Model Karlie Kloss Wants to Send Young Girls to School to Learn How to Code

Karlie Kloss has teamed up with a school to give 20 young girls the chance to learn how to code.

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Model and former Victoria's Secret Angel Karlie Kloss is launching a new scholarship fund that will enable young girls to learn how to code. The scholarship fund starts this summer with 20 high school girls receiving free tuition to the Flatiron School's Software Engineering course. 

The full-time course is a pre-college introduction to coding in which participants create an app over two weeks. "If one girl leaves the course inspired to keep learning code, I’ll be happy," Kloss told BuzzfeedThe model added, "It doesn’t matter if you’re a fashion model or high school student, understanding code is so important because it’s the language that runs our world! Young women are shaping the world we live in and code is a tool for us to continue to have a big voice and say in our future." 

Kloss is a coding-enthusiast who spends her spare time picking up the skill at the very same school she's partnered with for the scholarship. She has posted videos on Instagram of her controlling a drone via code, and recently spoke at SXSW about the way technology affects the fashion industry. 

Kloss also recently decided not to renew her contract with Victoria's Secret in order to pursue an education at NYU. She's set to attend the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and although she told Vogue she doesn't know what she'll study, it wouldn't be a surprise if it incorporated coding. 

Watch Kloss announce the scholarship below, where she hints that you might see her in class. Welp, this is probably the first time most of us are bummed we aren't high school girls. Those who are eligible, though, can apply here

Beauty and brains, this is why we love Kloss. 

 

[via Buzzfeed]

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