Mission Bit
Harika Raj is a skilled Data Analyst at CIPIO.ai where responsibilities include implementing APIs for text-to-speech conversion and developing an image search website. Involved with the Association of Women in EE&CS, Harika serves as a Professional Development Committee Officer, facilitating career development events. As a Network Engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, technical support and network infrastructure maintenance are key tasks. Previous experience includes a role as a Full Stack Engineer at Papaya, focusing on user interface development and AI recommendation systems, and project leadership in the SchedulerPro initiative, utilizing AI/ML for schedule optimization. In addition, Harika has contributed as a CS61A Academic Intern and an Instructor's Assistant at Mission Bit, providing educational support in programming and AI. Education includes studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and previous institutions such as Diablo Valley College and Dougherty Valley High School.
Mission Bit
Mission Bit strives to eliminate the tech divide for youth living in urban poverty and rural areas across the San Francisco Bay Area by building computer programming and professional opportunity pathways for public school students. They provide everything the students need, they just need to show up and be eager to learn. No prior experiencerequired.They give students the opportunity to learn directly from successful engineers and entrepreneurs who enjoy sharing knowledge. They're focused on project-based learning and aim to teach both core computer science concepts as well as the practical skills and technologies that are required to build web sites and applications today.Throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, 100,000 high school students lack access to computer science classes at their schools, according to a study consulting firm Inspire conducted on behalf of Mission Bit. By 2020, Mission Bit hopes to serve 10,000 students in the area, specifically focusing on black and Latinx students, as well as students on free/reduced price lunch programs.