In "The Code Detectives," two middle school girls who love coding use artificial intelligence to solve mysteries. For 17-year-old author Ria Dosha, writing the book series is a way to advocate for increasing diversity within the technology field. "I've brought a diverse cast of characters to life, with the series centering around Ramona Diaz, a powerful young girl of color," says Ria, a student at Cupertino's Monta Vista High School. "The book series gives young girls strong, fictional role models in technology and AI, and introduces them to AI topics in a compelling way, clearing common misconceptions." Ria writes what shoe knows, and vice versa.

Anyone who has recently driven on any portion of Highway 101 between San Jose and San Francisco knows that our roads are increasingly crowded, largely because of the enormous number of people working for Silicon Valley tech companies. Apple, Google, Facebook and Cisco account for about 80,000 local workers, according to Silicon Valley Business Journal, and that doesn't count the thousands more people who work at Microsoft, Tesla, Linked-In, Oracle and other large companies plus the many local startups. And, with a significant number of tech workers choosing to live in San Francisco and the South Bay, traffic flows in both directions. Plus, the Bay Area's staggering home prices have forced many workers, especially those who don't earn six-figure salaries, to live in outlying communities as far away as Modesto where 7.3 percent of workers travel at least 3 hours a day to get to and from work – many to Silicon Valley. Stockton is even higher at 10 percent, according to a 2019 Apartment List study.