Give motivated women in your organisation the opportunity to become intrapreneurs, while being taught coding, product management and business development. Ready your organisation for the future. Give your valued employees the opportunity to be educated in emerging technologies, lean startup methodologies and agile development. Empower your people to think big, take risks and make a difference in your company, in their career and in the world.

1. WOMEN IN TECH
Champions for Change Scholarship Program - by Coder Factory
Give motivated women in your organisation the opportunity to become intrapreneurs, while being taught coding, product
management and business development.
Ready your organisation for the future. Give your valued employees the opportunity to be educated in emerging
technologies, lean startup methodologies and agile development. Empower your people to think big, take risks and make a
difference in your company, in their career and in the world.

2. Top 4 Reasons to be a Champion for Change
FRESH IDEAS FOR THE FUTURE OF YOUR COMPANY
Tap into the ideas already in the heads of your employees.
IMPROVE DIVERSITY IN TECHNOLOGY ROLES
Reward your high potential female employees with an opportunity to give their career a boost.
EMPOWER VALUED EMPLOYEES
Invigorate your business by empowering your employees with knowledge of coding and technology.
NEW TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS
Stimulate innovation throughout the business with a forward thinking program driven by women.

3. Outcomes for program
graduates.
1. New skills, knowledge and experiences to
supercharge their career.
2. Collaborate with colleagues from different
parts of the business.
3. Think like an entrepreneur, looking for
business opportunities by solving customer
and business problems with technology.
4. Understanding of technology and the ability
to build web applications.
5. Confidence and fellowship.
Program details
PROGRAM FORMAT
12 weeks part time. 8 hours of class each week. Ideally,
participants will be given one work day off each week
to attend class.
TEACHERS & MENTORS
Program teachers are experienced coders and
specialists in their respective fields. It is expected that
senior employees from your company will give some
time to mentor students.
IDEAL STUDENTS
The ideal student is ambitious, intelligent and driven.
Being passionate about technology and the ability to
take risks is advantageous.
CHOOSING SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
An application and interview process to enable Coder
Factory and stakeholders to choose the best
candidates.

4. Education Plan
Week Technology
5-6 hours per week
Entrepreneurship
2-3 hours per week
1 Programming fundamentals Emerging technology in retail and business
2 Web design, internet and databases Lean startup methodology and innovating business
models
3 Intro to web application development with Ruby on
Rails - part 1
Identifying problems worthy of solving with technology
4 Intro to web application development with Ruby on
Rails - part 2
Validation of ideas using customer development
techniques
5 Begin building class application
Authentication, data relationships
Personas and wireframes
6 Agile development, developer tools Metrics
7 Payment systems
APIs
Pitching your idea to stakeholders and potential
customers
8 Deployment
Infrastructure
Social media strategies, digital marketing, growth
hacking
9 Begin building final project Product management.
Working with developers
10 Optimisation, search engines Usability testing
11 Introduction to testing. Debugging techniques Pitch preparation
12 The future of technology Final pitch of applications to management

5. Who is Coder Factory?
Coder Factory is a technology and
entrepreneurship college for business owners and
professionals.
Participants in our programs come to us from
many different backgrounds and careers. They
are motivated, driven individuals with ideas to
make improvements in their work, the businesses
they run (or work for) and solve problems for the
communities they live in.
Coder Factory’s experienced educators are
passionate about technology and the power it
gives those who understand it and can create it.
Suggested sequence of events
1. Workshop with stakeholders
2. Promote scholarship internally and invite
applications
3. Scholarship applicants are interviewed
4. Awardees are chosen and announced
5. Education commences
6. Visits from mentors and specialists
7. Final pitches and graduation event
8. Program review
Your move! Make it happen.
Contact Coder Factory directly to make this happen in your workplace.
Phone: 1300 884 095 (if in Australia). Outside Australia: (+61) 2 9016 5360
Email: pete@coderfactory.com
Website: https://coderfactory.com