Raleigh workshop drives to make tech interesting to girls
RALEIGH (WTVD) -- On Thursday, the Boys and Girls Club of Wake County invited middle school girls to the Tech Girls Rock event to bring science and engineering to life.
Men largely outnumber women in the industries of science, technology, engineering, and math.
Studies show girls lose interest in those subjects as early as age eight.
The girls practiced engineering and learned how to code. Coding is what creates computer software, apps, and websites.
"If you're coding, you can put yourself in control and program things," said Sa'Daiziah Artis, a student.
At the event, girls connected to technology in a way that's interesting to them.
"Most girls don't get too jazzed about science, tech, engineering, and math," said Lisa Brighton, the organizer of Tech Girls Rock. "They think it's a boys' subject. So we're showing them today that it's really cool, fun, and it'll end up making a really nice career path for them later on."
Women who work in those fields were also there so the girls could speak with real-life engineers and scientists.
"We hope the girls leave the workshop excited about science, engineering, technology, and math and they know it's something they see themselves later in life doing," said Brighton.
The organizers of Thursday's event know if they can empower these girls to explore information technology, they can go on and do anything.
"Things we could do as a girl...we could take over the world!" Artis said.
These workshops are happening in cities around the country. There is a real push to get more girls interested in information technology.
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