Before University

Girls’ Programming Network (GPN)

The Girls’ Programming Network (GPN) is a program developed and run by female IT students at the University of Sydney for high school girls interested in IT, particularly learning or improving their software design and development skills.

During the term, girls will learn to program in Python. Projects have included creating games, and this year the students tackled chatbots - building programs which can chat to you, starting from simple bots which act like small children and ask too many questions, progressing to more complex bots which learn how to talk from everything you say to it.

Girls will be able to learn at their own pace and level while working one-on-one with tutors.

Attending GPN is a great way for students to improve programming skills for the HSC Software Design and Development (SDD) course as the tutors will cover the programming related syllabus topics while teaching programming in Python. GPN will also prepare you for the National Computer Science School (NCSS) over summer and the NCSS Challenge which runs in Term 3.

GPN is also a unique opportunity to meet new friends with similar interests, find mentors, and find out about university life.

More information on the Girls’ Programming Network »