Thursday, April 14, 2016

WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL eighth-grade girls enjoy speaker at Exploration 2016

In late March, 22 eighth-grade girls from West Middle School attended Kingswood Middle School for “Explorathon 2016.”

The girls heard from several successful women from a variety of STEM careers.  The keynote speaker was Dr. Thoms.  She explained that although she was only one of three women in her medical school class, she continued to reach her dreams and goals.  
     
The students also attended workshops on many interesting topics, such as plastics, physical therapy, engineering, veterinary science, chemistry and mathematics.  
     
This was an amazing opportunity to raise career awareness.  To interact with women and girls from all walks of life was invaluable. As one of our students remarked "It was inspiring to meet so many strong, smart, women."


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