Avye
Couloute
Student, Social Entrepreneur, Coder, Maker, Workshop Leader, Women & Girls Tech Advocate, GenArm2Z Ambassador at GIRLS INTO CODING
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Avye Couloute Bio
Avye, a 14-year-old student is a multi-award-winning tech maker, social entrepreneur, female tech advocate, workshop leader, and the founder of Girls Into Coding.She is aware of the gender imbalance in Stem education & occupations and works tirelessly to create Tech opportunities for young people.
After observing most attendees at her workshops were boys, she was determined to get more girls into Tech. 3 years ago, she founded Girls Into Coding (GIC) - a program of free events where girls aged 10-14 have an opportunity to explore coding, physical computing & robotics. She reaches out to female role models in STEM, inviting them to give talks at these events.
Avye’s endeavours have allowed her to emerge as a visible female role model: she demonstrates Tech projects to the public including international events, leads regular tech workshops, writes blogs; has had several articles which highlight & celebrate her work in tech, video presentations, won Tech competitions, fundraising to supply girls with physical computing kits & books, designs, develops & makes robots & kits used at her events, is an ambassador for Arm - part of the GenArm2Z program. She is on a mission to engage at least 1000 girls per year with workshops, including robotics, coding, physical computing and 3D printing/3D Design.
During Covid 19 she launched a virtual version of GIC and now successfully delivers her robotics workshop online to girls, using kits that she designs and posts to their homes.
She advocates for diversity in the tech sector and believes you are never too young for your ideas to have value.
She wants all girls to feel empowered to access opportunities to learn how to code, develop their making and digital skills regardless of where they come from.