A flower can’t bloom without a sturdy stem. The same goes for scientists but this kind of STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, has long been a boy’s club until now.
“First of all, nerdy is not bad,” said Sofia Bachert, sixth-grader at Camp Hill Middle.
Nerdy is such an old school word, anyway. “Introduce a Girl to STEM Day” at the Whitaker Center was all about the future, introducing a couple dozen fourth through eighth-graders to STEM.
“I wanna become graphic designed and I gotta know how computers work,” Sofia said.
“I really kind of want to be a game developer when I’m older,” said Camp Hill Middle sixth-grader, Samantha Tull.
We’ll desperately need these girls when they’re older.
“In certain STEM fields we found that women are actually are going into it less and less than the past. So, we’re trying to change those trends, get girls interested,” said Kelly Henderson, volunteer and development manager at the Whitaker Center.