According to Parentology, nonprofit Computing Minds was founded by 16 year old Juliette Palacios who wanted to encourage girls to pursue coding. 

There’s a wide disparity when it comes to females versus males in the world of computer coding: 8% of current computer developers are women and 92% are male. Statistics like these are not lost on 16-year-old Juliette Palacios, who founded the nonprofit Computing Minds, which aims to inspire and educate girls in computer science careers.