Closing the Gender Gap in Technology | Aakriti Agrawal | TEDxUNO

Closing the technology gender gap through courage and resilience. This talk covers Aakriti's experience teaching girls how to code over the weekends and the skills that young girls need to help close the gap - courage, representation and resilience. Aakriti Agrawal is 24-years-old and moved to the U.S. from Singapore and India in 2012 to study actuarial science at UNL. After graduating college, Aakriti taught herself how to code in numerous languages and began working as a data analyst and front end developer for a healthcare tech startup in Lincoln.
Over the weekends and in the evenings, Aakriti runs a nonprofit called Girls Code Lincoln where they work to close the gender gap by teaching middle school girls how to code. Along with this, Aakriti also volunteers with the local TEDxYouthLincoln conference, and serves on the board for Nebraska Transition College, an educational nonprofit for children with learning differences. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@meganwheeler836]

A topic we should all feel passionate about in the IT community! Great presentation!

[@BrunoVieira13]

What a great talk. Congratulations!!!!!!!!

[@aakritiagrawal8244]

Thanks Bruno!!

[@ca624575]

Brilliant talk!

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[@casperlyngbye5810]

What a frickin' waste of time...