by Julie Hare, the Australian
Pooja Sanka went to an all-girls school, lived a traditional life that didn’t involve socialising with boys, and when she started studying computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur she was one of three women in a class of 50 men. The inevitable shyness didn’t make in-class interaction easy. But Ms Sanka has used the experience to create a free online social-interaction platform, Piazza, aimed at science, technology, engineering and maths students globally to get them talking and interacting, and getting their professor involved in using it as a teaching tool. “I was deeply inspired to solve the problems for other shy women and enable them to learn better in their science and maths classes,” Ms Sanka said.
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