Sony Team up with InnovateHer

Sony Interactive Entertainment teams up with InnovateHer in a bid to encourage girls aged between 12 and 16 to consider careers in tech.

20:58 22 October 2019

Sony Interactive Entertainment has teamed up with InnovateHer to bring its 8-week tech programme for teenage girls to more locations around the country. The Digital Bootcamp programme aims to encourage girls aged between 12 and 16 to consider more STEM subjects and careers in tech. 

 

Chelsea Slater, Co-founder of InnovateHer, said: “We’re proud to be working with PlayStation again on our tech programme for girls. The issues we see around the gender pay gap and low numbers of women in the tech community are the culmination of the seeds that get sown early in young women’s academic careers.”

 

“Our mission is to get girls ready for the tech industry, and to get the industry ready for girls, and a huge part of this is challenging the misconception that girls “can’t do” STEM subjects like Computer Science, equally that the STEM industry doesn’t cater for women. That’s why it’s important for us that our programme reaches girls not just locally, but nationally, too, and that it aims to show young women just what opportunities are open to them. Thanks to PlayStation’s support and recognition, we are able to do just that.”