GTCC FAME program hosts bridge-building competition for middle school girls
Published on: December 5, 2024
Third-place winner Quinerly Sheppard (Guilford County Schools/Northeast Middle), first-place winner Sofia Britt (Guilford County Schools/Mendenhall Middle), second-place winner Madison Hicks (Asheboro City School/Asheboro Middle), and winner for the most unique bridge design Siara Ghamrawy (Guilford County School/Brown Summit Middle).
It is often hard to get females into the STEM program, according to Jerry Ivey, who works for Toyota Battery N.C., one of the sponsor companies of NCFAME, a program designed for students to go to college for two years while getting on-the-job training at a sponsoring company.
“A lot of the reason for that is that they lose interest in it somewhere in middle school,” Ivey said. “We decided we wanted to target that crowd to spur ... reignite that interest they had in STEM.”
Originally published on Yes! Weekly's website (yesweekly.com).
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