IndeedWeCode IWC is an annual two-week summer camp that is built around three words that begin with the letter "I":  Illumination! Imagination and Innovation!

IndeedWeCode (IWC) is a dynamic coding program for African American middle and high school girls that teaches transformative skills to maximize the life chances of the least visible people in IT and technology-based entrepreneurship.  But it is so much more!

Three components comprise the IWC model:  

1) the core mission; 

2) distinctive features: and 

3) the “umbrella of opportunities.

The IWC Core Mission: To render coding instruction and IT-related proficiencies and opportunities more accessible to more African American girls.

• coding experience preview days that facilitate self-selection
• exemplary instruction from culturally competent providers  
•  mentorship from African American IT/STEM role models
•  parent advocacy: sustained support and positive reinforcement at home
• partnerships: community and corporate support
• distinguishing the under served from the under privileged

The IWC “Umbrella of Opportunities” enables participants to become:

• Ambassadors - spreading the good news about coding, IT and STEM  

CEF wants Black girls to:  See the possible: illumination! Dream the invisible: imagination! Createthe tangible: innovation! (…and so much more!)