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Rewriting the Code featured on the local news!

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If you regularly watch Durham’s WRAL news you may have already seen this great interview with our Founder, Sue Harnett. But if you haven’t yet had a chance, you should take two minutes to watch this video featuring some of our wonderful RTC community members. You’ll hear a little bit about our mission, about our … Continued

Discovering the World of CS for Social Good

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I have always been in awe of people who strive to make a change in the world.  The philanthropists and activists on the television, in interviews, and in books inspire me with their radiating passion for what they stand for, and I hope that one day I can be passionate enough about something to also … Continued

Strategically Thinking Outside of the Box: Campus Edition

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To stay ahead of the competition on your campus, you need to look beyond the daily tasks that you have inside the classroom and create opportunities for the future. Students shouldn’t settle. Strategic thinking is a way of looking at your academics with a broader focus. Cultivating the characteristics of a strategic-minded student: Be Proactive … Continued

Learning by Doing: How Bravery Grows Your Skillset

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“Teach girls bravery, not perfection” is the name of Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani’s viral TED talk about her journey to founding Girls Who Code. The first time I saw it was at my very first tech internship before I started college, and it couldn’t have been a more perfect time. Most women in … Continued

How to Deal with Homesickness While at Your Internship

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You were offered an internship, and the company asks if you would be willing to relocate to a city or state outside of home. Being ambitious to see the world, you take the offer. While telling your friends and family, they react to how far you’re relocating for three months. You tell them, “It’s going … Continued

How to Survive the First Day of Your Internship

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Congratulations! You got yourself an internship! As the beginning of the internship season approaches, the sense of security and euphoria you’ve been basking in since you accepted the offer starts to turn into a bundle of nervousness and uncertainty at the prospect of starting a new job. At least, this was my experience when I … Continued

Fellowship Applications open in just 10 days!

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We’re very excited to announce that applications will open for Rewriting the Code’s Fellowship Program in just 10 days, on April 1, 2019. This free, year-long program will run from August 2019 to September 2020. The Fellowship Program is open to all undergraduate women pursuing a major in a tech-related course of study who are interested … Continued

Reframing the Conversation Around Accessibility & Disabilities

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When I was 8 years old I played Neopets, the quintessential mid-2000s pet simulator with its own fantasy world, arcade games, holidays, fanfiction, and its own Neopoints-centered economy, complete with a stock market and player-run virtual stores. As a legally blind kid, most online games weren’t very accessible to me. The colors were always too similar, … Continued

Why and How to Destroy the “Antisocial Engineer” Stereotype

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Throughout my undergraduate career, nearly every time I’ve told someone that I’m a computer science major, it seems like they picture a mysterious hooded figure, hunched over a PC during the wee hours of the night, their face barely illuminated by a screen covered in ferociously typed green commands (click on it—it’s worth it). And … Continued

How STEM Outreach Programs Helped Me

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Growing up, I had no idea what I wanted to be. I knew that I loved putting things together, building, and basically any hands on activity we did in school whether it was in art class, science labs, etc. In my first two years of high school, I grew to love math and science, specifically … Continued

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