Lincoln School Girls Who Code team places third in App contest

PROVIDENCE – A five-girl team from Lincoln School, known as the Rhapsodians, earned third place for their app – “Rhapsocks!” – in the Samsung Mobile App Challenge.
The app is designed to turn texts, notes and study guides into fun songs and raps to help students remember important information. The girls are part of the Middle School Girls Who Code Club; they competed with more than 2,000 girls from across the country in the challenge.
The team includes Maia Carty, Sasha Floru, Amiya Mandapati, Dounya Bilal, all from the class of 2020, and Grace Boghosian, from the class of 2019.
Each team member will receive a $100 gift certificate for their winning submission.
The contest was sponsored by Samsung Mobile and Girls Who Code.
Girls Who Code members were challenged to design and code a mobile app that addresses a need in their school or community.

Girls Who Code, a non-profit organization that aims to inspire, educate and equip girls with the computing skills to pursue 21st century opportunities, partners with schools and other community-based organizations across the country to offer computer science education and technology industry exposure to 6th through 12th grade girls throughout the academic year.
Head of School Suzanne Fogarty was committed to starting Girls Who Code clubs at Lincoln, a private, college preparatory school.
Director of Technology and clubs instructor Doug Alexander said that “there’s more at stake than just teaching girls to program. It’s also about correcting an imbalance in the world of technology and adding the perspective of young women to the mix. They think about different problems and approach them in different ways, but if they don’t learn these high-tech skills they may never get the opportunity to show how coding can help solve those problems.”
“The Lincoln School community is extremely proud of the Rhapsodians’ third place finish in the Samsung Mobile App Challenge and all their coders for their excellent submissions only a few short months into the Girls Who Code curriculum,” the school stated in a news release.
First place went to the musiklearners at Erie Middle School in Colorado that helps children of all abilities learn concepts through sound and music, and second place went to Major Crossroads at the University of Washington for their app to help the large number of first generation college students from their area.

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