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Young Women Leveraging Tech for Social Innovation

We want to see young women empowered to leverage technology for social innovation, so that there is greater diversity in the African tech industry. We want high school girls to have an enabling environment to imagine and create new technology that is relevant to a South African context.

Who We Are

Code for Cape Town (Code4CT) is a programme that introduces young girls to basic web building skills and exposes them to opportunities in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector.

Participants are trained in web development, design principles, as well as courses in professional development. Code4CT aims to inspire a generation of young girls who are well-prepared with a toolkit of technical and soft skills in order to achieve high impact in the workplace.


CODING

Learn how to build your own websites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript & JQuery. Go on to explore exciting modules from game development to user experience design.

COMUNICATION

Learn how to pitch ideas, represent yourself online, communicate professionally and work with online collaboration tools.

CAREER GUIDANCE

Explore future options by meeting different companies doing exciting things with technology. We offer career testing and connect you to our network of study institutions and bursary programs.

PROBLEM SOLVING

Apply your coding skills to issues you are interested in. You will learn how to tackle complex problems using the design thinking process.

Our Exciting Courses

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Meet Our Team

Our team Core team Emma Dicks Founder and Director Emma is passionate about providing high quality education that enables young people to bring innovative ideas to life and play an active role in South Africa’s economy.

Emma Dicks

Founder and Director

Emma is passionate about providing high quality education that enables young people to bring innovative ideas to life and play an active role in South Africa’s economy.

Tegan Crous

Program Lead

Tegan heads up the high school program. She is spurred on by a heart for people and seeing them pursue their potential in a safe, fun and nurturing environment.

Tracy-Anne Sikenjana

Leadership Program Coordinator

Tracy joined the Code4CT program in 2015 and then matriculated from Rustenburg Girls’ High in 2016. She decided to intern with Code4CT to give back to an organisation that had a large impact on her personal growth and development.

BUHLE MLINGWANA

Course Lead / Programme Coordinator

Experienced Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry.

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Code for Cape Town is a project of Innovate South Africa, which is a registered non-profit (137806NPO) and a Public Beneficiary Organisation (930050338)

021 685 0991

info@code4ct.com

403 Old Castle Brewery, 6 Beach Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7915

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