User:FardosM

Fardos Mohamed was born on May 20, 1992 in Mogadishu, Somalia. The fifth child out of seven. Her father Fuad Ali Mohamed was an Import/Export coordinator. Her mother, Fadumo Mohamed was a housewife. Growing up in Somalia, Fardos was mainly taught how to read and write in Arabic and the teachings of her religion (Islam). Her family moved to the United States of America in 1999 because of the civil war in Somalia. Living in Alabama, Fardos grew up learning about the American cultures and accustomed to it. While living in Alabama, Her Family wanted to move to a city were the Muslim population was greater than Mobile, Alabama. Moving to Seattle Fardos became more engaged in technology and developed passion for it. During her senior year in high school, she decided to apply to the University of Washington with Engineering as her intended major. During her first couple years of school, Fardos took engineering prerequisites and was planning on applying to her engineering department by her junior year. During that time she decided that she wanted to have more interaction with people and not work with machines and computers the whole time and that's when she learned about Information school. To her the Information School had both aspects: Technology and human interaction. Fardos is currently working with the office of minority to recruit more minority students into the STEM programs as well as WISE (Women In Scienes and Engineering).