THURSDAY 5 MARCH 2020The tech classes igniting a love
for coding in girls
Cypher CEO Elizabeth Tweedale talks to Zlata Rodionova about
breaking the boys’ club with her creative workshops
Computer love: more than 1,000 kids have signed up (Cypher)
Arguments over screen times and devices have become a constant source of conflict between parents and
their children. Yet, Elizabeth Tweedale, the founder and CEO of Cypher, a start-up which offers creatively
themed coding courses for children aged 5 to 14, thinks we need to put things into perspective.
As an entrepreneur, a computer scientist and a mother of three, she’s passionate about making sure that the
future generation understands the language of technology and the power of coding. In fact, her 11-year-old
son Jaeden already runs his own online shop selling a variety of trinkets, from Pokemon cards to