{"302271":{"#nid":"302271","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Making STEM Fun","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EErin Hodge wants to be a scientist or biomedical engineer when she grows up. She\u2019s getting a preview as to what those careers would be like through a camp at Georgia Institute of Technology designed to encourage middle school girls to explore science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis week Erin and about 25 other middle school girls from Cobb County will program robots, extract DNA from strawberries, create circuits and engage in other hands-on activities. The girls also will interact with female professors and students from Georgia Tech and female leaders from GE.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the second year the campus is hosting the GE Girls at Georgia Tech summer camp. GE sponsors similar summer programs at colleges around the country.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program is just one of the many ways Georgia Tech and industry are working to encourage more women to study and pursue careers in STEM.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has awarded more engineering degrees to women than any other school since 2007. The College of Engineering will host a roundtable discussion in Washington, D.C. on June 11 about the challenges and successes in attracting more women to engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch shows girls begin to lose interest in STEM in middle school. That is the age many students begin thinking about future careers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EErin knows what she likes about science. The rising seventh-grader wore a pink T-shirt emblazoned with Buzz that read: \u201cI AM \u2026 a future scientist or engineer.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne day I know I\u2019m going to invent something no one else has discovered before,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) worked with GE on the program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to do is inspire a lifelong passion and interest in science, math and engineering,\u201d said Chris Thompson, associate director of Technology \u0026amp; Student Activities. \u201cWe want these girls to see and speak with women who have followed this path so they know it is something they can do.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOnly 4 percent of female college freshmen say they intend to major in engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe goal of the program is to foster a lasting interest in STEM among young girls in the Atlanta community, considering that women are under-represented in these fields,\u201d said Lara Siopis, a GE engineer who helped coordinate the program.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrent Georgia Tech female students are working with the middle school girls this week.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI really want to be able to influence girls to study engineering and see how exciting it is,\u201d said Michal Anna Marble, a sophomore in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering. \u201cWe have a great group of strong, smart and confident women here. 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