20th Century Fox and Black Girls CODE Create Future Katherine Johnsons

This is just the best thing ever. As a web pioneer myself, one who started very early on in 1999 and wrote my own code, and as a mother of a young teen in game design who herself is a coder I could not be more impressed with this. Black Girls Code, according to its founder, seeks “to provide young and pre-teen girls of color opportunities to learn in-demand skills in technology and computer programming at a time when they are naturally thinking about what they want to be when they grow up. That, really, is the Black Girls Code mission: to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders, coders who will become builders of technological innovation and of their own futures.”

Hidden Figures provides black girls growing up in America role models in math! Engineering! Science! offered up from Hollywood, really, for the first time. Hidden Figures is not just one of the best films of the year but it’s one of the most important.

20th Century Fox and Black Girls CODE have partnered to create FutureKatherineJohnsons.com, a website built by the next generation of young women poised to make a difference in our world the same way that Katherine, Dorothy and Mary have in the upcoming film, HIDDEN FIGURES. The movie tells the incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson-brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history. Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge, Glen Powell & Kimberly Quinn, HIDDEN FIGURES opens in select theaters Christmas Day, and everywhere January 6th, 2017.

Visit FutureKatherineJohnsons.com to see the future of STEM Today!