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Girls Can Code
This is a talent show with a difference – the girls taking part don’t think they’ve got the talent for it! Radio 1’s Alice Levine takes 5 girls who can take selfies to see if they can take-on the male-dominated world of digital technology.
Half of all gamers are women - but only 4% code them. Only 7 of the richest 100 tech billionaires are female. East End girl Ellie, art student Daisy, science boffin Neelam, fashion grad Tolani and wannabe millionaire Arooj go on a crash course in the testosterone-fueled worth of tech, to see if they can buck the trend and get a slice of the action.
The girls are set a simple challenge – come up with a viable tech business idea in just 2 weeks? If it’s good enough, they’ll get to pitch it to the best-of-the-best, and maybe even get a job out of it. It’s a rollercoaster journey – they’ll crunch code, prototype products, and unleash unique apps. But can they go from digital zeroes to start-up heroes?
Along the way girls are helped by some of the most successful and inspirational people in the UK tech industry - including millionaire entrepreneur and tech-business founder Alex Depledge, who joins Alice and the girls every step of their way.
Episodes
Girls Can Code Episode 1
To prove the world of tech isn't just pizza-munching teenage boys and male masters of the machine universe, our girls take a whirl around London's silicon roundabout in the company of the most powerful women in tech. Fashion, gaming, apps - and digital slap! - the girls learn that making millions in the digital world isn't just about learning ones and zeroes, it's following your passion. And the cash will follow.
But are they up to the challenge of inventing a start-up from scratch in just five days? It's an emotional ride... and it's not just the code that'll crack.
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ScreenerGirls Can Code Episode 2
The girls must take their cutting-edge coding brainwave and learn how to turn it into a prototype product - and a perfect pitch to the great and good of the UK tech world.
If they can convince the cream of the coding world that they've gone from zeroes to heroes in just a week, their lives might just change forever.
But along the way, the girls find out that it's not just about a cool idea: the gloves are off as they learn to code, get down and dirty with big data and - toughest of all - face up to their own fear of failure, when they have to pitch their idea for a digital product.
Who'll come out on top, and who'll blow a fuse?
And as the girls laugh, cry and scream with joy and frustration along the way, they don't know that this is not a rehearsal: their lives could be about to change for real.
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Screener- Series Title : Girls Can Code
- Format : 2 x 60'
- Production company : Nutshell TV
- Year of production : 2015
- Commissioning channels : BBC Three
- Availability : 09/02/2016