AkiraChix Class of 2017 Kick Off!
After rigorous and competitive selection, 21 girls joined this year's training program cohort on January 9th, 2017 Orientation was conducted [...]
Sign up for November Dev & Genius Skwad Camps!
We’re excited to announce that AkiraChix will be hosting coding camps for primary and high school students this November during [...]
On Transitions and New Beginnings
It’s been six years and seven months since I was a part of the AkiraChix story. When we started AkiraChix [...]
Powerful lessons on mentorship: A recap of the 2016 Mentorship pairing exercise
(Guest Blog post by Judy Alice King'ori, 2016 Mentor) Akirachix held a mentorship pairing exercise, dubbed "speed mentoring" on 9th [...]
It’s time to hop onto the Geek Girl Festival 2016 train!
In less than 10 days, AkiraChix will be hosting it’s fourth annual Geek Girl Festival, on Saturday 23rd April 2016. [...]
April 2016 Kids Tech and Arts Camp: Week 1 recap
Last week, we kicked off our April 2016 Kids Tech and Arts Camp with a bunch of eager students and [...]
First Semester down, two more to go for the AkiraChix training program!
This journey began in October 2015(as it does every year). We received more than 60 applications, and successfully recruited 16 [...]
Join us for Geek Girl Festival 2016, hosted by AkiraChix
It’s that time of year again, when we bring together high school girls from across the country for a day [...]
Connecting with AkiraChix Training Program Alumni
In the last six years of AkiraChix’s existence, we have graduated 89 girls, and one boy from the AkiraChix training [...]
Kicking off the 2016 Mentorship Program
One of the recommendations that came out of a study AkiraChix conducted(Attitudes and motivations for women using technology & entering [...]