Founded on the East coast in 2017 by ePlus Technology, GRIT shows middle school girls the possibilities available to them with a career in technology.
"Being able to work with Patagonia, ePlus and other community partners has provided all our girls a networking system to figure out for themselves, 'Hey, I can realize this dream that I have,' and because of what we do here at the school, it really makes the learning relevant. It brings the learning to life," said Carlos Cohen, the principal of DeAnza Academy of Technology and the Arts.
"A bunch of the ladies we have met so far are engineers who work on boats and solve problems and that is something I might want to do in the future and seeing how they do it and what resources they use really helped me," said GRIT participant Gwen Anderson.
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