When she learned that women were underrepresented in the computer science industry, Maleah Brady determined she would do something about it.
Brady, a 17-year-old junior at Vestavia Hills High School, was recently awarded the Gold Award by the Girl Scouts for her October workshop to teach a group of middle school girls about various aspects of computer science.
The Gold Award is the highest honor given to Girl Scouts and is only given after 80 hours of work into their project, which comes after the project is approved by a council.
“It was kind of difficult at first,” Brady said.
Along with her aim to provide computer science classes to girls, she also wanted to offer it to students whose own school districts and communities might not have the ability to do something like that on their own, leading her to offer the workshop for students in Woodlawn. Some students also…
