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Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart students Jamison Tarver, Lena Shadow and Sofia Varner met Priscilla Chan, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s wife and the co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, at an event for the Grace Hopper Celebration, a convention for women in technology. The Duchesne students were selected to participate because they are on Duchesne’s robotics team, which has competed in international competitions. The girls participated in a Q&A discussion with Chan, and met with her afterwards. Pictured (from left) are Debbie Meza, Priscilla Chan and Duchesne juniors Jamison Tarver, Lena Shadow and Sofia Varner. “I’ve always gotten super excited about empowering women and helping others through STEM, so being in a room filled with incredible, inspirational people who thought the same way felt like a dream,” Sofia said. “The main thing that I learned from the event was how important it is to go and talk to people and ask questions if it matters to me, even if it means stepping out of my comfort zone a little.”

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