MIT
scientists created a
dance party kit to get
girls interested in STEM
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According to a
U.S. News & World report in 2015, women were still highly underrepresented in the
STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. Women made up only 39 percent of chemists and material scientists, 28 percent of environmental
scientists and geoscientists, 16 percent of chemical engineers, and a staggeringly low 12 percent of civil engineers.*
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MIT
scientists Maria Yang and Tony Hu founded
Brainy Yak Labs to help boost those numbers by encouraging more young
girls that math, science, engineering can be fun and creative. Their first product is a
dance party toy called Jubilite.
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