 It's The Cube. Here is your host, Jeff Frick. Hi, Jeff Frick here with The Cube. We are on the ground in Santa Clara, California at the Anita Board Women of Vision Awards, and we are joined in this next segment by a student of vision award finalist, Camila Ashuti, from Brazil. Welcome. Yeah, thank you for this opportunity to talk with you all. Absolutely. So, we talked a little bit before, you're a master's student at the University of Sao Paulo. I'm guessing computer science? Yeah, computer science. Yeah, we have a major program that it's mixed like with education and computer science. Okay. So, how did you get here? How did you hear about this awards? How did you hear about Anita Borg and what's going on here? I attended the last Grace Hopper conference and it was like, oh Jesus, it's a life-changing experience. And then I decided to join the award and I sent my video and I'm here. So what was your video? Yeah, it was about the three pillars that I believe that are going to change the world and I'm trying to work on them. And yeah, the first one, it's content because I think in Brazil we have a problem that sometimes CS, it's not important because they don't know the power of these. You can definitely reach thousands of people without moving your feet. It's just like you stay in your home and you can change the world. So, the first one, it's the content. The next one, it's education. In Brazil we have a problem because just like not just rich people but poor people had not, they can't study, like have a good study. So we have public universities but just the rich people can join this kind of college. So I'm trying to teach everybody what's computer science, math, STEM in general. And the last one, it's about the college. Like I really want to make girls that are already in college and people that are already in college be more prepared to receive these women in the market, like know how to manage, how to welcome these amazing girls that are growing up and joining the workforce. Right, because I think when you were talking a little bit off camera, you said when you entered your first CS class you realized there weren't a lot of other women. Yeah, I grew it up listening to my dad, dictating cobalt code. So for me it was like, oh Jesus, it's an amazing language that solves problems, like programming for me was this. But when I joined the college I realized like, uh oh, I'm the only girl in this class and this is not okay, I don't want to be all these amazing things alone. So I started a blog, I started a program to teach girls how to program and it was an amazing journey, like I think I found my path. That's great, it's super great that you found your passion obviously, you're really enthusiastic. So then what are you going to do? Are you going to go into a career programming? Are you going to stay in the education path to try to spread the word? Kind of what's your plan after you pick up the award tonight? Yeah, I really don't know. I'm trying, like I'm 23 and I had an amazing experience as a software engineer intern at Google and it was like crazy. I realized that, oh Jesus, this is so powerful and I can make code, like really good code and like reach a lot of people, but in the other hand, like in Brazil, I'm traveling around Brazil to teach girls that have no idea about what is an app in Amazon jungle for example and it's a crazy experience and I'm loving. So maybe I will, I don't know, teach in a college or in a small school in the middle of the jungle, I don't know, I'm just trying. So what was it that gave you the love? Was it your dad and just kind of growing up around the language of code or was there any particular moment where you thought, oh this is what I just love? I think it was, my big influence was my dad because I remember when I was like five years old, I just woke up like listening to him dictating code and I said, oh everybody, it's thinking this is so cool and it's a really strange language, I need to know and be part of this secret group that solves problems. So I decided to join Computer Science College in the University of Sao Paulo because it was a public college so we were able to effort with the costs because it's not really cheap to study in Brazil so I decided to join the CS program and I'm really glad that I made this choice. Excellent. And how long to get your master's, how close are you to finishing? Just one year more and the bachelor degree is just for years in Brazil and then I decided to come here, I did my internship and then I came back to Brazil and decided to join the master program to study a little bit more about education, about how to teach girls a little bit more about how to introduce Python for example for kids that have no idea about what is math and it's an amazing journey, I'm loving it. So how do you get a little kid who knows nothing about Python excited about programming? What are the tricks and tips that you've used that really reach the kids? I think the secret is to make it easy in the beginning like for example we use App Inventor that it's a tool that helps us to make like in three hours for example in a three hours workshop you can start like from the problem to the app like you can program an app and have this in your cell phone and go home like oh I built this and this is so cool look mom, father and I think this is the main trick like make it easy in the beginning so they can find the purpose and then the next steps that are not really easy they can just overcome like easily because they have a purpose in their lives. Okay so we're getting to the end here I want to give you the last word what advice would you give since you're not the educator you're getting young people excited what advice would you give to people that are considering should I go into CS I looked in the doorway there's no other women in the class what would you tell them I think you need to keep in mind that you are changing the world I always say that I want to change the world one girl at a time I always feel that when I am educating a girl I'm educating the whole family they are like making beauty so I think they need to keep in mind that it's not easy to change the world right and if you want this really truly you need to dedicate more time more effort so I think they need to keep in mind I'm changing the world so come on I'm not I'm a girl I strong girl and I'm I'm keep doing what I'm doing doesn't matter if I'm the only one I think this is the main I can't beat that what a great way to change a world learn your code and get an education thanks for stopping by congratulations on your award congratulations on tonight too I'm sure it'll be a fun affair thank you so much absolutely so I'm Jeff Frick you're watching the Cube worth the Anita board women of vision awards in Santa Clara California thanks for watching