<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/three-high-school-students-posing-with-their-individual-award-plaques-next-to-a-middle-aged-white-woman.jpg?id=67634200&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C156%2C0%2C157"/><br/><br/><p>About 16 percent of the global population—more than 1 billion p