Category: Schedule

We are so excited to be back for another year of teaching girls to code! If you are interested in joining us this year and are a high school girl, age 14-18, please contact us at fvgcc12@gmail.com. We will be hosting meetings on Zoom as well as reintroducing some in person meetings at 25N Coworking in Geneva, IL. By hosting Zoom meetings, we are now open to girls everywhere. So, if you are interested in learning to code, contact us! We hope to see you on Zoom at our first meeting on Friday, October 14 at 5:45 pm!

As of now, we are planning for two Zoom meetings per month and one in-person. But, girls can join from Zoom for all meetings. We will continue to monitor Coronavirus rates within our community and make a plan to safely teach our group in a fun and engaging environment whether in person or online!

2022-2023 FVGCC Schedule

October 14 – Welcome meeting with an introduction to Slack

October 21 & 28

November 4, 11, 18

December 2, 9

January 6, 13, 27

February 3, 10, 24

March 3, 10, 17

April 7, 21, 28

May 5 – Last Meeting and farewell to our Seniors!

We are planning for a hybrid schedule of two Zoom meetings and one in-person meeting per month for the 2021-22 school year. With our Zoom capabilities, girls are welcome to join us from anywhere and are welcome to attend all meetings remotely or to participate in the hybrid schedule. Looking forward to seeing you in October!

Fox Valley Girls Coding Club will meet for the 2017-18 school year on Friday evenings from 5:45 p.m.-7:45 p.m. at 25N Coworking on River Street in downtown Geneva.  This year’s coding projects include web and mobile projects and perhaps some work with IoT.  FVGCC is open to all girls, ages 14-18.  Limited spaces are available so please sign up now!  Contact us at fvgcc12@gmail.com.

Technologies

Web (October – December 2017): We will use Cloud9 online IDE (integrated development environment), GitHub and GitHubPages to build HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript websites. All of the girls will also have a subdomain on which they can deploy websites. This year we will be building web-based games based on the examples in Learn HTML5 by Creating Fun Games by Rodrigo Silveira.

Mobile and/or 3D Gaming (January – March 2018):

Mobile: We are looking at Thunkable for iOS and Android mobile app development. Right now, they only support Android, but they are collecting names of users who would like to be beta testers for their iOS version! As a backup, we can use React Native. If we go with React Native, we may use the book React Native Quickly by Azat Mardan.

3D: We are considering using the Unity Game Engine to get our feet wet and then we can consider future projects, which may involve deploying games to the Microsoft Hololens.

Gadget Month (April 2018): Awesome Shield has a pretty cool Arduino based hardware shield that can be used with their Ardiuno library in Adruino Studio. This might be a good stepping stone to more advanced bread-boarding with Arduino and Arduino Studio if the girls want to go in that direction! In the past, the girls have also used Makey Makeys to play the games they have built. We could take those to the next level and use some of the more advanced keyboard features. Robin also has a Hololens, Ozobot, Rasberry Pis to play with! Also, we can design models for 3D Printing using TinkerCad.

Meeting Schedule

October (Web) – 13, 20, 27

November (Web) – 3, 17 (November 10th Cancelled!)

December (Web) – 1, 8, 15

January (Mobile/3D Gaming) – 12, 26

February (Mobile/3D Gaming) – 2, 9, 23

March (Mobile/3D Gaming) – 9, 16, 23

April (Gadgets) – 6, 13, 20

May 4th – Last Class Cinco de Mayo Party!