The Girl’s Programming Club (GPC) is a community of female students who are interested in coding and explores creative ways to approach problems. The GPC was founded in 2018. During the past 4 years, students learned and utilized their knowledge in CS to complete several interesting projects. Last schoolyear, the GPC developed several games, calculators, as well as web-apps, which included the Monopoly boardgame, a mine-sweeping game, double Tic-Tac-Toe, Whac-A-Mole, and an Advanced Calculator that included functions such as calculating Boolean expressions and derivatives displayed in the form of a website. Other than the projects, the GPC also teaches students advanced algorithms and mathematics. They attained high scores in competitions such as USACO and ACSL.

Following the previous schoolyear, the GPC continued to participate in the Club Fair this semester. The GPC exhibited the games they developed. Meanwhile, members also prepared activities such as sudoku, magic cubes, and CS trivia, hoping to increase students’ interest in computer science and popularize their club. In addition, the GPC hosts a public social media account that continuously updates their activities and events. This year, they anticipate to finish developing a classroom-booking mini-app to make students’ campus life much easier and announce it at a grade assembly by mid-November. Another mini-app to help students order lunch is also currently in progress.

Future club activities include learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for web development. They hope to use what they learned to build a bigger project. In the future, club members will use their official WeChat account more to release related articles, and they look forward to collaborating with the school magazine. Also, they are planning to make T-shirts, hoodies, and hats to increase people’s interests in programming.

(Written by 12(8) Sophia Zhu, 10(4) Yuting Zhu    Pictures by Girl’s Programming Club   Supervised by Meijun Shi    Reviewed by Qian Zuo)