Notes for STEM Options: Career Pathways for Girls

Each year, Penn State Brandywine hosts the STEM Options: Career Pathways for Girls program. This program brings seventh grade and ninth grade girls to campus for hands-on, interactive workshops led by professional women in STEM. The campus is committed to ensuring that girls receive a positive STEM experience and get to know women in STEM at this critical age, when girls decide if they will continue to have an interest in STEM or not.

Working jointly with Dr. Jennifer Zosh in Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS), Sustainovation Club members and HDFS students came together to hand write notes of encouragement for girls to pursue their goals of a career in STEM and decorated posters to welcome the girls to campus on May 10th. With 250 7th graders coming to campus, we needed many letters! Fortunately, 122 letters were written during the lunchtime event, and the remaining letters were written the next day by students in Dr. Laura Guertin’s Earth Science courses. Faculty and staff on campus decorated envelopes for each letter.

We look forward to providing each girl that visits our campus a letter from one of our own students – hopefully, our positive words will help encourage girls to reach for the stars and pursue their dreams in STEM!

 

 

 

 


The Notes for STEM Options event in Spring 2018 supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #4 – Quality Education, Goal #5 – Gender Equality, and Goal #10 – Reduced Inequalities.