US teen establishes STEM club for girls

The hollow thud of heavy wooden doors echoed throughout the lecture hall as dozens of eyes turned to meet Alice Hou's. She wondered if she'd walked into the wrong room.

Hou was not afraid to be the center of attention - she had performed traditional Chinese dance on stage and won the 2017 title of Miss Arlington's Outstanding Teen. But the 16-year-old remembers how alienated she felt when she walked into her first computer science lecture earlier this year, one of only 11 women in a class of 100.

It was a familiar feeling for Alice, a high school senior at the Texas Academy of Mathematics & Science at the University of North Texas.