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App Camp Quiz Compendium: Teaching Girls Coding, Business Skills

App Camp Quiz Compendium IconApp Camp for Girls is an amazing non-profit organization with the goal of teaching 8th or 9th grade girls how to design and code apps. The group has just released its first iPhone app on the iOS App Store, the US$0.99 App Camp Quiz Compendium.

Created by teams attending App Camp for Girls, this fun app brings together 15 separate “personality quizzes” that cover the range from the serious — “In which career would you excel?” — to the silly — “What kind of penguin are you?”.

App Camp Quiz Compendium Screenshot

These quizzes were put together by teams that brainstormed ideas, designed icons and the user interface, and then built the quizzes in Xcode. The teams also made their own marketing swag, then pitched their quiz app to a panel of women investors and entrepreneurs. The resulting quizzes ended up in this app, which was then run through the App Store publishing process. The proceeds from the app will benefit App Camp for Girls.

You can help support the group by purchasing the app, and if your favorite middle-school-aged girl is interested in becoming an app developer, be sure to have her apply to attend a camp. Spots are still open at the camps in Vancouver, BC (July 6-10) and Seattle, WA (July 13-17).

For more information and related stories, check out the OWC Blog’s Women in Tech series.

Steve Sande
the authorSteve Sande
Contributing Author
Steve has been writing about Apple products since 1986, starting on a bulletin board system, creating the first of his many Apple-related websites in 1994, joining the staff of The Unofficial Apple Weblog in 2008, and founding Apple World Today in 2015. He’s semi-retired, loves to camp and take photos, and is an FAA-licensed drone pilot.
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