For a second semester, Maddy Butzbach is mentoring our ideaSpark team at the UT Dallas Arts & Technology building.
A recent Cornell grad, Maddy is originally from California and is currently a Technical Account Manager at Microsoft.
Mentor Profile: Meet Lucinda
Mentor Profile: Meet Farida
Mentor Profile: Meet Sara
We met Sara last October when Bold Idea and Women Who Compute of UT Dallas collaborated on a computer science workshop for girls. Now, we're happy to have Sara on our mentoring team, working with 11–14 year olds at our UT Dallas Arts & Technology location.
Mentor Profile: Meet Karthik
Now in his third semester as a Bold Idea mentor, Karthik Velayutham mentors a small team of 13–15 year olds at the Frisco Athletic Center, who are just a few years younger than him.
Karthik is a Senior at Plano East Senior High School. With years of experience as a self- and school-taught programmer, he has his sights set on studying computer science in college.