A McMaster engineering student has won an important award from the Anita Borg Institute, a women-in-tech organization in the United States.

“I was in tears when I found out that I won the award,” said Alyssia Jovellanos, who is in her second year in the engineering department’s computer science program.

Jovellanos is the first female president of McMaster’s Computer Science Society and spends her summers and spare time teaching code to hundreds of grade school kids through a Comp Science outreach program.