{"id":95118,"date":"2021-08-10T09:26:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=95118"},"modified":"2021-08-12T11:24:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:24:50","slug":"from-the-other-side-of-the-world-girl-in-kenya-learns-computer-coding-at-uwm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/from-the-other-side-of-the-world-girl-in-kenya-learns-computer-coding-at-uwm\/","title":{"rendered":"From the other side of the world, girl in Kenya learns computer coding at 51ÁÔÆæ"},"content":{"rendered":"
The pandemic and a year of virtual schooling had an unexpected benefit for a little girl in Kenya who connected with Girls Who Code at 51ÁÔÆæ.<\/p>\n
\u201cI use the computer for school, and I wanted to understand more about how they work,\u201d said Elsie Maingi, who is 10 years old and lives in Nairobi.<\/p>\n
However, computer classes in Kenya were geared to high school students and business people and were usually quite expensive, said her mother, Lilian Wangechi.<\/p>\n