The program’s founder has been trying to regain access to the STEM education materials, with the goal of transferring them to youth nonprofit Hopeworks.
When global tech organization CompTIA restructured at the end of last year, it quietly dissolved its social impact arm, CompTIA Spark. The dissolution, which has not been previously reported, came alongside the demise of TechGirlz, a STEM education program founded 15 years ago in Philadelphia.
TechGirlz founder Tracey Welson-Rossman is trying to get the curriculum back, she said, but its former parent won’t hand over the open source programming.
“What is upsetting to me is it’s not about TechGirlz,” Welson-Rossman told Technical.ly. “This is about the idea that you can still help. The mission could have continued, and for some reason, something got lost.”
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