South Bay High School Student Creates TechPower4All To Bring More Girls, Low-Income Students Into Tech

CBS San Francisco

July 19, 2023

A lack of diversity in coding classes inspired a teenager in the South Bay to start exposing more girls and students from low-income backgrounds to pathways in the tech industry. Her work has already reached hundreds of children and teens in multiple countries even before she graduates from high school.

"The passion for technology is not just something that we just need to address when people are in the workforce, it's something that's important from a young age to address." said 16-year-old Radhika Goyal a high school student and the founder of TechPower4All. "What motivated me was the mission of trying to tackle this barrier to entry problem from early on."

When she was in eighth grade, she saw a flyer for a coding club and decided to join. Goyal was disappointed to see that in a room of 30 students, she was the only girl. But she kept pursuing an education in technology both in school and on her own time, giving her the confidence with the help of teachers and adult mentors to create TechPower4All.

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