Dallas-area scouts pushing more than cookies in today's digital age
Girl Scouts are becoming more and more high-tech, and the introduction of?new science and technology badges is merely one of the moves the organization is taking to ignite young women's interests in the fields. Thanks to the new level of involvement in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), a couple of scouts from Dallas, Texas were inspired to come up with a mobile?app idea on their own. And they're slated to pitch it tomorrow to executives from AT&T and Alcatel-Lucent for a chance to see their idea realized.
The girls (Grace Swierenga, 12, and Lindsey Hettish, 13) call their app Teachers Best Friend, and it's designed to help educators grade tests more efficiently. Now that?smartphones and?tablets are more popular than ever, encouraging girls to come up with app ideas is a great way to get them more involved in technology.
The Girl Scout organization?actively promotes involvement in the STEM fields by holding events such as The Women of AT&T's Technology Fair?that took place?this early October. Participants (young girls, scouts or not) were persuaded to compete in a tech-oriented contest that the aforementioned Dallas girl scouts won.
AT&T also donated $1 million to the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. for its IMAGINE: Your STEM Future initiative, which is an educational curriculum full of activities relevant to the fields. It tackles a variety of topics including visual experiments like extracting DNA from a banana, all designed to introduce girls to the idea of a STEM career.
If this push toward STEM involvement continues (and we hope it will), we won't be surprised if young women come up with even more sophisticated projects. Who knows ??some of them may even leave?indelible marks in science and technology!
[Image credit:?Research Development and Engineering Command]
This article was written by Mariella Moon and originally appeared on Tecca
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