Wednesday 1 February 2017

Schools recruit girls in underrepresented STEM classes

by Associated Press

Teayanna Leytham wants to make the world a better place. The Thomas Jefferson senior has her sights set on improving air quality and she plans on using her computer science skills to do it. In a time when girls and women remain significantly underrepresented in fields like computer science and engineering, Leytham is one example of a student working to challenge the stigma that the field of computer science is male-dominated. “I always really loved STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) throughout high school,” Leytham said. “Over the summer, I realized I wanted to have a job in science but I wasn’t sure what that was going to be yet exactly.”

http://www.ccenterdispatch.com/news/state/article_6c81f034-a268-55a1-b1cf-efdd62178d74.html

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