GAMES camps draw girls to the STEM pipeline...and engineering

7/17/2015

Just about everyone who helped run this summer’s eight, week-long GAMES  (Girls’ Adventures in Mathematics, Engineering, and Science) camps this summer would unashamedly admit hoping to influence the 199 high school girls who attended to choose engineering as a career—and to come to Illinois to learn all about it. And GAMES appears to have a pretty good track record of doing just that, because several Illinois students who served as lab assistants/counselors this summer attended GAMES themselves and admit that it impacted their decision to go into engineering.

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This story was published July 17, 2015.