'Girls In Tek' Club Shines At San Ramon's California High School

SAN RAMON, CA — Paige McKindra, a senior at California High School in San Ramon, along with members of her Girls in Tek club, are working to help young people who are underrepresented in the tech industry build a foundation of programming experience.

And their work is pretty amazing.

Paige McKindra is the president of her high school's Girls in Tek club, and earlier this month she helped organize a trip to Google for nearly 100 third-graders from Freedom Elementary, near Watsonville. More recently, she and members of the Girls in Tek club piled into a bus to travel more than 75 miles to the Freedom campus to put on a “Day of Code” for the entire fourth-grade class, according to a report in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

“I realized that this school doesn’t get as many opportunities as my school gets,” McKindra told the Sentinel. “And all these kids, they’re going to grow up and not be able to be as good of software engineers or doctors because they’re not going to have this coding experience when they were little.”

Read the full Santa Cruz Sentinel report to learn more about Paige's efforts.