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Robots that demonstrate Chinese tai chi and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence have launched students like Jane Wu into computer science.
这些机器人向我们展示了中国太极以及人类在人工智能上的突破，它们将像吴珍妮这样的学生引进了计算机科学的大门。
"I think the moment for me was during my freshman robotics elective that I took, called Autonomous Vehicles. And in that class we got to make our own autonomous robots from scratch."
"我开始对机器人产生兴趣是在大一的机器人选修课上，那门课叫做自动驾驶。也就是在那节课上，我们有机会从头开始制作自动机器人。"
Harvey Mudd College, with just 800 students, and is part of an educational cluster called The Claremont Colleges, and it stresses engineering. It is also a leader in breaking down barriers to women and computer science which started for one student with an introductory class in computer coding.
哈维玛德学院一共只有800名学生，作为克莱蒙学院联盟的一部分，学校比较偏重工程。哈维玛德学院也是打破女性与计算机科学之间障碍的领军者，为学生开办计算机编程入门课程。
"It was a very balanced class. And I think the professors also do a very good job of making sure everyone feels welcome, regardless of their coding ability."
"那堂课的性格分布很均衡。而且我觉得教授们做得很好的一点在于，他们能让所有上课的学生感觉到受欢迎，而不因学生们编程能力的高低区别对待。"
Women were pioneers in the early days of computers when Grace Hopper, who was later a U.S. Navy rear admiral, helped invent programming languages.
女性在早期使用计算机的那段时间曾一直是先驱者，而当时Grace Hopper，也就是后来的美国海军少将，在发明程序设计语言时也贡献出了自己的一份力量。
"So she is the original coder. And I think it was only kind of in later decades, the 80s and 90s, that computer games and kind of the idea of computer programming kind of got heavily marketed toward boys rather than girls."
"所以说她是最早的程序员。而且在我看来，一直到后来的几十年，也就是八九十年代时，电脑游戏和计算机编程的想法才被大量灌输给男孩子而非女孩子。"
Now many young women are rediscovering program.
而如今，开始学习编程的年轻女性却不在少数。
"With coding, I can just have my computer, have some programming language I'm working in, and I can make almost whatever I want."
"学习了编程之后，我可以只用一台电脑，做出一些可使用的编程语言，而且我现在想要什么样的编程都可以自己做。"
Internships in industry are part of the training, student Samantha Andow is heading to Microsoft this summer.
进入行业内实习也是培训的一部分。目前还是学生的Samantha Andow今年夏天就要去微软实习了。
"I'm really excited to see all the problems that computer science is working on right now."
"看到现在计算机科学正在解决的所有问题，我真的特别兴奋。"
With all the best and the brightest on the keyboard, regardless of gender.
在计算机科学领域，只识优秀聪颖者，决不以性别论英雄。
"We're not going to get as good solutions, as much progress as we need on the problems facing the world, whether it's climate change or education, health care."
"否则，我们将无法找到圆满的解决方案或取得重大进步，以应对当今世界所面临的一系列问题，诸如气候变化、教育以及医疗保健。"
But college president Maria Klawe says today's problems require the creativity that diversity brings.
不过校长Maria Klawe却说，要解决我们如今遇到的问题，还是需要用到多样性带来的创造力。
