Native Girls Code (NGC) is a Seattle-based program that focuses on providing computer coding skills with grounding in traditional Indigenous knowledge for Native American girls aged 12 to 18 through workshops, coaching, teaching and role modeling.
[1][2] Native Girls Code is organized by the nonprofit organization Na'ah Illahee Fund (Mother Earth in the Chinook language), in partnership with the University of Washington Information School[3] and the Washington NASA Space Consortium, as a way to support and perpetuate traditional knowledge, build leadership of women and encourage greater participation of Native American students in STEM fields.
[4] For example, NGC has organized workshops that combined traditional storytelling with robotics projects.
[1] Google has been a major funder of the program and Facebook has donated laptops and filming equipment to NGC.
[3] In 2023, the Seattle Foundation awarded a grant to NGC through its Neighbor to Neighbor (N2N) program, which supported development of a digital kiosk about the history of the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center in Seattle.