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Tech shouldnt be a boys club

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The TEDx talk I did on why female students don't learn to code and what can be done about this
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Tech shouldn’t be a boys club

@AliceBentinck

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Tech is changing everything

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Who wouldn’t want to be part of this?

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We built

11 startups

Valued at

£22m

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Nilu. Zefi. Leo. Humphrey. Matt. Ewan. Adi. Laura. Andy. Felix. Vivian. Isaac. Zahid. Alex. Alex. Bryan. Leo. David. Elia. Rashid. Emily. George. Henry. James. Kit. Seb. Tim. Gareth. Conno. George. Pana

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Nilu. Zefi. Leo. Humphrey. Matt. Ewan. Adi. Laura. Andy. Felix. Vivian. Isaac. Zahid. Alex. Alex. Bryan. Leo. David. Elia. Rashid. Emily. George. Henry. James. Kit. Seb. Tim. Gareth. Conno. George. Pana

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Tech startup founders

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This can’t be the norm

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So why aren’t young women joining the tech

revolution?

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1. Awareness2. Confidence

3. Skills

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1. Awareness

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“What’s programming?”

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2. Confidence

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What's the most impressive thing

you've ever founded, built, sold, hacked,

hustled or designed?

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“Nothing yet”

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3. Skills

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What’s been the impact of ?

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30% of the participants are now building their own startups

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27% are now working in a startup

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17% are now training to become junior software developers

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What made these girls change their minds

about tech?

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It was just for girls

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It wasn’t just programming

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It built a network

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And now we’re going national…

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Tech shouldn’t be a boys club

@AliceBentinck


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