This summer, Adobe hosted 100 high school girls in partnership with Girls Who Code, a national nonprofit working to close the gender gap in technology, for a seven-week summer immersion program. The girls who participated learned the basics of coding while creating a network of sisterhood and professional role models – and when we heard they were looking for a partner to help share technical insights with 25 of these young women in San Francisco, we jumped at the opportunity. When I was their age in school, I was passionate about science and math: I loved the challenge of solving problems and seeing the impact of that work. It was a passion that drove me and many of the young women I grew up with in India to pursue engineering in college. But I was surprised at how few women were in my engineering classes when I came to the.