{"id":71657,"date":"2022-02-21T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=71657"},"modified":"2022-02-23T09:46:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:46:50","slug":"introduce-a-girl-to-engineering-day-to-inspire-stem-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_21_2022\/introduce-a-girl-to-engineering-day-to-inspire-stem-careers","title":{"rendered":"Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day to Inspire STEM Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Returning for the fifth year, The University of Toledo College of Engineering\u2019s award-winning Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day will welcome 750 seventh and eighth grade girls to campus.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally a one-day event during National Engineers Week, this year organizers switched it to three days to better manage the growth in 2022 and inspire the next generation of women in engineering.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71659\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Introduce-a-girl-to-engineering-SIDE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71659\" class=\"wp-image-71659\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Introduce-a-girl-to-engineering-SIDE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Introduce-a-girl-to-engineering-SIDE.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Introduce-a-girl-to-engineering-SIDE-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-71659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Returning for the fifth year, the College of Engineering\u2019s award-winning Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day will welcome 750 seventh and eighth grade girls to campus.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Girls will work with women engineers from local companies and engineering students on a variety of hands-on activities to better understand water treatment, transportation network designs, basic coding and programming, structural design principles, mechanics of propulsion, genetic engineering and cyber security.<\/p>\n<p>UToledo\u2019s Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day has twice won the National Women in Engineering Action Committee\u2019s Girls Day Event of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p>Since the program began, more than 2,500 girls from 32 school districts across northern Ohio have participated in the event at UToledo along with more than 30 companies, 10 student organizations and individuals from multiple professional leadership groups throughout the region.<\/p>\n<p>Studies have found that girls tend to lose confidence in math and science and lose interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in early adolescence, so the event targets girls in middle school and connects them with role models.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy creating programs that show individuals that they are not alone in their interest in science and technology, while also giving them examples of individuals who have succeeded in their own careers in the industry, we believe we can help reinforce that interest in the STEM fields during a stage in their lives that studies have shown it to wane,\u201d said Bryan Bosch, manager of diversity, inclusion and community engagement initiatives in the UToledo College of Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is\u00a0to\u00a0create\u00a0an environment where we can build interest in the field for\u00a0any young person, while developing programs that can nurture\u00a0and grow that interest into\u00a0a\u00a0career for\u00a0anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_21_2022\/introduce-a-girl-to-engineering-day-to-inspire-stem-careers\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" 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