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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.