Tech Savvy Girls

Eighteen SisterMentors girls spent May, 2004 in technology workshops learning how to build a simple Web site. Girls 12 to 15 years old from middle and high schools in Alexandria, Virginia and Prince George's County, Maryland, learned HTML (hypertext markup language), the computer code used to create Web pages.

But the workshops did not just stop at HTML, girls also learned to do sophisticated searches for text and images using search engines, copy multiple files simultaneously, execute commands from the keyboard instead of from the pull down menu and use the left and right clicks on the mouse.

The excitement and enthusiasm were palpable in the room as the girls used their imagination and creativity to choose colors and write text for their Web pages.

Here are some of the Web pages our girls created: