Along with Chelsea Clinton, Girls Inc., Girl Scouts of the USA, Mindy Kaling, MIT Media Lab, National Center for Women & Information Technology, SevenTeen, TechCrunch and more, Google launched the new initiative on June 19. Since 2010, the company has invested $40 million to inspire girls to code, and Made with Code dedicates $50 million more over the next three years to further these efforts.

A member of Andrea Thomaz's Socially Intelligent Machines Lab, Fitzgerald focuses her research on human-robot interaction and cognitive science, where she codes robots to learn from people, much like how people learn from one another.

The Made with Code program includes:

• Cool introductory Blockly-based coding projects, like designing a bracelet 3D-printed by Shapeways, learning to create animated GIFs, and building beats for a music track.
• Collaborations with organizations like Girl Scouts of the USA and Girls, Inc. to introduce Made with Code to girls in their networks, encouraging them to complete their first coding experience.
• A commitment of $50 million to support programs that can help get more females into computer science, like rewarding teachers who support girls who take CS courses on Codecademy or Khan Academy.