Thirty nine Western New York girls are on their way to smashing through the glass ceiling of the tech and computer programing industry with the assistance of AT&T, WNY STEM Hub, SUNY Buffalo State and the Girls Scouts of Western New York, which have partnered to create and host the region’s first computer coding program exclusively for girls, It’s Your World! Develop It! Powered by AT&T, to encourage more women to enter the field of technology, specifically coding, an industry that is alarmingly male-dominant.

WNY STEM Hub, SUNY Buffalo State and the Girls Scouts of America Teams up with AT&T to Launch the Region’s First All Girls Coding Program to Close the Tech Gender Gap 

AT&T, WNY STEM Hub, SUNY Buffalo State and the Girls Scouts of Western New York have partnered to create the region’s first computer coding program exclusively for girls, It’s Your World! Develop It! Powered by AT&T, to encourage more women to enter the field of technology, specifically coding, an industry that is alarmingly male-dominant.

Today, Dunkin’ Donuts & Baskin-Robbins Community Foundation (DDBRCF) celebrated National Donut Day with Rich Family Foundation in support of The Salvation Army. The Salvation Army founded National Donut Day in 1938 to pay tribute to “Donut Lassies”, female volunteers, who provided donuts, for soldiers on front lines in WWI. 

The two philanthropic foundations came together to sponsor an event at Rich Product’s Customer Solution Studio to support the mission of The Salvation Army in a fun way. Students from the nearby West Buffalo Charter School were invited to take part in “sweet” contests and creative donut decorating as they learned the importance of giving back to their community through an educational magic show put on by one of Rich’s culinary chefs with help from The Salvation Army.