{"id":27312,"date":"2014-06-03T19:10:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T19:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kimberly-bryant-who-spent-a-decade-as-an-engineer\/"},"modified":"2014-06-03T19:10:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T19:10:36","slug":"kimberly-bryant-who-spent-a-decade-as-an-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kimberly-bryant-who-spent-a-decade-as-an-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Kimberly Bryant, who spent a decade as an engineer in biotechnology, is the founder of the educational nonprofit Black Girls Code. Gaming has evolved into one of what Ms. Bryant calls the \u201ccore pillars\u201d of Black Girls Code. \u201cWe find that it taps into every element of coding necessary to be a technologist,\u201d she said. \u201cYou have the design, basic computational skills, math.\u201d She favors gaming platforms and languages that are designed to teach coding, like Scratch, Alice and a new platform called Beta.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/01\/opinion\/sunday\/how-to-get-girls-into-coding.html?_r=0&amp;referrer\">How to Get Girls Into Coding &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberly Bryant, who spent a decade as an engineer in biotechnology, is the founder of the educational nonprofit Black Girls Code. Gaming has evolved into one of what Ms. Bryant calls the \u201ccore pillars\u201d of Black Girls Code. \u201cWe find that it taps into every element of coding necessary to be a technologist,\u201d she said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-76w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}