GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Roughly 200 area middle school girls are getting a hands-on look at various careers Wednesday.
NWTC is holding its annual ‘Women at Work’ event, which introduces girls to the fields of biomedical electronics, masonry, robotics, prototyping, and machine tool.
“It brings them some awareness that these are careers that they may not have thought of. They are not traditionally female-oriented careers, but they are careers that women can be extremely successful at.”
NWTC Apprenticeship Manager Todd Kiel notes the girls go from station to station throughout the day, participating in interactive learning and interacting with employers.
“We try to get some female role models to run the event for us, put them in front of females that have been successful. Doctor Morna Foy is the first female president of the technical college system, and she does our keynote.”
Kiel says NWTC has seen some results from the first seven years of the ‘Women at Work’ program.
“We do see higher interest from females in some fields (in college applications). We’re not where we would like to be yet.”
The federal government has recently announced initiatives to increase female interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields.
