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Chipping away at tech

"I begged my parents to sign me up for these (computer science) classes. I think they went into debt to pay for it." — Albert Castillo, Codigo Systems | Photo: John R. Boehm

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Chipping away at tech

By: Kevin Davis August 03, 2009

When he was in the fifth grade, Albert Castillo heard about a new extracurricular activity at his school: computer science.

"I begged my parents to sign me up for these classes," Mr. Castillo, 37, recalls. "I think they went into debt to pay for it."

His parents, both Mexican immigrants, had little money and little, if any, knowledge of computers. They came here in search of work, and both took factory jobs.

Young engineers build new profile in the field

By: Kevin Davis August 03, 2009

Rick Rivera grew up in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago when it was a much rougher place, and where few of his peers showed much interest in going to school.

"Where we grew up, no one went to college," he says. "They were either in jail or in gangs or doing lots of negative things.