STEM

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math

STEM helps students develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration skills that are useful in all careers and life pursuits. But despite recent increases in women's and girls' participation in certain STEM fields, significant gaps remain.

For example, female undergraduates earn just

• 40% of earth, atmospheric, ocean, and physical sciences degrees
• 25% of math and computer science degrees
• 20% of engineering degrees

This gap begins early. Girls enter kindergarten as interested in math and science as boys are, but many begin to lose interest in science by the fifth grade and math by the sixth grade.

STEM is an ongoing contemporary initiative. We are conducting programs that show girls that science can be fun and hands-on with real world applications.