Check out the STEM-robotics articles below that have appeared in the news recently. These articles reinforce our mission and the importance of preparing young women for future careers in STEM fields.
This camp at a Northern Virginia university shows girls a future in STEM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ Education Ann-Audrey Ezi, at left, gets a high-five from Amber Smith-St. Louis of the Norfolk Navy Shipyard after Ezi's floating aluminum foil structure held the most marbles before sinking during a naval engineering session in an...
Women & STEM: It’s Not Just a Numbers Problem
https://belonging.berkeley.edu/ Women have been problem solvers as long as women have existed. The representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and math fields—known as STEM—is a problem that not only has not been...
Can Robots Help Get More Girls Into Science and Tech?
Fuente https://www.wired.com/ Toys are a powerful way to teach kids how to engineer and code. And they way they're targeted has important effects. HERE’S A DEPRESSING number for you: 12. Just 12 percent of engineers in the United States are women. In...
How I became captain of the winning all-girls Afghan robotics team
By Fatemah Qaderyan Teen robotics champ fights to empower Afghan girls 03:19 Fatemah Qaderyan is the captain of Afghanistan's all-girl robotics team. She gave a talk last month at the Human Rights Foundation's Oslo Freedom Forum in New York about the...
These girls have built robots since they were toddlers. Now they’re competing on a world stage.
By Maia Silber/ July 16, 2017/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ From left, Katie Johnson, Sanjna Ravichandar and Colleen Johnson sit with their robot while watching the FIRST Global competition at DAR Constitution Hall. (April Greer/For The...
News STEM- Robotics
Stereotypes and cultural norms dampen girls’ interest in STEM, but educators can counter the disparities with small changes to their practice. In several studies, when children were asked to draw a mathematician or scientist, girls were twice as...
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