GE empowers students within "Girls Are Coding" initiative to accelerate digital transformation in Turkey

With the goal to accelerate digital transformation in Turkey and contribute to the development of future women engineers, GE provided a basic programming training course for 100 school girls aged 9 to 11 years as part of the initiative "Girls are Coding" at Turkey Innovation Center on June 13th and 14th. Two-hour training sessions organized as part of "Girls are Coding" were provided by a team of teachers consisting of computer engineers and IT technologies teachers working for Robincode. Thirty successful students were entitled to attend a summer school involving 16-hour training in total over the course of two weeks. Developing their algorithm skills by learning IT technologies, Internet Security, Digital Citizen and Basic Coding, school girls were registered at Cisco Networking System and had an opportunity to receive an online "Get Connected" course and certificate free-of-charge; to register for the training sessions to be organized for "Hour of Code" Turkey and receive support; and to be part of a global initiative. Canan M. Özsoy, President & CEO, GE Turkey said, "Pursuing its commitment to become the largest digital industrial company in the world as it set five years ago, GE established GE Digital last year by taking the required actions. In line with this vision, our priorities include leading digital transformation in the world and preparing new generations for the future's business world”.