A Girl Who Codes

Computing has always been a boys' club. How 18–year–old Nikita Rau––and other young women like her––are finally changing that.

Nikita Rau is a high school senior and, at this moment, drinking applekiwi–strawberry juice out of a plastic cup. We're in the cafeteria of Bronx High School of Science, in New York. The noise level is high––too high for older ears––but the kids seem excited. Or maybe frenzied would be a better word.

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