Girl Develop It is super excited to welcome our newest chapter in Austin, TX. We are huge fans of the Austin technology scene here in New York, and when we heard from Garann Means and saw her awesome website we knew we wanted her to lead the charge. You can her site at http://garann.com and her blog at http://www.garann.com/dev/. Garann is a software developer at Vast.com, and we hear great things about her from the community in Austin. She focuses on JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and general front-end development. 

GDI Austin started classes two weeks ago, and got a great turnout of ladies in the Austin area. Vast sponsored by donating their space, and Garann, assisted by Ashley Renee Price , Patricia Cifra, and Blair Mundy taught two extended HTML/CSS classes. So far the feedback on meetup has been great and they will be scheduling more soon. GDI Austin could really use some TAs to help with classes in the future. If you are interested in helping please reach out to her here.

We asked Garann to comment on her experience so far, and this is what she told us:

“I found the class really inspiring. It was awesome watching people piece things together and make the connections between concepts. Even better was seeing people begin to experiment - testing out different HTML and CSS properties beyond what we had in Alexis’  slides to verify the changes to their pages were what they’d expect. My hope is that we  see some of the same students back for other classes in the future, as they clearly have the makings of good developers.”

 We’re really encouraged to see how much they enjoyed it. It has been our experience here in New York that student relationships and seeing them absorb the content is very rewarding. It’s great to see that happening elsewhere.

 If you are in Austin and interested in taking Girl Develop It classes you can check out the meetup here.