Finally tonight, a high school student from Holmdel is on a mission to get more girls involved with computer science and A.I..

But when 17 year old Ishani Singh didn't see any viable solutions around her, she created one by building her own artificial intelligence company from the ground up, offering free classes that have now reached more than 200 other girls in 25 states and six countries around the world.

Raven Santana has her story.

The first experience of just walking into the row and seeing everyone in my category was a boy.

It was just really, really shocking.

Ishani Singh describing what she says was life changing for her.

The 17 year old, who's a senior at high technology high school.

And Croft says after realizing she was the only female attending a science competition in 2020, one, knew she had to take matters into her own hands, which is why she created Girls Rule.

So I started Girls the way I at the end of my freshman year.

So I was around 13, 14 years old.

So I was pretty young.

It took me around a year to develop everything.

So I had slideshows, I have coding material, and I tried to prepared what I would have to say throughout all of these lectures, and I had to structure everything from like basic courses, dance courses, etc..

So that took a little bit of time to try to like bring that up from scratch.

And then I actually started teaching the classes this summer after my sophomore year.

So I had my first session during that summer and there weren't that many students there, but it was really fun.

She teaches all the AI classes, live from her bedroom and says each class lasts about an hour and a half and all of the classes are completely free.

Create a community where girls would feel safe to learn the foundations and just take their first steps in this journey because it's really a powerful tool for everyone.

Class sizes jumped from 15 and 2021 to 60 in 2024.

She now has 12 to 13.

Chapter leads that recruit and promote Girls Rule eight sessions in different states.

It now has chapters in 25 states, including California and Maine and six countries, including Kenya.

Singh, who balances this all while going to school, says she's recruited for training assistants to help her.

The kids are just to help me with these sessions, so after I go through the coding part of the lesson, the girls would go in to breakout rooms to start with the coding activity and if they need any help, the teachers are there to help run the code or debug anything and they also grade and look over the homework that the girls submit as well.

Singh says it's a way to make sure we continue to keep an eye on biased.

We need to make sure that these models don't have any implicit bias with them.

I heard one case that there is some facial recognition system and it wasn't able to recognize faces from people in minorities because the faces in the dataset were just from one demographic.

So I think it's really important to check these things.

I mean, we can only do that if we have all of these diverse voices.

She says the support from her peers, teachers and school has been overwhelming and is now looking for sponsors to provide merchandise to further promote her courses.

Her focus is now expanding her classes to make sure women are being included in the future of AI.

For NJ Spotlight News, I'm Raven Santana.