How do you encourage STEM, Tinkering, and Innovation with your family, students, or girlfriends?
NPR's Tell Me More learns different ways parents can integrate
science and tech into their families from math professor Rachel Levy,
her daughter Mimi Kome, and educational technologist Iman Saint Jean.
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NPR Interview
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News.
They say it takes a village to raise a child, but
maybe you just need a few moms and dads in your corner. Every week, we
check in with a diverse group of parents for their common sense and
savvy advice. This March for Women's History Month, we've been talking
with women innovators, entrepreneurs and educators in the STEM fields.
Once again, that's science, technology, engineering and math.
It's
for our Women in Tech series. And feel free to dip in to that anytime
you like at #NPRWIT. Now we've been asking people why women continue to
be underrepresented in these fields and what can be done with it. Now,
of course, people disagree about whether it's self-selection that takes
girls and women out of STEM or whether they are pushed out. But one
thing just about everybody seems to agree on is to get more women and
girls involved, you have to start early. But how do you do that?
We
wanted to talk about this so we've called Rachel Levy. She is an
associate professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College in California.
She founded the blog "Grandma Got STEM." And she's a mom of two. One of
those two is her 17-year-old daughter Mimi Kome, who is also with us.
Mimi is a senior at Claremont High School who plans to study
engineering. And Iman Saint Jean is an educational technologist and
founder of the Help Circle app. She's a mom of two daughters as well.
Welcome to you all. Thank you all so much for joining us.
