresses the importance of the civic engagement and social activism of women in Morocco.  Asmaa’s  girls’ coding camp project was…

TechGirl: Yasmina Country: Morocco Participation year: 2017 After TechGirls, Yasmina became the president of the science club at her high school. She created a Java script workshop that has been running for 4 months. She is also running a summer tech camp for teens in July 2018. Yasmina continues to take Java Script classes online…

TechGirl: Mariam Q. Country: Palestinian Territories Participation year: 2017 Mariam acted as a coach and mentor to two groups of girls from her former high school, Terra Sancta Girls School–Sisters of St. Joseph-Bethlehem, as they competed in the Technovation Challenge. This commitment included teaching classes in MIT AppInventor, for two hours/week for five weeks, meeting with…

TechGirl: Soukaina Country: Morocco Participation year: 2017 Soukaina volunteers with 1 Million Women To Tech, a non-profit community organization in the Silicon Valley dedicated to empowering women, companies and fueling the rise of the digital economy, by providing technical education to women.  She is participating in the Women’s Summer of Code to, a 3-month global…

TechGirl: Rawan Country: Egypt Participation year: 2017 Rawan invited 40 girls from two schools to visit her high school computer lab to excite them to pursue STEM.  After finishing the labs tour, she started giving college readiness sessions to sophomore and junior girls in her school . About 100 girls took advantage of the materials…

TechGirl: Rund Country: Jordan Participation year: 2017 Rund attends Omareyah School in Amman.  With the assistance of her teacher, Mrs. Wedad, Rund organized and ran Hour of Code Classes for twelve 8th to 10th grade girls and started a school club called CompuGeeks with activities being held over ten weeks (30 hours) for thirteen 8th…

TechGirl: Tayma Country: Palestinian Territories Participation year: 2017 Tayma developed a cyber security curriculum, which will be used in the U.S. Embassy’s English Access program. She is working with Access students (ages 14-17) at AMIDEAST Palestine in Ramallah and Nour Al Huda secondary school. So far the curriculum has reached over 100 students. She has…

TechGirl: Soukaina T Country: Morocco Participation year: 2017 Soukaina started CodeforChange in early February 2018. Every Saturday, she teaches Scratch and critical thinking to 28 seventh graders. She is using open source coding material, reminding us that there are so many resources available out there. Soukaina loves what she is doing. “I feel like I’m impacting…

TechGirl: Sura A Country: Jordan Participation year: 2017 TechGirls make a difference everyday in their communities. Sura had the honor of meeting Queen Noor Alhussein in December,2017 and was recognized for her work promoting children’s rights. Sura was an organizer for #UN First Youth For Human Rights Summit – Jordan.  The goal of the Summit is to…