Parent Teacher Magazine Union County Public Schools March/April 2018 | Page 19

MIT students inspire and encourage UCPS middle school girls
Only 18.2 percent of bachelor’s
programs and summer camps. To the
degrees in computer science are
students’ delight, they also performed a
awarded to women. And only 24% of
science experiment using nothing more
all science, technology, engineering and
than a trash can, a sheet of plastic and
math (STEM) jobs are filled by women.
fog machine to create giant smoke rings.
That’s why Massachusetts Institute
“I’m interested in sci