Middle school girls gather for Girls in Sciences event
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — More than 100 girls spent their Saturday getting hands-on experience in the medical and healthcare fields.
Seventh and eighth graders converged on Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine for a “Girls in Sciences” event.
The girls from northeastern Pennsylvania and Atlantic City broke into groups for a variety of workshops.
They got to experience such fields as environmental science, microbiology, and nursing.
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“Young girls they’re usually exposed to the very surface level of careers but when you think about careers in STEM, most girls think about doctors or nurses, it’s so important to open their eyes because there’s so much more to medicine than being a doctor or nurse,” stated Lavinia Harrison program manager from Pathway Programs Department.
“I look up to nurses a little bit because they help people so that’s why I wanted to become something in the medical field,” Markeyia Blue from Atlantic City.
Women who are medical students, healthcare professionals, and from higher education hosted the various stations at the “Girls in Sciences” event in Scranton.
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