Brooklyn girls learn how to code, create apps
Teens learn tech tools in immersion program
Anah Lewi, a 16-year-old from East Flatbush, is part of a team developing an app that any woman will be sure to love. Called “Fit Me,” the app takes your clothing size and translates it into comparable sizes sold in stores so that you can determine what size dress would look good on you when you shop in a particular store.
“If you’re a size 10, the clothes in one store might fit you, but in another store, you might be an 8 or maybe a 12, because the sizes run so different,” Anah told the Brooklyn Eagle. “Our app tells you what size you are in different stores.”
Anah, a student at the Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design, worked on the app as part of a summer program for female students sponsored by AT&T. The AT&T Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program gave 20 lucky young women the opportunity to learn all about coding and to put what they learned to practical use. “The app still needs work, but we’re getting there,” said Anah, who added that she found it exciting to learn the algorithms.