This International Women’s Day, DOE highlights the need for more girls and women in STEM.
Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy
March 7, 2022
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Imagination fuels innovation, and children have great imaginations. That’s why introducing kids to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is so important: It expands their ideas of what’s possible, supports their creativity with knowledge, and can lead to groundbreaking discoveries and technologies. STEM can set kids on a career path that can change the world, and with STEM Rising, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) provides resources to support them.
This International Women’s Day, we highlight the need for more girls and women in STEM. Recently, DOE reached out to some students to get them engaged in STEM fields. Leadership from DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) answered questions from students ages 3-17 in Tennessee and New York to help them realize the potential and the possibilities STEM education and careers can bring.
The students asked a range of questions, such as why the sun is hot, how fast a windmill goes, and whether their visitors had female role models. They got answers and inspiration in return. Watch the video below.