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This repo contains the curriculum of Techtonica, a free tech training program for women and non-binary adults with low incomes.
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Advise participants against creating a BMI project for its historical negative implication #2072

Closed daaimah123 closed 3 months ago

daaimah123 commented 3 months ago

Week 5, participants create a game in React. Please add a note to not select the BMI project from the list of React example projects because of its racist and size-ist negative implications.

Page where problem found?

Week 5: Game App in the examples link, under "General guidelines for projects."

Type of problem

Currently the example list contains a suggested application that historically has size-ist and racist negative implications that have negatively impacted or harmed at least one group of the demographics we serve.

Suggested Solution

In keeping with Techtonica's Code of Conduct, we would like to point this out to our participants and actively request that they not create such a game for the purposes of this learning exercise.

AmaanRS commented 3 months ago

I am willing to work on this

AmaanRS commented 3 months ago

Done #2078

daaimah123 commented 3 months ago

Resolved with PR #2080