The world needs more girls like Emily Oleisky. Specifically, the world of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) needs more girls like her. Emily, a 17-year-old junior at Garrison Forest School, is one of just 35 female high school students (out of 2,700 competing nationwide) to win the prestigious award, “Aspirations in Computing,” from the National Center for Women and Information Technology. The award recognizes winners for their leadership and potential in computer science and rewards them with $500, a new laptop, and some phenomenal networking opportunities with women in the computer science field. For Emily, this means she is on pace to buck some pretty woeful statistics related to females and STEM. In 1970, a tiny seven percent of the entire STEM workforce was comprised of females. That figure jumped to a more respectable 23 percent by 1990, but stalled at 26 percent by 2011, according to U.S. Census Bureau data—despite a push… Read More
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