SmartBlog on Education – Melissa Greenwood
“One moment can change everything. “A large percentage of girls who chose a STEM career did so because of just one thing, one person or one event,” Nepris CEO Sabari Raja said during a SmartBrief Equity in STEM event. “It does not take years and years of convincing.”…Aerospace educator Barbara Gruber shared during her event presentation how makerspaces also can help create moments of inspiration…“One of the things that we have done with makerspaces in Loudoun is put makerspaces in the library, which is a special place that kids go to every week,” Gruber said, “…having that visibility of projects that other kids are working on…certainly grabs kids’ attention…””(more)