January 2016: Engineergirl.org

Greetings! This year at HMS, we are looking for ways to focus on STEM in the classroom, but as many studies have shown, “at almost every step of the STEM education ladder, we see girls walk away. By seventh grade, many girls are ambivalent about these fields, and by the end of high school, fewer girls than boys plan to pursue STEM in college” (AAUW.org). Engineergirl.org is a website designed by the National Academy of Engineering to bring attention to and help girls envision a future career in engineering. It contains profiles of women in all different fields of engineering, short articles on “a day in the life” of women engineers, links to clubs, quizzes, etc. So have your girls check out engineergirl.org and spark their interest in a STEM career! Rosanne