The pizza has been cleared away and the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade girls in Mawiayah Fields’ classroom at South Shore School are ready to learn how to write computer code, USA Today reports. But first, a dozen or so volunteers, who have taken time off work to help on this September afternoon, introduce themselves with stories of how they found their professional calling. “I come from a dysfunctional family, so I like to fix things,” Vazjier Rosario, 27, a Microsoft engineer and mother of three, told them…
Laura Ascione is the Editorial Director at eSchool Media. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland's prestigious Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
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