“My cousin fell out a window. My cousin died in a fire. I wear a size 8.”

It’s the ice breaker after a beginner coding session, and Sabrina is challenging a bunch of other girls to guess the one false statement she made.

“Why you lying?” a friend on her right quips, forcing Sabrina to finally admit, after a hearty chuckle, “I wear a size 10.”

For two Saturdays in July, the girls — who all live in affordable housing residences in D.C. — have gathered inside a computer lab at Greenleaf Gardens, the sprawling affordable D.C. Housing Authority (DCHA) complex in Southwest D.C., to create websites about the coolest things they know of.

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