FOX 13 Salt Lake City – Staff Writer
“STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) is a big buzzword in education now, especially with girls. Why? According to the National Girls Collaborative Project, girls and boys have similar abilities in math and science, but males are three times more likely to be interested in STEM majors and careers.1 Women only earn 18% of engineering degrees compared to 82% of men. We asked females working at the tech company IM Flash what advice they would give to girls who are trying to figure out what field to study. IM Flash, based in Lehi, Utah, makes memory and recruits engineers and technicians from all over the world to help make their chips.”(more)