Passionate about bridging the gap between #ComputerScience education and real-world innovation | Founder & Executive Director at @WeCodeDreams
Chicago, IL
Joined June 2011
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We (& our amazing young coders) were featured by @Forbes!
Kids can change the world with code. Let's give them the resources and confidence to do just that! Check out @WeCodeDreams and @CoderHeroes.
This data scientist is offering virtual coding camps for students nationwide to narrow STEM’s education gap: on.forbes.com/6017GyVEt by @brianne_garrett
Last chance to get your tickets for Bingo for a Cause, our annual fundraiser THIS FRIDAY supporting @WeCodeDreams and their free CS & tech programs! All tix include dinner, drinks, games, prizes, and tropical holiday fun! 🎄🍹🌴
🎟️: eventbrite.com/e/bingo-for-a…
Bring your friends, bring your family! Help us continue our free and stipend-based computer science programs for kids and adults!
🎉 Chicago! Love a good deal? We're bringing a #BlackFriday special for our Bingo for a Cause (tropical holiday edition) fundraiser on Dec. 6th at the Lyric Opera!
🖤 From now until Nov. 30th, get 25% off tickets with code "black-friday" at checkout: bit.ly/4fP3eB9
🚨 Google & Apple 2025 SWE internships are live! 🚨
But…it’s day 2 of our summer internship program.
Should interns apply ASAP to gain a competitive edge (early apps are rolling)?
Or wait until they have more substantial impact from this year’s internship to showcase? 🤔
Got a sec? @WeCodeDreams is a finalist in the #YNPNChiAwards for Nonprofit of the Year! Vote by June 5: surveymonkey.com/r/NGKG7CY@Y…
Thank you! We could not be more grateful for this platform to share the incredible impact that CYD has for our communities 💗
Really excited for @WeCodeDreams to partner with NASA Space Apps for a weekend hackathon opportunity for Chicago high school students! Application closing soon! docs.google.com/forms/d/1Vtq…
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To our incredible students — Ndagukeje!
Today marks the LAST CLASS of our inaugural Women Building Change program. Our students have persevered through power outages and connectivity issues all while learning data science.
The future is female, and the future is Burundi. – at Burundi
Brianne Caplan retweeted
Super proud of our students in Ruyigi, Burundi developing innovative tech solutions to tackle local society and business problems! 🌟Their presentations were 10000/10! 🙌
Best welcome to #Burundi with our Women Building Change scholars at @WeCodeDreams and @KithubNews 💕✨🌟 Please consider contributing to our movement: gofundme.com/f/lets-bring-th…
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We attended @WeCodeDreams #Accessibility Ideathon event where our team chatted with participants and answered questions about designing for #neurodiverse users. We were honored to be a part of the event! @Google @jpmorganchase #Google #GoogleChicago #CodeYourDreams
ALT 3 people posing in front of an Aspiritech table with laptops and Aspiritech branded items
#teacher friends, do you have community engagement or activism curriculum that you like and would recommend?
Whoever said TikTok’s a black hole of time clearly hasn’t stumbled upon STEM-Tok. Just lost an hour there and now I can calculate the actual gravitational force of a black hole! 🤣👩🔬
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Exciting news! We've partnered with @WeCodeDreams a non-profit empowering diverse leaders in tech. Join us tomorrow for a computer drive to build tech hubs worldwide. Donate your old laptop at booth 28 in the exhibitor hall! 💻
#womenimpacttech
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21st CCLC is federal funding used to support afterschool programs. Without immediate legislative action, thousands of IL youth will lose access to programming & 1,238 afterschool staff members will lose their jobs. Tell your elected officials p2a.co/grxm3kj
Proud to represent @WeCodeDreams with the @ACTNowCoalition team here in Springfield.
ACT Now is here in person & virtually at the ISBE board meeting with advocates from across the state to talk about 21st CCLC! @BPNCchicago @ASNChicago @ICOYouth @ASPIRAIllinois @TheCRCL Family Focus, Sterling-Rock Falls YMCA, & Project Success of Vermilion County #Fund21stCCLC
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So inspired by the Hackathon for Accessibility, a vision made reality by Shireen Hafeez of @deafkidscode @WeCodeDreams held at @google! Loved meeting Deaf/HOH students @ChiPubSchools, @ChicagoParks D/HOH prog. Today’s participants are brainstorming tomorrow’s access.
ALT Deaf and hard of hearing students participate in the hackathon and are seated around a round table. Jose, their instructor, Jill Stark, Shireen Hafeez, Rachel Arfa and Sarah Faber of Parks join the students in smiling for the camera.
ALT Deaf and hard of hearing students participate in the hackathon and are seated around a round table. Jose, their instructor, Jill Stark, Shireen Hafeez, Rachel Arfa and Sarah Faber of Parks join the students in smiling for the camera.
ALT Shireen Hafeez of Deaf Kids Code, MOPD Commissioner Rachel Arfa and Brianne Caplin of Code Your Dreams are sitting on a counter posing for a photo below a sign with the words “Accessibility Ideathon”
ALT Shireen Hafeez of Deaf Kids Code, Tina Childress, audiologist and tech extraordinaire and MOPD Commissioner Rachel Arfa are talking animatedly.
📣Scholarship Alert🚀FREE registrations for underrepresented groups in tech 4 Accessibility Ideathon @ Google Chicago!
Let's build an inclusive community of innovators💡Apply by Mar 26🗓️Women, POC, LGBTQIA+, & people w/ disabilities encouraged🌟Apply: lnkd.in/gaeB7yCE 🎓
Chicago friends! Register today for our Accessibility Ideathon at Google - codeyourdreams.org/Code-for-…
The possibilities are endless when @WeCodeDreams partners with @deafkidscode!
@codewithbri @deafkidscode @WeCodeDreams
codeyourdreams.org/code-for-…
Looking forward to our event on April 1st at Google in Chicago!
