What happens when two tech companies host a workshop for women?

What happens when two tech companies host a workshop for women?

First, you prove that the pipeline problem isn’t as dire as people like to point out. Yeah, we needed a bigger room because over 90 women in the Seattle area signed up for PowerToFly’s workshop to learn to code for Amazon Alexa on Monday.


Below are some photos from the all day event. Scroll through them — but first check out our latest job openings with companies that value gender diversity and inclusion here:

Ladies gather to hear about PowerToFly and how they’re going to learn how to code three skills to go into the Amazon app store.

Paul Cutsinger from Amazon (photo below) taught the hands-on bootcamp.

Want to be the first to find out about our upcoming free coding workshops? Sign up at PowerToFly, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and we’ll keep you updated. Hope to see you at the next one!

Teach them young! Our Head of Customer Success brought her son all the way from DC to help set up the event.

Our Chief Dream Maverick Rachel Valdez takes one of her signature selfies with some of the opening instructions.

Once again (and worth repeating)…. Want to be the first to find out about our upcoming free coding workshops? Sign up at PowerToFly, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and we’ll keep you updated.

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