Samantha Dahlby said she “lucked into” discovering a career in software engineering after a high school teacher noticed her affinity for math and science. Today, she works as the K-12 education coordinator at the New Bohemian Innovation Collaborative, also known as NewBoCo, in Cedar Rapids, where she works with Iowa students and educators to integrate computer sciences into a school’s curriculum.Dahlby grew up in Waterloo and attended Waterloo East High School, where, she said, computing and technology classes were limited.“When I was a student, I did not have any computer science classes,” she said.

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