The young women who want to help shape the future of the tech industry
by Faiz Siddiqui for the Washington Post from Technology | The Guardian on (#J1R0)
Summer camps such as one at Georgetown university in the US aim to encourage more teenage girls into computer coding careers
The group of high school girls sat before a potted plant with wires running down the sides. India Bhalla-Ladd, 15, fiddled with a button on the broadboard, a pegboard for electronic devices. With each press, a different plant type appeared on a black-and-white screen - veggie, flower, and the one she eventually landed on: succulent.
That morning, in a Georgetown University classroom, the toggling device for their project was acting up. They had to troubleshoot a plant.
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