As
reported by pretty much every news outlet possible, Girl Scouts rocked the 2015
White House Science Fair. If you missed it, check out this awesome video via Mashable.
Girl
Scouts were represented by “The Supergirls,” a team of six-year old Girl Scout
Daisies from Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma who invented a battery-powered
page turner for people with arthritis, people who are paralyzed, or “people who
have no arms”; and Lauren Prox, a Girl Scout Gold Award recipient whose project
“Reaching New Altitudes” aims to reverse the small percentage of minorities and
females participating in the fields of aviation and STEM.
The
White House even tweeted about it!
But
why is this work so important to Girl Scouts? According to Generation STEM: What Girls Say about Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Math, girls are aware that gender barriers persist: 57 percent say that
if they were to go into a STEM career, they’d “have to work harder than a man
to be taken seriously.”
And
they’re right. Girls will still have to struggle with inequalities between the
sexes. Girl Scouts is committed to doing something about this.
Along
the way, our goal is to help millions of highly qualified young women launch
and sustain careers in any field that attracts them, overcome barriers that
confront them, and enter the ranks of senior leadership and thrive there. It’s
what our country needs.