Over 60 participants, 17 teams and two days of marathon computer programing -- and they're all girls of color under the age of 18.

 

This past weekend, Black Girls CODE, a nonprofit that teaches coding to girls from underserved communities, hosted its first ever hackathon.

"One of the biggest obstacles to black girls getting into tech is lack of exposure," said biotechnologist and engineer Kimberly Bryant, who founded Black Girls CODE in 2011. "We don't see many role models for our girls to emulate. We see mostly white males at the top of the STEM fields."
In fact, black women are only 2% of the United States' science and engineering workforce, while white men comprise 51%, according to the National Science Foundation. Google (GOOG) brought tech's diversity issues into the spotlight last week, when it reported that just 30% of its employees are women and 2% are black.
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