This was a very interesting read, it hit home and I wish I had been given this opportunity. My own story of being 15 and showing ability for programming? 'uh, t

This was a very interesting read, it hit home and I wish I had been given this opportunity. My own story of being 15 and showing ability for programming? 'uh, the computer room is full of boys'. Don't underestimate the power of needing to be around your own gender as a teenager, or at least, the disturbance of being around just the other gender in an elective class. I'm sure some of you had similar experiences being male. I also regret not taking shop and car repair classes for the same reason - I didn't start coding again until in my early 20s when the passion to build kicked in after graduating with an arts degree where other women were around me also building things.