Bay Ridge high schooler pushes other girls to learn programming

Nikita Rau is profiled as an alumnus of Girls Who Code on a personal mission to give other young women the skill to create the Internet they use. She also plays golf, takes photos and likes to draw. She’s a graduate of several different summer coding programs and likes to put the hard sell on fellow students she sees as potential members of her coding clan.

From the article:

Nikita, who grew up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, … got a Google scholarship for a one-week program in Java at NYU, which she found useful but unexciting. Freshman biology, she says, is the moment when she first began to consider a career in the sciences, and when she heard about Girls Who Code, she jumped at it. “We didn’t know too much about the program because it was new,” Kanchan [her mother] says. “But the way she would come home and be so excited about everything that she did.” I ask what had made Nikita that excited in the past. Kanchan looks around, searching for an appropriate comparison. Finally, she finds it: “When we went away someplace and she went zip-lining, she had that look.”

[Fast Company]