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‘It’s super fun’: Coding sessions for 4th through 8th grade girls in Montana kickoff

September 19, 2025/

Ever wish there was an app where you could make an ice cream sundae with cherries and sprinkles? Well, it exists, and it was designed by middle schoolers.

“I also made an ice cream shop,” said Thea Norstrand, showing her app. “This one, you would get to, like, use the code to create different types of ice cream and there’d be, like, different challenges.”

Thea Norstrand is a seventh grader who’s been part of Code Girls United going on three years.

 

By: Esha Walia


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