Melinda Gates Instagram – I owe a big part of my love of computers to my high school math teacher Mrs. Bauer. Right before I started my senior year of high school, she convinced our principal to buy five Apple II computers after seeing them at a math conference. Of course, we didn’t know how to use them yet, but Mrs. Bauer had thought of that already. She told our principal, “If you buy them, I’ll learn how to teach them.” And she did. Mrs. Bauer spent her own time and money studying computer science at night so she could teach it to us during the day. She was the first advocate for women in tech I ever knew, and every student deserves a teacher like her. Today, on International Day of Women and Girls in Science, learn how @pivotal_ventures’ partners are opening opportunities for the next generation of women and girls in tech—the same way Mrs. Bauer once did for my classmates and me. Link in my bio.