With Hidden Figures, Google Play
and Made with Code team up to encourage teen girls to code
By Elizabeth Del Valle Global
Partner Marketing Manager, Google Play
In celebration of Women’s History
Month, Google Play is teaming up with Google’s Made with Code to
encourage more teen girls to study computer science. Starting today, you can
watch Hidden Figures on
Google Play Movies & TV in the U.S. and Canada—two weeks ahead of the
Blu-Ray and DVD release. After you watch Hidden Figures, encourage a teen girl
in your life to visit Made with Code to code a message of empowerment,
honoring the female mathematicians of the movie. Google’s Made with Code,
launched in June 2014, inspires millions of teen girls to try coding and to see
it as a means to pursue their dreams.
Hidden Figures tells the true
story of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, the brilliant
African-American female mathematicians working at NASA who served as the brains
behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history: calculating the momentous
launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit.
This story of empowerment and
perseverance is more relevant than ever, since girls are half as
likely than boys to indicate interest in computer science. Hidden
Figures carries an endearing and inspiring message that will hopefully
encourage more girls to study computer science and STEM-related careers.
Earlier this year, Made With Code
brought the magic of the film to local communities by hosting screening and
coding parties for teen girls and passionate policy makers in the San Francisco
Bay Area, Texas, Georgia, Massachusetts and New York. Hundreds of Googlers host
more than 60 coding and viewing parties in their local communities—reaching
over 2,500 girls—throughout February and March.
To keep up the momentum, we’ll
provide members of the National Foundation
for Women Legislators with free access to the digital version of the movie when they
host a Hidden Figures viewing and coding party in their local communities.
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