Girls Who Code was founded by Reshma Saujani in 2012 who came up with the idea of creating the organization during her run for the United States Congress when she noticed that schools along her campaign route lacked girls in computer science classrooms [REF].
The organization is sponsored by a number of software and technology companies including AOL, Google, and Microsoft,[REF][REF] and in August 2014 received a $1 million contribution from AT&T [REF].