“It’s been pretty exciting,” Brady said. “I wasn’t expecting that.”
Organizers say programs like this give young women the incentive to pursue male-dominated science and technology fields.
The girls day was filled with hands-on activities about the use digital cameras and computer software.
“Um, oh! We went on the webcams over there, and we learned how to, we drew on white boards on the computer and we talked to our friends,” Brady said. “That was fun!”
Webcams were an across-the-board favorite, and they even brought a few surprises.
“Yeah, that you could actually use it worldwide,” said Carriann Gerchak, an eighth grader at Garfield Heights Middle School. “I thought you could only use it for certain things, like talking to a friend in the same city a couple houses down. I didn’t know it was worldwide. I didn’t know you could talk to someone in another country on it.
Gerchak said though she’s uncertain if a technology career is for her, it brings a little bit of security.
“I want to be a veterinarian,” she said. “No, it really hasn’t changed my mind. I’ll always want to be a vet. But it’s added to what I could do, if it doesn’t work out.”