Ask Bianca Lewis if she likes coding and she’ll tell you right away: Yes, especially Python and Arduino, but she hopes to one day dominate Ruby and C.

There’s no rush, though: At just 12 years old, she has plenty of time.

We caught up with Bianca, an energetic girl from New Jersey who’s passionate about STEAM and goes by BiaSciLab online, at a recent event featuring Girls Who Code CEO Reshma Saujani in an Old City hotel. Just outside the venue doors, as the event wrapped up and attendees lined up for autographs, Bianca was striking a similar note as Saujani: The inequities in tech make no sense, and they need to be squashed at an early age.

“I still don’t quite understand why men are the people who started everything,” she said. “Why did it end up being men striving for power?”

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