Rapid City, SD – More than 800 seventh -grade girls attended the science conference annually women and heard from several professional women about STEM -based career opportunities.
“Women must be included in science to help solve the problems affected by our world.
“I think what I am talking about today is very important because it provides many, many, literally thousands of opportunities to help scientists find solutions to these problems, which really really requires all hands on the deck,” said Cavelier.
Rapid City Area School District, American Horse School, Castor, Douglas, Pine Ridge, St. Thomas Moore, and other schools from seventh grade girls and other schools attended the event.
Julie Dahl, a science education expert at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, introduced girls to the deep underground neutrino experience in South Dakota.
“It is important that young people are in front of science,” he said.
“And as a seventh -grade girl, it is really important to see the science around you, and how you can support it, even if you choose not to be a scientist, knowing what is happening around you and finding interest in it is enough to find interest.”
Statistics show that women are somewhat presented in a STEM carrier due to lack of initial exposure to men’s influence. Speakers said Tuesday that affecting the next generation of young women about STEM career could play an important role in eliminating this gender disparity.
“If you are not interested in STEM, support women in STEM, and if you are interested in STEM, I’m telling them that you are not in the room, because you are not involved in the room,” said News Center 1 meteorologist Sam Johnson.
The conference was hosted by the Youth Science Rapid City and was jointly organized by science and engineering among the women of Mine.
Jerry Stanley has been in most Black Hills in her life and calls Rapid City a home. He obtained a journalism degree with a minor in Political Science from Metropolitan State University in Denver in 1994.
