Bridging the gender digital divide: AI Hackathon with Microsoft supports girls' digital skills

Or so Hesme, aged 15, believed when she switched schools in 10th grade. "I thought I'd be terrible at it", she says. When she moved to Curro Heritage House High School, STEM classes were a regular part of the curriculum. She was nervous about that – but when her brother dared her to take a computer science class, she accepted the challenge to prove him wrong. Hesme loved her computer science class.