Meet the woman who won over Google, Apple and Intel to get more girls into tech via CNBCMakeIt
In a small village four hours outside of Bolivia's capital, La Paz, there exists a community with no currency and little access to technology.They were put there by a group of ten Bolivian teenage girls who wanted to make the hours-long walk to school a little more fun for local children.
Not withstanding their impressive accomplishment, they are far from unique. They're just a handful of the billions of women and girls who have been hindered from developing STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — skills as a result of gender, geography and finances. In the last 13 years, Chklovski has made it her mission to rectify that imbalance, giving up her studies to develop Iridescent's training programs for students — especially girls and mothers — particularly in emerging countries.
"By partnering with Iridescent in programs like Technovation and the AI Family Challenge, we know that we are contributing to the development of a qualified, diverse STEM workforce who will be the innovators and leaders of tomorrow," added Hina Baloch, STEM education lead at General Motors, another of Iridescent's partners.
"The hook is that you're educating the child, but the mothers don't realize that they're also learning," said Chklovski.
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