Not just STEAM Girls, Entrepreneur STEAM Girls!

Over the weekend, I read the book “Venture Girls” by Cristal Glangchai, PhD. Glangchai is who I want to be when I grow up. She has found a way to get girls interested in STEAM but she takes it a step further.

I have spent the last two years working to expose my female students to STEAM activities in the hopes that it will stick to some of them, and they will pursue careers in the male-dominated professions of math and engineering. Glangchai points out that hoping it sticks is not the best way to go about this. She writes about taking girls' interest in science, math, and engineering and turning them into entrepreneurs. 

Her organization, Venture Labs, takes girls as young as five and helps them to create business plans and products that solve real world problems that they see. The book gives so many examples of how girls have so much to contribute to society but are constantly being told they are not good enough. Teaching them to be entrepreneurs gives them the option to make a way for themselves instead of waiting for the world to catch up. Here's to something new for the next two years...