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Imagine An Engineer. Are You Thinking Of A Dude? Is He White? Here’s How To Change That.

The tech industry is facing twin challenges right now: Companies can’t find enough qualified engineers to fill vacancies, and those they can find tend overwhelmingly to be white and male. This program aims to solve both those problems — and is having a ton of success.

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