Girls Night In 2018
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
NARRATOR: So what did you want to be when you grow up?
EMMA: I do not know yet.
I was thinking packaging engineering and industrial design
but, that's where I am right now. So, undecided at the moment.
[music]
CHRISTYL JOHNSON: So we've invited over 50 girls to come out to our center
to get an immersive and intense exposure to STEM. I'm really interested in reaching out to
those girls who've pretty much given up on their ability to be able to do STEM.
So I wasn't looking for the A and B students. I was looking for students who maybe
struggled a little bit in the sciences and in math and engineering, those types of concepts,
so that we could kind of show them what STEM really is like:
The day in the life of an engineer.
ROSE: We had an announcement come on in our school, and
we're of the few classes that actually listens to the announcements so
yeah so it was I thought it was really cool
I thought it'd be a neat opportunity.
MARIANA: I really liked when we talked about the ways that
different NASA technologies are integrated into real-world applications, like different ways that --
I didn't know that NASA could be applied to so many different things,
but now I know that that's actually in the world a lot.
AMY McADAM: The encouragement of young women in STEM is important to me.
I was encouraged, you know, many steps along the way in my career,
and so any part I could play in that for other people is important to me.
ASTRONAUT JEANETTE EPPS: ... modules; we pump oxygen in ...
"So, Rose Paddock is our mechanical engineer. Lexie ..."
ROSE: I thought like,
what, before when I was coming here, I didn't really think that
women in STEM is such a big issue. I knew that, yes, the movement is
happening and it's becoming more equal -- yay!
But I didn't know it was such a big thing.
I don't think I really understood the expanse of it.
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[satellite beeps]