Salisbury University hosts STEM events to encourage women to prep for STEM careers

At Salisbury University, two events were held February 10, 2017, called Start Now! to prepare students for STEM careers.

The events were held in order to encourage female students who are under-represented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

The first event had over 200 high school girls come to learn more about these STEM careers.

The second event had college students learn more about applying and attending graduate schools.

In the past. they used to host this event, but weren't able to do so recently due to funding.

But now this year, they finally received the funds to host the event again.

47 ABC spoke to the Dean of Henson School and Technology, Karen Olmstead, as she gives advice to those wanting to be in the STEM field, "We want people to get in the mind frame of always kind of keep your door open by taking the most challenging classes they can maybe building. One thing one of the speakers said this morning was talking about well rounding yourself taking many opportunities you can so that when you look at careers, you look at graduate school and employers look at you, you have a lot of skills that you can provide to them."