A mentoring programme to spark girls’ interest in STEM

In Israel, as in most countries, the number of girls who choose to study STEM subjects in high school is still too low, and the number of women occupying leadership positions in academia and tech companies even more so. Neta Blum, a mechanical engineer who founded a programme to inspire female high-school students to choose a path in STEM, argues that mentoring is key to empower the next generation of female scientists and engineers.

In 2017, I founded AT, a programme that encourages young girls all over Israel to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). In Hebrew, AT means ‘you’ in the female form, and the name means that this programme is for you, a young girl in high school. You are the focus of this programme. You are the programme.

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