Offering a taste of the hi-tech present while paving a path into a technology-rich future, the national Black Girls Code organization is offering workshops, webinars, and community activities “designed to inspire, educate, and launch the next generation of tech leaders” by teaching computer coding. On Oct. 19, BGC will present its free “Make a Dodgeball Game in Scratch” workshop in Manhattan at Pier 57 (11th Ave. and W. 16th St.), for girls ages 7 to 13. The workshop is open to beginners and those with coding experience. For information and to register for the BGC’s free “Create a Dodgeball Game” session, visit bit.ly/BlackGirlsCodeOctober2024. With chapters across the U.S., the nonprofit BGC works to introduce “young women of color to computer programming and technology skills,” according to its website. The organization — with programs and activities for young women from ages 7 to 25 — has a goal to get 1 million Black girls involved in tech by the year 2040. Part of CGC’s programming is its two-week-long summer camp sessions held in New York, Los Angeles and six other cities across the country — including a camp at historically Black Spellman College in Atlanta. New York’s BGC Summer Camp was held in August, at Manhattan’s University Settlement on the Lower East Side. At the BGC Summer Camps, young women (ages 11 to 18) gain confidence, learn skills, code their own games and develop a sense of involvement in the tech community. With a focus on the future, participants also learn about burgeoning AI technology, and even the impact of climate change. In New York and other selected summer camps, the two-week sessions climax with a “Demo Day” when friends and family members get to see the campers’ final coding projects. For more information, visit the Black Girls Code website at wearebgc.org. Hope, Change & Shirley Promoting education, advocacy and the legacy of forward-thinking politician Shirley Chisholm globally, a gathering of committed institutions met in New York recently to celebrate her achievements and create “space for hope and change” among world leaders during the recent annual General Assembly meeting at the United Nations, and beyond. Shirley ChisholmDon Hogan Charles / New York Times Co. / Getty ImagesPolitician and educator Shirley Chisholm (Don Hogan Charles / New York Times Co. / Getty Images) The Shirley Chisholm Cultural Institute, in partnership with the Office of the Consul General of Barbados and Austria-based Salzburg Global Seminar held the event late last month at the Permanent Mission of Barbados to the U.N.. “We celebrate not only her achievements, but also the ideals that she championed equality, access, and the belief that everyone deserves a voice in the political arena,” said Lorenzo Harewood, Barbados Consul General to New York. Born in Brooklyn to immigrants from Guyana and Barbados, Chisholm — the first Black U.S. Congresswoman and the first woman to vie for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination — had her early education on Barbados. For more information, visit shirleychisholminstitute.org  and salzburgglobal.org. Visit the Barbados Consulate in New York’s website at foreign.gov.bb. Guyana’s Eco-lodges “The 30 urban eco-lodges at Great Diamond, East Bank Demerara are ready to accommodate you,” recently boasted Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali while touting the nation’s first state-of-the-art, fully-furnished urban eco-lodges. The eco-lodges, located near the Guyana National Stadium in Providence, were designed by DuraVilla Homes under Guyana’s Ministry of Housing, and are made from sustainably harvested building materials from the nation’s forests. In addition to the local building materials, 100% Guyanese labor was used in the project that’s designed to expand the country’s housing and tourism sectors. The site will be accessible to essential services when a new four-lane highway and a new regional East Bank corridor hospital are completed.