Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done

In GIRL CODE, shy Sophie from New York's Upper West Side and Andy, from a conservative Filipino family in the Bronx, meet at a summer coding program. While Sophie has never coded, Andy is already a coder and a lover of video games. It's an intensive seven weeks that takes the girls in the program from learning simple coding language to fun projects such as building slot machines (one with an Elvis theme). Andy and Sophie team up for a final project and decide to take on a most unexpected theme -- menstruation. Why, the girls ask themselves, is blood acceptable to talk about in the context of guns and violence but a shameful secret when it comes to a girl's period? They create a retro-themed video game called Tampon Run, in which participants shoot tampons not guns at their enemies. The game goes viral, and Sophie and Andy soon find themselves giving interviews to media around the world and being invited to major tech events. Happily, none of this attention goes to their heads, and the girls use what they're seeing and learning to help them make solid choices about their college majors and what will come after.