Philly nonprofit TechGirlz, the principal organization in local STEM education for middle-school girls founded in 2010, announced Tuesday it will be acquired by Chicago-based Creating IT Futures, a nonprofit arm of IT trade organization CompTIA.

The news come just shy of TechGirlz’ first decade working to increase gender equity in tech. To date, the organization exposed 15,000 girls to careers in technology through interactive workshops, which have been taught in over a dozen states. Its online workshop contents have also been taught by volunteers abroad.

TechGirlz founder Tracey Welson-Rossman, the longtime CMO of Fort Washington, Pa.-based software firm Chariot Solutions known as a booster of women in tech, called the news a cause for celebration.

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