engineering for females

boneh3ad
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 23:17:53 +0000

Writing activities are considerably cheaper and more widespread than STEM opportunities. An inner city school with chronically paltry funding, for example, can’t afford a nice robotics lab, but they do generally have paper, pencils, and some kind of computer lab. For the record, chronically underfunded schools are far more common in this country than chronically well-funded schools. There is a real opportunity gap for things like STEM ECs in high schools.

Meanwhile, it sounds great in practice to say that a kid should justify their choice of major based on more than just “sounds interesting,” but many who try can’t be all that sincere about it since most people that age simply don’t have their future plans sorted out to that degree yet. It’s great to say “I have done research at X local university and taken Y dual enrollment courses there and my mom has worked at Microsoft for Z years and has cultivated a real interest in coding in me, which I’ve turned into N new smartphone apps!” However, the overwhelming majority of 17 year olds are entering their first semester of senior year and still asking “what is engineering?”