i hope all of you have had an -- had a few moments to see the girls. i know prime minister trudeau spent about half an hour with the girls. at he is really into it. these are young women learning how to do computer coding to solve real-world problems. we are long on this where we are partnering with microsoft and girls who code to teach computer science and every public school in every grade starting in kindergarten. [applause] a great thing. and i have to say, especially with three of us women here on stage, it is great to go down and see these girls to rid they are the face of the future. they are passionate and they are solving these problems. we are going to queue up the video and then -- we are going to cue up the video and then

reshma is going to join us on stage. don't really eat like i should. im a fuel or for a rental company. >> in the wintertime, it's a lot more strenuous. you work from 7:00 in the morning until 4:00 in the morning. >> my work is dangerous. i'm basically driving a bomb around. >> my dad works a lot. he wakes up early and comes home late at night. >> i would not want or need to do what i do. i want her to go to college. i want her to have more opportunities in life. that is why i am supporting coding. the goal was just getting

them comfortable and not afraid to make mistakes. to get out. because youficult have to do math with it. >> what is that map for? >> to click to show where it will go. coding has taught me that nothing comes easy. >> girls to code is a lot more than just coding. askingr life skills, questions, working together, teamwork. >> coding makes me able to create stuff. it makes what i create come to life. >> i have these extracurricular have more so she can

to adjust us but it's not just an opportunity in life, but it is also the next craft. she is the center of my world. i have had full custody of persons i was in the military. she has kept me strong and focused. my goal before i die is to make sure her life is comfortable as can be and i am here as much as i can be for her. stories, which means i like to make them come to life. >> when she puts her mind to it, she can do anything she wants. >> courtney is smart. she is kind. and she is a coder. [applause] thank you.: thank you so much, governor to bedo for inviting us

here today. you are such a role model for some many girls in our country. so thank you. so, carrollton, ohio could be any town in america. in carrollton, there is no wi-fi in the homes. there's often no wi-fi at these schools. the county has been decimated by her when epidemic, but 40 girls twice a week meet in a local library to learn how to code. to get their shot at the middle class. automation has transformed everything about the way we live and work. jobs are not going to be done by machines and humans. they are going to be done by robots and computers. if we were honest, this has created a lot of pain for americans. a tremendousreated opportunity. there are 500,000 jobs that are

open in computing and technology , and these are jobs that are great. they pay a great wage, 120 thousand dollars if you are a software programmer. the problem is too many americans do not have the skills to fill these jobs. only 40,000 americans graduated in computer science to fill 500,000 jobs. this is an opportunity for many of you injure states and your constituents. i believe that the solution is girl power. women over the past two decades, we have been climbing, for the majority in college, the majority and the labor force. county, into any town, parish, and you will see woman who are putting food on the table.

the problem is the number of women in computing has been declining. in the 1980's, if you walked into any computer science classroom is the -- in the country, it would be have poise, half girls. if we looked at steve jobs' macintosh team, the word be more women on that team then anyone today. it is a huge, huge loss. people often ask me, why? why are women disappearing? and the first thing is is culture. i know a lot of you sitting round the table have daughters. . have met some of them we know what happens around eighth grade when all of a sudden they loved math and science and they now hate it. it is because of the barbie doll that says i hate math, let's go shopping instead.

it is because we can't walk into a store and by a t-shirt that says "i'm allergic to out to rep." -- "i'm allergic to algebra." the richer we have of a programmer is -- the picture we have a programmer is a dude in a hoodie sitting in a basement. the girl says i don't just want not be him, i do not want to be friends with him. culture has a huge impact on what girls want to be as they grow up. i did a whole said talk on this. i spend a lot of time in the company of teenage girls. i dissect them like a science experiment. one of the things i realize. we are raising our girls to be perfect. we are raising our boys to be brave. at a very young age, we teach our girls to smile pretty, play it safe, get all a's.

we teach a poised to crawl to the top of the monkey bars and jump off headfirst. by the time they are adults, they are risk takers. they say in silicon valley, you cannot even get funding unless you have had to startups. my two and a half old -- year old son is here. he was crying for selfie with just entered oh yesterday. i often look at his swim class. it is half boys and cap girls. when the girls are swimming, the parents are saying, ok, honey, you do not have to take your feet wet. and the boys they are pushing them in the deep and because they are teaching them to be men, how to be fearless, how to be risk takers. and we are protecting our girls, we are causing them, making them afraid of critical feedback. coding is a huge part in teaching them how to be imperfect. non-coder decided to

do something about it and i started an organization called girls who code and i taught 40,000 girls how to code in all of our 50 states through free summer immersion programs and clubs. and i do this work, i will admit as a feminist with a capital f, but i do this work because i believe in the economic opportunity of women and i believe they will change the world and i see this every day. wase this in one girl who five years old when her daddy got diagnosed with cancer. and out rhythm to help detect whether a cancer is benign or malignant sushi could save her father's life. i see it into 11-year-olds from that kids who saw were dying of lead poisoning. i see it in jazzman whose mother

works at burger king. she built -- i see it in jasm ine. to teach satapp words. i hope all of you had an opportunity to go downstairs and cb's 30 girls from rhode island and massachusetts and new jersey -- see these 30 girls from rhode island and massachusetts and new jersey solving the problems of the world. they built an act for senior citizens because far too many of their aunts and uncles had been hacked. they built a website to make sure underemployed women had an opportunity to get jobs. we had a team from the northeast they built an application to negotiate traffic because far too many of them are late for school. future.rls are our

eyes, i i look in your see the same look i see in courtney's fathers eyes. you do anything for your girls and you would probably do anything for your constituents who are girls. and when it comes to computer science education, we have made progress. hutchinson, you have done tremendous work. we are so proud what we are doing. today, one in four students offers computer science. i am here on this stage to talk truth to power. we are failing our girls. failing ourare girls. you don't have to trust me. look at the data. than one out of five girls areomputer science classes is girls. that is not enough for me. it should not be enough for you.

please track data. don't ever take your eyes off gender. we also have an opportunity together to make sure we get every single school a girls to code club. we know that afterschool programs for girls will increase the likelihood that they will sign up for one of your computer science classes. computerow learning science in the daytime. we can do this. look, i am not a coder. i know most of you are not. you do not need to be technical to be a leader on this issue and i am living proof of that. this is a problem we can solve. and it is up to you. the future of our girls is in each and every one of your hands and i want to create the next generation of powerful female

leaders and i know you do, too. i hope you will join me in this movement. thank you so much. [applause] >> please remain seated. we will be moving into our next session immediately. is the ceo ofr his or her state, the leader in charge of making sure the economy grows, working with the legislature to move the state forward and providing the leadership to deliver effective services to constituents, but if a tornado or wildfire route through your state or other catastrophe like a mass shooting happens, do today governments can come to a halt. crises remind -- require an immediate shift in priorities.

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