Coding Without Borders – Ambassador Program for ISL girls

After the collaborative success of the Society Of Women Coders initiative in October 2021, we are pleased to share with you all an exciting opportunity: “Coding Without Borders – Ambassador Program” for our young girls to develop their coding skills.

At ISL, we are passionate about democratizing the coding skills of female students and empowering them to succeed in this technology-driven world. Coding skills will be crucial for the future. We are going to introduce a “girls only” ISL Coding Club in partnership with the Society Of Women Coders (SOWCoders). We would like to encourage our girls to either nominate themselves to be our Ambassador or to join the coding club to help them to upskill and improve their logical thinking and problem-solving skills.

The SOWCoders organization is now contacting their affiliated schools around the world, asking them to put forward the names of girls who will become the school’s “Ambassador” who will, amongst other duties, lead our own ISL Coding club. The SOW Coders Ambassador will be an inspiration to other girls in our community and become a pioneer of leading the Women in Technology and Entrepreneurship movement in our community/school. We hope to expand the ISL programme to include other Lusaka schools as well as schools throughout the country. In addition to developing valuable personal and team skills this opportunity will undoubtedly contribute to one's university applications. 

Position Title: Ambassador – SOW Coders (and to lead the ISL Coding Club)

Application Link to apply for the Ambassador position: https://tinyurl.com/SOW-ambassador

If the link does not work please paste the url in your browser:shorturl.at/lDKZ8

 Eligibility:

•  Female candidates only, 14 years or older, no technical skills required, basic proficiency in English.

•  Leadership and organizational skills

•  Passionate towards the mission of SOWCoders

 Time Commitment :

•  3 hours/week

•  Appointed Ambassadors will work directly and virtually under the guidance and leadership of SOWCoders, USA.

ISL Coding Club member (not Ambassador) 

Students who are only interested to join the ISL Coding Club and not be the Ambassador are asked to wait for further information on when we will start the club. 

Eligibility to join the club:

•  Female students only

• Year 6 / 7 and above

•  No coding skills are required

Please contact contact Ms.Sudha @ ​svaitheeswaran@isl.sch.zm if you have any other questions.

Different Additional Options/Paths for a SOWCoders Club - 1. Funding for a project - You are eligible to apply for funding for a bigger project on-ground, For eg - On-ground coding camp, Hackathon, workshop etc. 2. Training for Instruction and Content Delivery - SowC will provide all the material.

Some Examples of Successful SOWCoders clubs : Uzbekistan - https://www.instagram.com/sowcoders_uzbekistan/ Uganda - , US (Connecticut - https://www.instagram.com/hallsowcoders_usa/ ), St. Lucia (https://www.instagram.com/sowcoders_slu/ ) , Antigua( https://www.instagram.com/girlcodersantigua/ ), Trinidad and Tobago(https://www.instagram.com/sowcodersprojectinkwell/ ), Chile, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Belize (https://www.instagram.com/sowcodersbze/) , Haiti (https://www.instagram.com/sowcoders_okap/) , Kazakhstan (https://www.instagram.com/sowcoders_kz/)