--- title: Karlie Kloss Offers Coding Scholarship for Girls description: "I think it's crucial that young women learn to code as early as possible to ensure that we have a voice in what the world looks like." canonical: https://time.com/3815575/karlie-kloss-coding-scholarships/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-09T17:10:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:45:17.637Z og:title: Karlie Kloss Offers Coding Scholarship for Girls og:description: "I think it's crucial that young women learn to code as early as possible to ensure that we have a voice in what the world looks like." og:url: https://time.com/3815575/karlie-kloss-coding-scholarships/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Karlie Kloss Offers Coding Scholarship for Girls twitter:description: "I think it's crucial that young women learn to code as early as possible to ensure that we have a voice in what the world looks like." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Karlie Kloss Is Giving Scholarship to Girls Who Want to Learn to Code > Sponsored content. 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A program is trying to address low employment rates of women in the technology industry by attacking the issue at its source: Education. 'Girls Who Code' teaches young women computer science, in order to reverse the decline of women in the field._  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Apr 9, 2015 5:10 PM UTC  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Apr 9, 2015 5:10 PM UTC Karlie Kloss may be best-known in the fashion world, but she’s trying to make an impact on the tech world, too. The supermodel, who took coding classes last summer and has since become an advocate for teaching young women computer programming, has launched a partnership with the Flatiron School in New York to create the [Kode with Karlie scholarship](http://precollege.flatironschool.com/kode-with-karlie#scholarship-details) for 20 girls, ages 13 to 18. Teens interested in the two-week summer program can submit a 60-second video explaining why they would like to learn to code in the same classes that Kloss took. At present, only 12% of computer science degrees go to women. But by 2020, U.S. universities won’t be able to fill even a third of the country’s 1.4 million computing positions with qualified graduates. The [obvious solution](http://time.com/3062885/girls-who-code-google-facebook/) for industry leaders like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates (who back the nonprofit coding education site [Code.org](http://code.org/)) is to teach more American children—especially girls—to code. Other advocates like Rashma Saujani and Kimberly Bryant have founded camps and programs [Girls Who Code](https://girlswhocode.com/) and [Black Girls Code](http://www.blackgirlscode.com/) to try to close the gender gap by capturing girls’ interest at a young age. Now, Kloss is using her popularity with young female fans to hopefully accomplish the same goal. “Code is only going to continue to play a major role in defining our future,” says Kloss in a promo video. “I think it’s crucial that young women learn to code as early as possible to ensure that we as young women have a voice and a stake in what the world looks like.” **MORE:** [_Cracking the Girl Code: How to End the Tech Gender Gap_](http://time.com/3062885/girls-who-code-google-facebook/) ## Transcript When I thought about coding I felt like nerd. Guy. Impossible. Isolated. Inaccessible. Boring. Not for me. It is sad that those are the words that I would associate with coding. Which is why I'm really happy that I had this opportunity to change such a stereotype mind. [ UNKNOWN ] Coding has always been really foreign, and it's, I've been told, I guess by male guys, like, oh Riya, you're going to be a doctor, like I guarantee you're not going to be a good coder. Someone said that to me before I started this program. And I told them well, I'm gonna prove you wrong. [ MUSIC ] In 2010 I was running for office and would visit schools. And would see 100 boys in a robotics lab and then one girl in the basement of the church at a school in Queens using a computer that was 10 years old. And as we're becoming more digitally engaged, and as technology has become more prestigious, we are pushing women out. And I wanted to do something about it, and that's why I started Girls Who Code. [ MUSIC ] In the back of my mind, I've always wanted to learn how to code, but for some reason like I was too scared. to code. Working in class of like 19 guys. So when I saw that it was like girls who code, I immediately like, this is what I wanted to do over the summer. So, Grace Hopper is responsible is for all of programming. That's woman. Coding is like learning how to read or write. It's being able to take an idea in your head and put it down and make it into. Into something real. There's very few subject where a girl can come in knowing nothing and when she leaves she can say I can solve this problem. I mean, that's empowering. You're creating your own puzzle using several puzzle pieces. And you try to put it together to create your own pattern. It requires a lot of creative thinking and a lot of, I guess, motivation. You know, you have to keep pushing forward. Like, right now we're working on a game. And we have been trying to get this the one button to work for the past half an hour. And once I figured out what, what went wrong and once I solved the problem, I was so happy and so excited that I could do this. And I could solve the problem. And I could make it better. [ MUSIC ] Computer sciences needs to disrupted because it's not just women. It's, you know, Latinos and African Americans and just all different kinds of people. People who like sports should be taking more computer science and, you know, and they're not. I think what Girls Who Code is trying to do is disrupt the way that computer science is taught. We ask all of our girls to build a project. And when I looked at what they wanted to build. They wanted to build an algorithm to help detect false positives in breast cancer. Testing. They wanted to build a product to help fight obesity because a family member was obese. I would love to be in [ UNKNOWN ] and I think Cody has the ability to change any surgeon operates in terms of prosthetics or transplant. I mean, these are the problems that they wanna solve and that's why it's so important because we don't even know what solutions. 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