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Many students are first-generation immigrants from a middle class background.
In recent years, a few staff members have made a special effort to spark young girls' interest in computers at school. While not wanting to ignore the boys among the 900 students that attend Alvarado, media specialists Sharon Chambers and Cathy Hampton decided the girls needed their own time to discover what they were capable of accomplishing. The research shows that girls often don't move into technology fields. Road Ahead grants are funded by the profits from Microsoft CEO Bill Gates' autobiography of the same title. He intended these funds to further educational programs and chose the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education to be the distributor of these monies.