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Supermodel Karlie Kloss's Lesson to Young Women: Never Be Afraid to Ask Questions!

The Project Runway host built a coding school, Kode With Klossy, to inspire a generation of tech-savvy women. But her real mission, she says, is much broader.

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Jake Chessum

­The view is stunning up here, from the 34th floor of this downtown Manhattan office building. Outside the floor-to-­ceiling windows, the day is bright and clear. But the 24 teenage girls occupying the space are over it. Their noses are buried in MacBooks, while a soundtrack of Disney hits plays in the background. There's work to be done, after all: They're students at a nonprofit coding camp called Kode With Klossy, and today's assignment is to design and code an online photo gallery.

They're so focused on the task, in fact, that they don't notice when the camp's creator and very famous namesake walks in.

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