SpriteBox

Meg Gallagher is a software engineer at Walmart Technology, and her path to this career was not a typical one. She graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in clinical dietetics and spent her first few years after college helping patients with nutritional risks and deficiencies. Though she loved working with patients, she started learning …

Nonstop Fountain

Elizabeth Ruedas is a surface water engineer for Michael Baker International. She has a passion for civil engineering and works with land developers and local business owners to develop projects that take into account the engineering, science, and environmental aspects of surface water. Ruedas is an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Orange County Past …

Hour of Code

Sarika graduated in 2019 from UT Austin with a bachelor's in Linguistics and a minor in Computer Science. Sarika knew she wanted to pursue linguistics, the study of human language and communication, when she took an introductory class offered at her high school. In college, she learned to combine her passion for studying language with …

Water Clock

Maryam Mirzakhani grew up wanting to be a writer, but she fell in love with math in high school. During her junior year, Mirzakhani and her best friend became the only Iranian women to qualify for the International Mathematical Olympiad. She won the gold medal both times she attended this competition and received a perfect …