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  • Best practices to enact in your Dojo to increase the % of girls
  • % of girls currently attending
  • Less than 20%
  • 21-40%
  • More than 40%

  • Keeping peers/friends together

  • Experience-based layout
  • Age-based layout
  • Girls table/space
  • Personalised email invites for Dojo tickets
  • Holding a proportion of tickets for girls
  • Female-friendly Mentor approach
  • Assessing language used to describe Dojo
  • Assessing images used to describe Dojo
  • Content catch-ups with all Mentors before a Dojo
  • Considering content you use
  • Increasing number and leadership input of female Mentors
  • Inviting female guest speakers to your Dojo
  • Avoiding assignment of stereotypical roles and activities
  • Highlighting women in technology throughout history
  • Female Mentors leading a girl’s tables
  • One-off girls events * (include strategies to encourage future attendance)
  • Serial girls events (sequence of five or more sessions e.g. summer-camp-style event)
  • Increasing parent engagement e.g. parent-inclusive event
  • Providing information on careers related to computing

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  • Strongly advised action to take
  • Advisable action to take
  • Positive action to take

  • Positive but not necessary

  • Advised against in this situation

* CoderDojo Scotland found girls-only events to be unproductive in getting girls to attend regular Dojos, although running them did highlight an obvious unmet interest among girls who attended the one-off events.

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