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Back now with a closer look at the tech industry and a new push to bring more Latinas into the workforce that has the biggest tech companies taking notice. Morgan Bradford has more.

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For these high school and middle school students in Austin, Texas. Ready to go. The gears are turning.

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So these are robots that you.

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All build? Yes, yes. All thanks to a nonprofit called Latinitas, which teaches tech skills like coding and engineering through camps and after school clubs like this one. Hoping to close the ethnic and gender gap in technology.

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Do you all see a lot of Latinas in tech? Do you think people expect to see Latinas in tech? No. No? Why not?

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Because they see more guys instead of girls, especially Latinas.

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Even though Hispanic workers make up 17% of all employees, just 8% are working in Stem Fields, and only 3% of those workers are Hispanic women.

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We're hearing from students who didn't know that these careers were possible.

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Students like Camila Gorines, who attended their co-chica camp just three years ago. Now she's studying computer science in college and earning a living with a job in information technology.

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Somebody has told me that I couldn't make it in this field, and I remember telling my mom about it.

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Okay, so let me just back this up. You wanted to do computer science? Yes. And someone.

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Told you? That I wasn't able to do it.

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Because?

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For who I am as a person and also for being a woman.

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What did you think when you met other Latinas who were doing coding, who were doing robotics?

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Seeing women like me, Latinitas, it was so inspiring. It made me just want to keep doing computer science.

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And keep cracking the code to create a tech future for everyone. Morgan Bradford, BBC News, Austin.

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